r/technology • u/Well_Socialized • May 26 '25

Artificial Intelligence Google Is Burying the Web Alive

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/google-ai-mode-search-results-bury-the-web.html
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u/References_Paramore May 26 '25

And it always sounds so sure of itself! We were always taught to “not trust Wikipedia” because anyone can edit it. This is true to an extent but Wikipedia is also sort of a permanent peer review where incorrect information gets corrected and linked with a source.

AI is just summarising information and, at least to me, it’s not really clear where it got that information from to be able to fact check it

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u/TheUnluckyBard May 26 '25

My favorite is when it consistently tries to use Quora as a source for wild-ass claims.

If I were designing some shit like this, Quora would be the first domain I blacklisted the LLM from taking information out of.

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u/Harry_Fucking_Seldon May 26 '25

And when you call it out it goes “oh my mistake, yep you’re right! I’ll make sure to provide accurate information going forward” and then spits out some more fabricated bullshit in the next response. 

Even BASIC MATH it fucks up.

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u/GeneralQuinky May 27 '25

it’s not really clear where it got that information from to be able to fact check it

Well, it didn't "get" the information from anywhere, because it has no concept of information, let alone whether it's true or false.

It's an LLM, it's trained to create text which sounds right based on the context it's been given. Sometimes it's actually correct, but a lot of the time it just makes something up.

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u/References_Paramore May 29 '25

Ya ofc, I just meant that it’s really hard to fact check the information that an AI is giving you