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mvdtnz 2 days ago

When asking a question do you not see a difference between

1. Here's the answer (but it's misinformation) 2. Here are some websites that look like they might have the answer

?

what 2 days ago | parent [-]

Isn’t 1 really “here’s a summary of what the websites from 2 say”?

Scarblac 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

No, enough examples in this thread of the AI advice being contradictory to the correct sites listed below.

adonovan 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not always. More than once I've seen the AI confidently misquote result #1, Wikipedia.

Miraste 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

That's the goal, but the AI Overview LLM is terrible at summarizing, and will misunderstand even straightforward single-source answers. Then it will repeat its newly created misinformation as fact.