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  • When AI Overview was in beta in May 2023, it was really bad. Infamous example:

    People milked it for memes. But at some point, Google fixed it, so to keep farming engagement, people had to start making fake screenshots and pretended that they were real.

    And it’s really easy to fake:


  • glibg10b@lemmy.ziptoFunny@sh.itjust.worksThanks Google
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    25 days ago

    Have you interacted with AI in the past two years?

    Of course LLMs are capable of generating factual information. An LLM wouldn’t lie if you asked “is the earth round?”. But an LLM won’t generate factual information every time, because as much as the technology is getting hyped up, it’s still quite limited and probably will be for the foreseeable future.

    But when the answer is obvious and well-known, they are good enough. Just pop OP’s question into any chatbot. They all, including Google’s AI overview, give “no” here.

    A state-of-the-art glorified autocorrect will not send “Absolutely!” as the first few tokens after “can cockroaches live in your penis”. That’s GPT-2 level stuff.

    I agree with your last point about Google Search’s decline.



  • glibg10b@lemmy.ziptomemes@lemmy.worldFucker
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    1 month ago

    The difference is that microwaves instantly penetrate about an inch deep while heat from an oven takes time to flow there from the outer shell. With an oven, the heating power is concentrated on the outer skin, and some of it is wasted through convection