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Who knows how many of these are fake. People have been dropping inspect-element-manipulated screenshots all over twitter. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/te

by caesil 2y ago

Who knows how many of these are fake. People have been dropping inspect-element-manipulated screenshots all over twitter. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/technology/google-ai-overview-search.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/technology/google-ai-over... > A correction was made on May 24, 2024: An earlier version of this article referred incorrectly to a Google result from the company’s new artificial-intelligence tool AI Overview. A social media commenter claimed that a result for a search on depression suggested jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge as a remedy. That result was faked, a Google spokeswoman said, and never appeared in real results. that screenshot was tweeted by @allgarbled. ten minutes before, they tweeted: >free engagement hack right now is to just inspect element on the google search AI thing and edit it to something dumb. hurry up, this deal won’t last forever

ethbr1 2y ago
I'd say the broader issue here is a lack of transparency into results. If Google is sending bad results, who can prove that?
- realreality 2y ago
  That’s always been an issue. Years ago, researchers demonstrated in an experiment that they could swing public opinion about electoral candidates by manipulating search results. Who knows if Google took that experiment and ran with it?
  - ethbr1 2y ago
    I mean, that's always been the TikTok argument, to me. Widely-used platforms that can +/- 1% their algorithms to affect democracy have pretty high burdens of trust/transparency, and we're not close to that with any platform (Chinese or not) that I'm aware of. Meta's probably the closest, because of scrutiny, but afaik even their transparency isn't sufficient for realtime attestation.
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Aloisius 2y ago
I have personally reproduced several like the interest one and the hippo eggs one, though not that one specifically. Google has started restricting AI Overviews so much now that most of the example queries on Google's Search Labs page doesn't even trigger it anymore.

by caesil 2y ago

ethbr1 2y ago

I'd say the broader issue here is a lack of transparency into results. If Google is sending bad results, who can prove that?

realreality 2y ago
That’s always been an issue. Years ago, researchers demonstrated in an experiment that they could swing public opinion about electoral candidates by manipulating search results. Who knows if Google took that experiment and ran with it?
- ethbr1 2y ago
  I mean, that's always been the TikTok argument, to me. Widely-used platforms that can +/- 1% their algorithms to affect democracy have pretty high burdens of trust/transparency, and we're not close to that with any platform (Chinese or not) that I'm aware of. Meta's probably the closest, because of scrutiny, but afaik even their transparency isn't sufficient for realtime attestation.

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Aloisius 2y ago

I have personally reproduced several like the interest one and the hippo eggs one, though not that one specifically. Google has started restricting AI Overviews so much now that most of the example queries on Google's Search Labs page doesn't even trigger it anymore.