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Re: Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour

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Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
> keithr0 <me@bugger.off.com.au> wrote:
>> https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/04/analysis-finds-google-ai-overviews-is-wrong-10-percent-of-the-time/
> This reveals how little reasoning and cross-checking really goes on
> when these AIs answer questions:
>
> Scientists invented an obviously fake illness, and AI spread it
> like truth within weeks
> https://www.osnews.com/story/144787/scientists-invented-an-obviously-fake-illness-and-ai-spread-it-like-truth-within-weeks/
>
> This seems to be the fact some people here can't get their head
> around:
>
> "This shouldn't come as a surprise. After all, "AI" tools have no
>   understanding, no intelligence, no context, and they can't actually
>   make sense of anything. They are glorified pachinko machines with
>   the output - the ball - tumbling down the most likely path between
>   the pins based on nothing but chance and which pins it has already
>   hit. "AI" output understands the world about as much as the
>   pachinko ball does, and as such, can't pick up on even the most
>   obvious of cues that something is a fake or a forgery."
>

interesting. but if they can't 'think' how do/can they write essays?

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  Re: Testing suggests Google’s AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-04-08 10:28 +1000
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                Re: Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-04-18 11:49 +1000
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                Re: Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-04-23 17:04 +1000
                Re: Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-04-24 09:16 +1000
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                Re: Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-04-25 08:20 +1000
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                Re: Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-04-27 09:14 +1000
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