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nerevarthelame ◴[] No.45094942[source]
Most people Google things they're unfamiliar with, and whatever the AI Overview generates will seem reasonable to someone who doesn't know better. But they are wrong a lot.

It's not just the occasional major miss, like this submission's example, or the recommendation to put glue on a pizza. I highly recommend Googling a few specific topics you know well. Read each overview entirely and see how many often it gets something wrong. For me, only 1 of 5 overviews didn't have at least 1 significant error. The plural of "anecdote" is not "data," but it was enough for me to install a Firefox extension that blocks them.

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1. retsibsi ◴[] No.45094978[source]
I've found that the AI Overview is more accurate than it used to be... which makes it much worse in practice. It used to be wrong often enough, and obviously enough, that it was easy to ignore. Now it's often right and usually plausible, which makes it very tempting to rely on.