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

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

  • Nualkris@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    1 month ago

    Why does search need to be AI? I’ve had no problems finding any information I wanted under the former process.

      • kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        Can I super-mega-ultra upvote this?

        It’s the same playbook as ever. Doubt can only be explained by ignorance, failure can only be explained by under-committing,

        The only way to have a “valid” opinion is to have already bought-in and be actively selling other people on it. It’s the same mentality as a cult or a pyramid scheme.

    • Bogasse@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      I think it’s been a long time since digital companies tried to solve actual problems.

    • gcheliotis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      It’s become more efficient to get basic info on virtually any topic by just asking an LLM like ChatGPT and that could be a serious threat to Google Search. People might form the habit of asking AIs for everything and then go to Google Search only when they want to dig deeper / find relevant articles etc. So I assume they added their own AI right into Search in an effort to continue being the first (and perhaps only) place one goes to for information.