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Google AI Overview made up an elaborate story about me

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693 points jsheard | 4 comments | 01 Sep 25 14:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.522s | source
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geor9e ◴[01 Sep 25 16:21 UTC] No.45094036[source]▶
Can we stop conflating LLM models with the companies that created them? It's "…Gemini made up…". Do we not value accuracy? It'd be a whole different story if a human defamed you, rather than a token predictor.
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1. jjj123 ◴[01 Sep 25 16:26 UTC] No.45094086[source]▶
Why shouldn’t they be conflated? Google made the LLM, it is responsible for the LLMs output.

I mean, no, I don’t think some Google employee tuned the LLM to produce output like this, but it doesn’t matter. They are still responsible.

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3. geor9e ◴[02 Sep 25 03:32 UTC] No.45098869[source]▶
The HN headline I commented on was "Turns out Google made up an elaborate story about me". Someone (admin?) then added "AI Overview". My comment doesn't apply to the current headline. I got what I wanted.
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4. jjj123 ◴[02 Sep 25 05:19 UTC] No.45099390[source]▶
Yes, and I replied when it was still the original headline. I think they’re both appropriate headlines.