cross-posted from: https://zerobytes.monster/post/1072393
The original post: /r/nottheonion by /u/The_Ethics_Officer on 2024-05-25 00:48:15.
Friend of mine was helping me set up a doorbell camera today and although it was wireless, it had the connections for a wired camera as well. We weren’t sure which colored wires go where so we both looked it up on our phones. I was using startpage and he used google. The AI generated google answer was the complete opposite of the first couple of results from startpage (google without the AI). We could’ve risked a short.
The colors of the wires in electrical systems and such are only for esthetics. Arrange them the way you think is the prettiest. If you’re lucky you’ll also get fancy sparkles!
Oh, it’s worse than that.
Google’s “AI” results feed you things for 10 year old Reddit posts that are subtle (but sometimes, also not so subtle) bullshit.
Whatever they’re using to curate training data is evidently pretty awful at detecting shitposts.
It’s not a training data issue, look up Retrieval Augmented Generation. It’s basically serving up stuff on the web and taking it as gospel.
