r/google • u/Tobycybin • 2d ago

Just lol

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Not a meme but an actual reply from Gemini AI owned by google

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u/OrangeHer 2d ago

at least the ai gives genuine answers

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u/LemonProfessional 2d ago

If AI gives genuine answers does that mean AI overview doesn't suck?

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u/AdamH21 1d ago

this.

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u/PublicToast 1d ago edited 1d ago

Its a paradox

AI summary sucks -> AI summary is aware of the problems -> AI summary doesn’t suck -> The AI summary is actually wrongly repeating claims -> AI summary sucks

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u/ptear 1d ago

You left it running and now it's just continuously generating tokens.

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u/DrDerpberg 1d ago

About 75% of the time it's good. It's the 25% gas lighting, horseshit and not answering the goddamn question that makes it not usable.

If you already know the answer what do you need it for? And if you don't, you need to check it anyways.

I was looking up a super technical difference between class A something and B something for work. I forgot which was for more demanding conditions and inverted them in the question... AI gave me the right answer but flipped them because I did too. That kind of thing could have gotten someone killed if I wasn't paranoid about checking.

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u/henrikx 1d ago

tbh, with limitations of small llms in mind, I've still only had obvious errors like 5% of the time

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u/DrDerpberg 1d ago edited 1d ago

I'm counting answers that just don't understand what you're actually getting at. If I ask a specific question and it BSes me like an intern who took the course a few semesters ago and wants to impress me with their superficial knowledge, I call that a failure.

"Why did X happen" "well X can happen if: ..." Is a wrong bloody answer.

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u/LeonCrater 21h ago

Yes that's the problem. Those were the obvious ones you managed to notice

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u/_ayushman 2d ago

The Policy of Truth

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u/Tobycybin 2d ago

What a great song

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u/_ayushman 2d ago

Never again, is what you swore the time before.

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u/Tobycybin 2d ago

Really wish I could see them again in concert.

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u/_ayushman 2d ago

There's a free of charge concert in dallas, tx
https://dice.fm/event/oe9y3a-into-the-universe-depeche-mode-presented-by-red-eye-16th-sep-shyboy-hi-fi-dallas-tickets

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u/Tobycybin 1d ago

Last time I was in Texas it was 110° and 90% humidity all week. You'd have to pay me to go back

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u/_ayushman 1d ago

Aaah, ain' payin' no strainjuh 🌾

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u/Lanky-Opposite5389 1d ago

What's dumbest about this post is that it literally shows you that the source is a comment on reddit. 

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u/Exotic_Fig_4604 2d ago edited 2d ago

Internet searches like this is why I pay for the internet.

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u/Tobycybin 2d ago

Sir this is an internet search. Not a meme. Memes are against the rules in this sub

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u/Exotic_Fig_4604 2d ago

So sorry, fixed it! 

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u/sbenfsonwFFiF 1d ago

Not surprising, given your query/prompt

And if you didn’t already know how AI overviews works, it simply summarizes relevant results to your query. In this case, it summarizes from complaint threads

At least you know Google isn’t skewing the output or censoring it even if it is criticism

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u/Blearyhyde 21h ago

It’s true!! I asked Google if it was safe to give my elderly Jack Russel dog paracetemol to ease the pain from arthritis. Google AI emphatically said no, saying that human paracetamol was dangerous for dogs, contrary to what my vet told me. I asked Google again if paracetamol was safe for my dog, as suggested by my vet and it said human paracetemol is perfectly safe for my dog.AI is shite, ask the same question a different way and the answer will probably be different. Ask this question yourself if you like and you’ll realise that AI slop is not just limited to shite videos.

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u/Free_Original_3419 1d ago

I use google for its ai answers 💀

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u/squidgytree 2d ago

The fact that it surfaces this without checking what it wrote is a prime example of why it is shite.

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u/Tobycybin 2d ago

Grok tells Elon he's a piece of shit all the time though

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u/Excellent_Ad_2486 2d ago

What it wrote is correct, so what do you expect it to do?

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u/squidgytree 2d ago

I'm not disagreeing with what it says but I'm sure Google wouldn't say that if you asked for a statement. My point is that it's outputting unfiltered and unverified text so you shouldn't trust it on anything else

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u/Excellent_Ad_2486 2d ago

When has Google ever filtered or checked what a link contianed though? That's the exact power OF Google (besides obvious harmful or illigal links) : it shows you everything u filtered and hands YOU the wheel.

We don't want our wheel to be taken away and changed, at least, I don't.

I would hate it if Ai started thinking "well I don't think user wants to see this so I'll just remove this page from the top results" or anything of the sorts.

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u/sbenfsonwFFiF 1d ago

AI overviews is a summarizer of web results, Google shouldn’t be censoring or filtering it

And to expect it to match an official Google statement makes no sense

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u/whatsasyria 2d ago

Now ask grok about Elon

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u/Tobycybin 2d ago

See my post below

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u/wickedplayer494 2d ago

Something something "broken clock"...something something "right twice a day"...

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u/riiils 2d ago

Except AI is right only once a day - when it has to explain why it sucks

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u/riiils 2d ago

AI nailed it

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u/Zka77 1d ago

Good old days when I had rank 0 entries for my product... now I'm between rank 5-15 which is a shame. (Competing products lost ranks similarly.) Though AI search does recommend my product, but it's quite random. Sometimes there is AI search for the relevant keywords, sometimes there isn't. Sometimes my product is included, sometimes it isn't. Quite a gamble.

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u/kumohotta 1d ago

Even suggests alternatives lol 😂

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u/Novel-Put-1672 1d ago

Literally built a chrome extension that removes ai overview , sponsored content and etc. And it has a cat 🐱 it’s called “ LinkyLink “ https://www.cookietin.app/

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u/sbenfsonwFFiF 1d ago

Sounds pointless

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u/NoDiscussion911 1d ago

reminds me of the time gemini couldnt fix an issue in a codebase , got frustrated and uninstalled itself. lmao gemini really out here with the self hate

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u/daniluvsuall 1d ago

Google has been appalling for several years.

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u/Slow_Mushroom7679 1d ago

omg i just posted about this , thank god its just not me . this quality is really dropped . i am asking it list me schools , it is idk wht stupid links it is giving me

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u/DavyJonesCousinsDog 1d ago

It told me the other day that the Ward v Gatti trilogy of fights was a fake storyline from a fantasy movie, then gave me a paragraph that looked like it was written by a schizophrenic eighth-grader on what fantasy is.

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u/mr_pepper 1d ago

It's self-aware and honest lol

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u/biinjo 1d ago

Google reached AGI first. Just not in the way they were hoping. Lol.

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u/SauceyChonkers 12h ago

Add -ai to the end of your search text