Google AI Overview made up an elaborate story about me

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693 points jsheard | 2 comments | 01 Sep 25 14:27 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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. Gigachad ◴[01 Sep 25 22:30 UTC] No.45097177[source]▶

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Google should be held liable for this. They are the ones who published and hosted this. And should be accountable for every bit of libel they publish.

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2. pjc50 ◴[02 Sep 25 10:03 UTC] No.45101001[source]▶

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American attitudes to free speech mean that only the most dramatic, damaging libels can be held accountable, years after the effect. I think the only one I can think of that got justice was Alex Jones libelling Sandy Hook victims.

(no easy answers: UK libel law errs in the other direction)

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