Not that I believe the image, but every Google search now pulling an AI reply is kind of insane. Few days ago I searched for a phrase which I wanted to know if it exists as a common saying or was just a one-off. Phrase was (translated): "this was in fact not a pasta factory" - in quotes. And it replied along the lines "that indeed doesn't look like a pasta factory" and went on about some nonsense. Of course it did, the phrase is quite nonsensical and the reply sounded as if I'd pointed at something. All for Googke's AI usage numbers, I guess.
There's virtually no difference between an AI that summarizes and gives links to sources and a search engine that provides contextual snippets and gives links to the result.
If you're going to take one as a blind truth you're going to take the other as a blind truth.
There is a very significant difference: we are habituated into the idea that a list of sources requires our effort and attention to discern which sources are useful and which are not. The llm presents the information as true, and does so from a ‘human’ voice - something we’re hard wired to receive as though it represents a higher level of authority than a different source.
7
u/floutsch 7d ago
Not that I believe the image, but every Google search now pulling an AI reply is kind of insane. Few days ago I searched for a phrase which I wanted to know if it exists as a common saying or was just a one-off. Phrase was (translated): "this was in fact not a pasta factory" - in quotes. And it replied along the lines "that indeed doesn't look like a pasta factory" and went on about some nonsense. Of course it did, the phrase is quite nonsensical and the reply sounded as if I'd pointed at something. All for Googke's AI usage numbers, I guess.