This is remarkable and so full of misdirection, it’s hard to know where to start? Is it the “lack of contemplation” invoked by a company enough data (see the r

This is remarkable and so full of misdirection, it’s hard to know where to start? Is it the “lack of contemplation” invoked by a company enough data (see the recent google search leaks) to make the NSA blush? Is it the fact that it glances over the vast amount of data about this one article back from 2021 that all screams satire? Is it that google bought reddit data which is full of context about the topic and content in /r/theonion and /r/notheonion? Is it that when I tried 8 other LLMs, all the way down to phi3-llava, a 3.8B vision model on a text only screenshot of the first two paragraph it responded with > “ Berkeley did not actually recommend eating small rocks as part of a healthy diet. The idea of incorporating sediment into one's diet, let alone suggesting that people should aim for a daily intake of at least one small rock, is absurd and completely contradicts scientific consensus” as did every competing model in one form or another (gpt4, claude, llama3-7B, wizardlm), indicating that even an edge model as enough information in its weights to identify the article as satire even without google’s data warehouse. Is it the language talking about Gemini “faithfully complying” and “nobody asked the question”, which seems to paint the technology as a faithful hound let down by its human masters? Is it that Google says “it’s hard” as if they were not the best resourced tech company in the world fully in charge of their own roadmap and technology stack and the luxury to pay off tens of thousands of workers because AI is so awesome? Is it that Google chose to shove this down the throats of SERP customers rather launching a new product to use their monopoly to quash a better executing competiton? Is it that there a pattern of similar issues (“Opps, Asian and African American SS troops”)? Is it that it’s impossible to tell the excuses from a VP of Product from an LLM hallucination? (That may actually reinforce the economic potential of the technology)? Is it that we are apparently so gullible, we deserve being fed something like this? I almost feel bad for Perplexity because a lot of people will take away “the technology is a total failure” rather than “Google is so desperate they’d rather burn down the ecosystem and tell everyone to eat glue [1] than let them get 1% of search” from this [1] https://snekoil.omg.lol https://snekoil.omg.lol