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   Joel Pomales (joelpomales@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 04:57:59 JST Joel Pomales

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   • Lauren Weinstein

   @lauren someone's going to get hurt, man.

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     Joe Ortiz (joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 04:57:59 JST Joe Ortiz

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     • Lauren Weinstein

     @joelpomales @lauren Someone's going to die even.

     Like I said yesterday, the death of the web is upon us...

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     Lauren Weinstein (lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 04:58:03 JST Lauren Weinstein

     #Google putting wrong medical advice in their #AI Overviews.

     This is not funny. It is not acceptable. Today I saw someone who had asked a health-related question to Google Search. The AI Overview presented mixed-up, wrong information. I urged the person to ignore the AI Overview and use the regular site links.

     They didn't know there were any regular site links, because the AI Overview filled essentially their entire window and they didn't know to scroll down. This is a common situation with busy, nontechie users.

     They have depended on Google to point them at accurate information for so many years, and now Google Search spews out convincing looking AI garbage. This is not an anomaly.

     Google's AI Overviews are full of wrong, partially wrong (even more dangerous!), and just plain misinformation. Answers that are completely reversed from supposed source pages because the AI didn't understand the wording. Measurements wrong. Math wrong.

     It doesn't matter how often AI Overviews are correct, because you NEVER KNOW when they're going to be wrong, either completely or partly (again, mixing true with false -- like contaminating a well).

     And now Google is trying to convince users to use "AI Search" instead -- "Hey Ma', no more list of blue links!" -- making it even harder to see that so many of their answers are, if you'll excuse the expression, bulls*it, sometimes dangerous as well.

     This is unconscionable. Frankly, whether Google understands this or not, this behavior is uncaring and evil. Apparently Google's leadership no longer feels any shame at all. Disgusting.

     Rich Felker repeated this.
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     Aaron (hosford42@techhub.social)'s status on Friday, 23-May-2025 00:45:47 JST Aaron

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     • Lauren Weinstein

     @lauren I made a post not long ago about the horrible disinformation the Google LLM was spreading about autistic people. It's not just doing harm to the people who are doing the searches; it's actively spreading harmful myths and bigoted viewpoints about vulnerable, third-party minorities.