Re: AI and hallucinations....

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6. Please don't use Google's AI Overview. It's often wrong and it's extremely harmful to the internet,

depriving websites of traffic.

LLMs - large language models - have always hallucinated and always will. They don't know what's true. They don't think. They just appear to be thinking.

In the same way that AI image generators are capable of vomiting out endless different images from a single prompt, text generators are capable of generating endless different responses to the same prompt, with no awareness of whether any of them are correct. The only reason you don't see AI Overview offer you 3 or 30 different answers simultaneously is that not only would that cost the AI company more money, but it also makes it more obvious that the AI has no idea what it's talking about.

A couple of old threads I posted linking to info that can help you:

ChatGPT Is Bullshit (academic paper published June 8 that's getting a lot of attention)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219045534

AI hallucinations are getting worse - and they're here to stay (New Scientist)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220307464