Google's new AI Overview has encouraged people to eat rocks, glue their pizza, and other incredibly stupid results
  • Nobody@lemmy.worldEnglish
    571·
    5 months ago

    Ben Collins, one of the new owners of our former sister site, pointed out some of AI Overview’s most egregious errors on his social media. Asked “how many rocks should I eat each day,” Overview said that geologists recommend eating “at least one small rock a day.” That language was of course pulled almost word-for-word from a 2021 Onion headline. Another search, “what color highlighters do the CIA use,” prompted Overview to answer “black,” which was an Onion joke from 2005.

    Might want to read the article before commenting.

    • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      745·
      5 months ago

      Fair point. But, when the article image makes it look like trash-talk, I’m not compelled to read the article. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      • aStonedSanta@lemm.eeEnglish
        382·
        5 months ago

        How are you going to be a productive part of the conversation without reading the article? Just wasting everyone’s time.

        • Zidane@lemmy.worldEnglish
          131·
          5 months ago

          Wait a second all these years I’ve been on Reddit/Lemmy and I was supposed to actually read the articles??? Nah mate I can’t be wrong

      • breakingcups@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        5 months ago

        Surely an article’s image could never be used to innocuously illustrate the main subjects of the article?

      • Susaga@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        81·
        5 months ago

        But you will trash talk it, it seems. Odd that trash talk is only okay when you do it.

      • Crackhappy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        5 months ago

        I’m not sure that Lemmy is a good place for you. Reddit is probably better suited for you.