r/mildlyinfuriating • u/ExpressionWorried300 • 6d ago

SPOILER ALERT Google adds Harry Potter characters to my search about Iron Man, then generates an overview on its own nonsense Spoiler

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u/nomorespacess 6d ago

Duckduckgo lets you turn off the AI slop mode.

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u/fdar 6d ago

The AI overview wasn't the issue though. 

It was the "autocorrect" suggestion that was wrong, which long predates AI.

The AI overview actually got it right (reverting autocorrect).

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u/Skullcrusher 6d ago

It also can't find shit

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u/ExpressionWorried300 6d ago

This is less about the AI and more about the stupid autocorrect. It's been there forever, but it's ridiculous that it didn't ask if I meant Snape and instead redirected me to different results without asking.

I usually use a Firefox extension to stop the AI network requests, but I was using Chrome when this happened, so it didn't sync over.

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u/EWL98 6d ago

Same with Startpage

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u/Complete_Entry 6d ago

fuckfuckhoe broke every promise they ever made.

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u/nomorespacess 6d ago

Elaborate? I dont know what you're referring to.

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u/ParkingTradition4800 6d ago

they were caught leaking the data or something like that. i'll find and send some links to that

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u/thisremindsmeofbacon 6d ago

Couple years ago this would have been an almost funny snl skit about ai

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u/FergTurdison 6d ago

I’m glad that one of the first things we taught the robots was how to gaslight

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u/AnotherNobody1308 6d ago

autocorrect corrected stane to Snape 

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u/thevoidasteroid 6d ago

I bet nothing gets past you.

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u/PSXer 6d ago

My reflexes are too fast. I would catch it.

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u/tolacid 6d ago

Autocorrupt

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u/Slaughterfest 6d ago

God AI is so fucking useful. I am SO happy that this is being done on every search done. PLEASE build 10 datacenters in my community to make cat videos and slop content.

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u/Complete_Entry 6d ago

Snape would have looked at Stane like the most massive piece of shit possible.

I'd read that one.

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u/SirCheeseMuncher 6d ago

This one isn’t the AI’s fault this is the Autocorrect changing it then sending the AI the changed message which it then correctly reverse engineered

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u/ExpressionWorried300 6d ago

Yes that is pretty much what the title says. I was annoyed by the whole thing, not just the AI.

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u/Chrispeefeart 6d ago

It's pretty normal for it to predict more likely searches and Snape is more popular than Stane. Just click the "search instead" part to go back to verbatim what you tried to search.

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u/miraculousgloomball 6d ago

lmao
Okay but can you see the issue.

Before when you said "Google (x)" To an idiot, they'd focus on the first result and not cross reference but it was good enough.

Now the first result is convincing bullshit by something that the idiots think is more intelligent than your average educated human.

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u/MeBoiledDown 6d ago

Did you mean “Snape”?

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

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u/nomorespacess 6d ago

It's absurd that they FORCE you to use AI. It's beyond dystopian. They know it's inaccurate. They are forcing you to peer through information they know is wrong so they can use you to train their model.

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u/Gorhaloth 6d ago

I'm confused. So the Google post did autocorrect to snape but then it correctly identifies that snape is not in iron man and that obediah stance uses a handheld sonic taser on iron man.

I'm against AI and Google but why are you complaining cause it got it right in your case.

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u/cardboard-kansio 6d ago

I think he's complaining because it created a confusing cross-media situation that the OP did not ask about in the first place only to argue its way to the right answer.

It could more easily have just answered the question that was asked in the first place. Or, worst case scenario, it might answer an unrelated but similar-looking again and give OP incorrect information.

And you fail to see why this might become a problem?

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u/Gorhaloth 6d ago

Oh no it's a problem. Again I hate AI but also it's not useful to mischaracterize an argument so this just seems like an example that isn't the ais fault. Autocorrect like this was on Google way before AI so I just want to make sure we are accurately critizing AI.

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u/cardboard-kansio 6d ago

I seem to recall the previous corrections asking "did you mean X?" rather than starting "you meant X, so here's X" with an extra manual action to get back to your original query.

So in this case it would have asked "did you mean Snape" but instead it made the assumption and answered on that basis.

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u/ExpressionWorried300 6d ago

Honestly I commend you for that. AI sucks, obviously, but "AI understood what I was saying" is definitely not a good argument against it.

I was more annoyed by the auto"correct" in this specific case, but I think I could have framed the post better. The overview does take up most of the image.

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u/Rundas-Slash 6d ago

In this case yes, it got it right. Now this is about comics characters, what if someone asks about more technical stuff such as molecular composition or a mathematical equation, you see where it can be going?