How did you get in my house!?

(yes, we have this exact drawer, though I moved the scale to another drawer)

I disagree. If you say “oranges are closely related to citrus fruit” you’re implying they’re not citrus fruit. It’s not ambiguous.

But… I can see the difference with “great apes” in the colloquial sense.

However, I changed the question to “What are the great apes scientifically” and it still left humans off, and this time didn’t even mention humans.

I think that is outright, unambiguously, incorrect. (And ChatGPT agrees fwiw, though it left bonobos off the list, so… <shrug>)

A lion would eat a human and is smaller than a horse. A predatory horse would wreck the shit out of a human.

It specifically says “great apes are closely related to humans”.

My bad, I scrolled it out of view when I took the screenshot.

It was definitely the AI, here’s the unscrolled view:

I wasn’t complaining. I was making fun of it, pointing out how dumb it is. I thought people would appreciate it (and it seems to be the case, with a few exceptions) and I created the community so there was a contained place for people to do the same. You don’t have to participate in it, there’s a way to turn off that feature.

However, I responded to your comment about people complaining because I think people have every right to complain. You seem very focused on the problem being for individuals, when I think the problem (that I’m talking about) is much bigger than that.

And no, I can not fix Google giving incorrect information to billions of people.

I would recommend you not start posting what it generates about specific individuals willy nilly. I’m not sure what your intentions were but just so you know, it made me feel very uncomfortable.

And yes, I know it’s info that is publicly accessible and anyone could do that, but it’s a bit weird to have it posted like that, particularly when it’s so exaggerated and inaccurate.

Yes, you do. You can complain about google (or whoever) feeding disinformation to the masses.

This is much more accurate, I’d say, though probably still incomplete:

How is it for you?

Just because you can turn it off for yourself doesn’t mean the problem no longer exists.

I don’t think I talk about hockey or the Canucks very much (at all?), and other than this brand new community I don’t think I talk about AI making mistakes that much. But, I can’t really remember.

In general I’d say it’s made a lot of stuff up and exaggerated things based on limited information.

What AI/LLM is that btw?

Not everyone is savvy enough to turn it off, for one. The average person isn’t even going to think about turning it off. That means a lot of people are now being fed a top search result that is the wrong info half of the time. Not just the wrong webpage, but actually the wrong information.

For another thing, it shouldn’t be on by default if it’s so bad. If this was a traditional bug giving you incorrect search results half the time, it wouldn’t be released. But because of this AI race that’s happening, google is willing to release this massive bug live, and on by default. We should be complaining about it!

I also think part of the problem is that it seems really useful. At first glance it seems like it has quickly and succinctly summarized the information that is deep inside other web pages, and presented the answer to specifically what i was looking for (quite confidently, at that.) It’s very easy to fall into a trap of trusting the information told to you.

Either way you can’t trust this top result, because it’s dumb.

However, specifically to what you’re saying, the part of the Wikipedia article that is highlighted in purple was set by the AI,and directly contradicts the AI. That part of the article was talking about the classic edition of Trivial Pursuit, so there was nothing wrong with the article.

Yeah, it requested an email address.

Your blocker must be blocking that.

Psych!

Some politician posted a video of “drones” in the sky and it was literally the constellation of Orion.

Having to provide an email address is a paywall.

For the kids: https://youtu.be/qV873dFNQFI

I like chia seeds to replace eggs in flour-based stuff (baked goods, pancakes, etc.) One tablespoon of chia seeds soaked in 2 1/2 to 3 tablespoons of water for 5 minutes replaces one egg.

I started doing it for my cholesterol (chia seeds have a much better polyunsaturated fat ratio) but then I found I actually really like it. They work generally the same but add a little crunch without changing the flavour.

I’m not usually eating baked goods for the vitamins, so what I’m missing from the eggs (B12, for example) I’ll get from other sources. Also, chia seeds can be kept on hand for a long time without refrigeration, so they’re a good survival food :D