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17 cringe-worthy Google AI answers demonstrate the problem with training on the entire web (www.tomshardware.com)

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

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These are 17 of the worst, most cringeworthy Google AI overview answers:

Eating Boogers Boosts the Immune System?
Use Your Name and Birthday for a Memorable Password
Training Data is Fair Use
Wrong Motherboard
Which USB is Fastest?
Home Remedies for Appendicitis
Can I Use Gasoline in a Recipe?
Glue Your Cheese to the Pizza
How Many Rocks to Eat
Health Benefits of Tobacco or Chewing Tobacco
Benefits of Nuclear War, Human Sacrifice and Infanticide
Pros and Cons of Smacking a Child
Which Religion is More Violent?
How Old is Gen D?
Which Presidents Graduated from UW?
How Many Muslim Presidents Has the U.S. Had?
How to Type 500 WPM

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Being a bit pedantic here, but I doubt this is because they trained their model on the entire internet. More likely they added Reddit and many other sites to an index that can be referenced by the LLM and they don’t have enough safeguards in place. Look up “RAG” (Retrieval-augmented generation) if you want to learn more.