Groups | Search | Server Info | Login | Register

Groups > aus.computers > #73906

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

From "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups aus.computers
Subject Re: Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour
Date 2026-04-14 09:51 +1000
Message-ID <op.3nqskdwobyq249@pvr2.lan> (permalink)
References <n3lirkFh06iU1@mid.individual.net> <69dd76b7@news.ausics.net>

Show all headers | View raw

Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> 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:

Bullshit it does

> 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/

More bullshit on AI spreading it

> 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.

More mindless bullshit, you don't need any of that
to check how authoritative a particular source is

> 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.

Complete and utter mindless bullshit

> "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."

Complete and utter mindless bullshit

Back to aus.computers | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar

Thread

Testing suggests Google’s AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour keithr0 <me@bugger.off.com.au> - 2026-04-08 09:38 +1000
  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
    Re: Testing suggests Google’s AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour Ozix <ozix@xizo.am> - 2026-04-08 13:04 +0800
      Re: Testing suggests Google’s AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-04-08 16:04 +1000
  Re: Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-04-14 09:05 +1000
    Re: Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-04-14 09:51 +1000
    Re: Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour Axel <none@not.here> - 2026-04-14 12:31 +1000
      Re: Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-04-15 08:30 +1000
        Re: Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-04-15 09:07 +1000
    Re: Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-04-14 14:41 +1000
      Re: Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-04-15 08:43 +1000
        Re: Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-04-15 09:10 +1000
          Re: Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-04-15 09:18 +1000
            Re: Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-04-15 09:37 +1000
              Re: Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-04-17 08:17 +1000
                Re: Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-04-17 09:27 +1000
                Re: Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-04-18 08:46 +1000
                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
                Re: Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-04-22 08:37 +1000
                Re: Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-04-22 14:47 +1000
                Re: Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-04-23 07:37 +1000
                Re: Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-04-23 08:21 +1000
                Re: Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2026-04-23 13:50 +1000
                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
                Re: Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-04-24 10:41 +1000
                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
                Re: Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-04-25 09:40 +1000
                Re: Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-04-26 07:54 +1000
                Re: Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-04-26 08:47 +1000
                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
                Re: Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-04-27 14:07 +1000

csiph-web