You know how Google’s new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won’t slide off (pssst…please don’t do this.)

Well, according to an interview at The Vergewith Google CEO Sundar Pichai published earlier this week, just before criticism of the outputs really took off, these “hallucinations” are an “inherent feature” of  AI large language models (LLM), which is what drives AI Overviews, and this feature “is still an unsolved problem.”

  • @EatATaco@lemm.ee
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    116 months ago

    “put glue in your tomato sauce.”

    “Omg you ate a capitalist parasite spreading misinformation intentionally!”

    When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

    • @masquenox@lemmy.world
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      36 months ago

      “put glue in your tomato sauce.”

      Doesn’t sound all that different from the stuff emanating from the right’s Great Orange Hope a while back that worked pretty well to keep his base appropriately frothing at the mouth - you are free to write it off as pure coincidence… but I won’t just yet.