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Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination (gizmodo.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Google rolled out AI overviews across the United States this month, exposing its flagship product to the hallucinations of large language models.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

It’s not hallucination, the proper word is Confabulation. Can we as a collective fix this now before we get stuck with the wrong word for the next 30 years?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's just a fucking Chinese Room

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And humans aren't?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Correct

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Look my wife is gonna dispute that charge.

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