Google’s AI Overviews are out of control - Stack Diary
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Google rolled out the AI Overviews (previously known as Search Generative Experience), on May 10th in the United States, with the promise of

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  • TommySoda@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    6 months ago

    It’s almost like LLM’s aren’t the solution to literally everything like companies keep trying to tell us they are. Weird.

    I honestly can’t wait for this to blow up in a company’s face in a very catastrophic way.

    • youngalfred@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      Already has - air Canada was held liable for their ai chatbot giving wrong information that a guy used to buy bereavement tickets. They tried to claim they weren’t responsible for what it said, but the judge found otherwise. They had to pay damages.

      • barsquid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        That’s not catastrophic yet. That cost them only the money which would otherwise have been margin on top of a low priced ticket.

    • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.meEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      AI is basically like early access games but the entirety of big tech is rushing to roll it out first to as many people as possible.

      • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        Hah, remember when games and software used to be tested to ensure they would function correctly before release?

        At least with Early Access games you know its in development.

        What has it been, nearly a decade now that we just expect nearly everything to be broken on launch?