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Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination (gizmodo.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Google rolled out AI overviews across the United States this month, exposing its flagship product to the hallucinations of large language models.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

It's a really bad term because it's usually associated with a mind, and LLMs are nothing of the sort.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

So is bullshitting. More so, only human minds can bullshit.

We anthropomorphize machines all the time, it's fine.

I'd prefer we'd start calling all genai output hallucinations again. It used to be like 10 years ago, but somewhere along the line marketing decided hallucinated truths aren't "hallucinations".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

So is bullshitting. More so, only human minds can bullshit.

And a bull's anus.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

We anthropomorphize machines all the time, it's fine.

It's fucking not, amd I'm not changing my mind about it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Anthropomorphication is hard to avoid in AI.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Many worthy things are difficult.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But is anthropomorphism of AI particularly worrying?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

It is when the people tends to give more credence to entities that appear sentient and to have agency.