Google rolled out AI overviews across the United States this month, exposing its flagship product to the hallucinations of large language models.

  • moistclump@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Tinfoil hat time. Do you think Google intended this to work well? Or are we talking a lot more about Google and LLMs than we would have otherwise?

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      5 months ago

      I defer to hubris in most of these cases.

      I am guessing that the people who made the decision to train on Reddit had no idea what type of place Reddit actually was just a short time ago. Maybe they heard of Reddit, maybe they noticed how useful Reddit was in search results, maybe they browsed Reddit and only saw the facade; what they definitely didn’t do is be a Redditor for years.

      Any Redditor on that team either kept their mouth shut because how funny the end result would be or was ignored.