Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Rod Speed" Newsgroups: aus.computers Subject: Re: Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:07:42 +1000 Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <69dd76b7@news.ausics.net> <69dec01a@news.ausics.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 7a+a7mwN2uXZMKPzVnyjqQ+4W2unIREuMrZM0qjkNZy9Juxz4= Cancel-Lock: sha1:7TvtWK+adsYuUDFSb3RPFlmLcb0= sha256:sG79RAMSbLl9CC204L2kYe8iCySMucDiJK0BQL/ftgg= User-Agent: Opera Mail/1.0 (Win32) Xref: csiph.com aus.computers:73916 Computer Nerd Kev wrote > Axel wrote >> Computer Nerd Kev wrote >>> 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? > Same as everything: Model the language structure of essays found on > the web then reformat text believed relevent to the topic according > to that model. This is the basis of the Large Language Models. Real > AI is what's now being called "Artificial General Intelligence", > the LLMs are a shortcut method that doesn't bother with > understanding things but figures out how words go together in > relevent ways, without regard to whether the words they're > rearrangeing are completely irrelevent or in this case obviously > nonsensical. More of your mindless bullshit > Hence the convincing BS it shovels onto you when it > hasn't found the equivalent of good search resultsand reformats words > from irrelevent texts instead. More of your mindless bullshit > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_General_Intelligence