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   Lauren Weinstein (lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 11:46:46 JST Lauren Weinstein

   I asked #Google Search a very basic, 100% fact-based question about the California DMV. The Google AI Overview confidently presented me with a 100% wrong answer. This is why I don't trust AI Overviews at all. I don't care how often they are correct, when they're wrong they're usually incredibly wrong and often in ways that could really screw people up who happened to believe those false AI-generated statements. And GOOGLE DOESN'T TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR THIS.

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     SlightlyCyberpunk (admin@mastodon.slightlycyberpunk.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 11:46:44 JST SlightlyCyberpunk

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     @lauren stumbled into this lovely example of that at work recently...and no, I was not trying to use any AI:

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     Jeaux (jeaux@c.im)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 11:56:29 JST Jeaux

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     @lauren I recently got this answer when asking a pretty simple question of how many active service members does the U.S. currently have🤦🏻♀️