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Google AI Overview made up an elaborate story about me

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693 points jsheard | 3 comments | 01 Sep 25 14:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.733s | source
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AnEro ◴[01 Sep 25 15:23 UTC] No.45093447[source]▶
I really hope this stays up, despite the politics involvement to a degree. I think this is a situation that is a perfect example of how AI hallucinations/lack of accuracy could significantly impact our lives going forward. A very nuanced and serious topic with lots of back and forth being distilled down to headlines by any source, it is a terrifying reality. Especially if we aren't able to communicate how these tools work to the public. (if they even will care to learn it) At least when humans did this they knew at some level at least they skimmed the information on the person/topic.
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1. reaperducer ◴[01 Sep 25 17:46 UTC] No.45094915[source]▶
I think this is a situation that is a perfect example of how AI hallucinations/lack of accuracy could significantly impact our lives going forward.

This has been a Google problem for decades.

I used to run a real estate forum. Someone once wrote a message along the lines of "Joe is a really great real estate agent, but Frank is a total scumbag. Stole all my money."

When people would Google Joe, my forum was the first result. And the snippet Google made from the content was "Joe... is a total scumbag. Stole all my money."

I found out about it when Joe lawyered up. That was a fun six months.

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2. dieortin ◴[02 Sep 25 14:04 UTC] No.45103285[source]▶
Sorry but I don’t see how what you mention is a problem. A search engine is just surfacing the content you have in your site. That is very different from it making stuff up.
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3. reaperducer ◴[03 Sep 25 15:26 UTC] No.45116914[source]▶
No apology necessary. Read it again. More carefully this time.