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Google AI overviews are often bad, yes, but why is youtube as a source necessarily a bad thing? Are these researchers doctors? A close relative is a practicing
by laborcontract 8mo ago
Google AI overviews are often bad, yes, but why is youtube as a source necessarily a bad thing? Are these researchers doctors? A close relative is a practicing surgeon and a professor in his field. He watches youtube videos of surgeries practically every day. Doctors from every field well understand that YT is a great way to share their work and discuss w/ others.
Before we get too worked up about the results, just look at the source. It's a SERP ranking aggregator (not linking to them to give them free marketing) that's analyzing only the domains, not the credibility of the content itself.
This report is a nothingburger.
- ceejayoz 8mo ago> A close relative is a practicing surgeon and a professor in his field. He watches youtube videos of surgeries practically every day. A professor in the field can probably go "ok this video is bullshit" a couple minutes in if it's wrong. They can identify a bad surgeon, a dangerous technique, or an edge case that may not be covered. You and I cannot. Basically, the same problem the general public has with phishing, but even more devastating potential consequences.
- raincole 8mo agoThe same can be said for average "medical sites" the Google search gives you anyway.
- ceejayoz 8mo agoIt's a lot easier for me to assess the Mayo Clinic's website being legitimate than an individual YouTuber's channel.
- fc417fc802 8mo agoI don't think anyone is talking about "medical sites" but rather medical sites. Indeed "medical sites" are no better than unvetted youtube videos created by "experts". That said, if (hypothetically) gemini were citing only videos posted by professional physicians or perhaps videos uploaded to the channel of a medical school that would be fine. The present situation is similar to an LLM generating lots of citations to vixra.
- laborcontract 8mo agoYour comment doesn't address my point. The same criticism applies to any medium.
- ceejayoz 8mo agoThe point is you can't say "an expert finds x useful in their field y" and expect it to always mean "any random idiot will find x useful in field y".
- RobotToaster 8mo agoImagine going onto youtube and finding a video of yourself being operated on lol