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Death by AI

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583 points ano-ther | 3 comments | 19 Jul 25 14:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.807s | source
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abathur ◴[19 Jul 25 23:43 UTC] No.44620532[source]▶
A popular local spot has a summary on google maps that says:

Vibrant watering hole with drinks & po' boys, as well as a jukebox, pool & electronic darts.

It doesn't serve po' boys, have a jukebox (though the playlists are impeccable), have pool, or have electronic darts. (It also doesn't really have drinks in the way this implies. It's got beer and a few canned options. No cocktails or mixed drinks.)

They got a catty one-star review a month ago for having a misleading description by someone who really wanted to play pool or darts.

I'm sure the owner reported it. I reported it. I imagine other visitors have as well. At least a month on, it's still there.

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1. gambiting ◴[20 Jul 25 04:49 UTC] No.44622077[source]▶
I am so frikkin tired of trying to help people online who post a screenshot "from Google"(which is obviously just the AI summary) that says feature X should exist even with detailed description of how it works when in reality feature X never existed.

This happens all the time on automotive forums/FB groups and it's a huge problem.

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2. sunaookami ◴[20 Jul 25 12:40 UTC] No.44624626[source]▶
AI Overviews are a good idea but the tech still needs to mature a lot more before we can give it to common folk. I'm shocked at how fast is has been rolled out just to "be first". Somehow, the AI Overviews also use Google's worst model.
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3. lozenge ◴[22 Jul 25 11:41 UTC] No.44645662[source]▶
The best thing about the AI overviews is it chooses better sources than you get from the search results, IE Google knows what websites are actually more informative and doesn't want to put them in the actual search results.