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

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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."

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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
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    Re: Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-04-14 09:51 +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) - 2026-04-15 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
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      Re: Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-04-15 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
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                Re: Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-04-26 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

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