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Death by AI

(davebarry.substack.com)
583 points ano-ther | 3 comments | 19 Jul 25 14:35 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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rf15 ◴[19 Jul 25 20:34 UTC] No.44619135[source]▶
So many reports like this, it's not a question of working out the kinks. Are we getting close to our very own Stop the Slop campaign?
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1. weatherlite ◴[20 Jul 25 04:20 UTC] No.44621943[source]▶
> Are we getting close to our very own Stop the Slop campaign?

I don't think so. We read about the handful of failures while there are billions of successful queries every day, in fact I think AI Overviews is sticky and here to stay.

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2. mepiethree ◴[20 Jul 25 13:29 UTC] No.44625039[source]▶
Are we sure these billions of queries are “successful” for the actual user journey? Maybe this is particular to my circle, but as the only “tech guy” most of my friends and family know, I am regularly asked if I know how to turn off Google AI overviews because many people find them to be garbage
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3. gtsop ◴[20 Jul 25 17:28 UTC] No.44627315[source]▶
Why on earth are you accepting his premise that there are billions of successful requests? I just asked chatgpt about query success rate and it replied (part):

"...Semantic Errors / Hallucinations On factual queries—especially legal ones—models hallucininate roughly 58–88% of the time

A journalism‑focused study found LLM-based search tools (e.g., ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, Grok) were incorrect in 60%+ of news‑related queries

Specialized legal AI tools (e.g., Lexis+, Westlaw) still showed error rates between 17% and 34%, despite being domain‑tuned "