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Google’s AI Overviews are out of control (stackdiary.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah. My mother is getting phishing emails and genuinely believes that Nancy Pelosi is sending her emails asking for monetary support. We’re not even American. Like, not even the same continent.

Not everyone is as critical as they ought to be when reading stuff on the internet. It doesn’t help that LLMs have a tendency to state things confidently or matter-of-factly.

People not familiar with the tech will read it and take it at face value, ignoring the “this is AI generated and might be wrong” because that sounds too technological to some people that their brain doesn’t even process it.