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[–] 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Google can directly lead you to the original sources and studies that have made these conclusions, dumb-dumb. They're not saying to blindly listen to the AI overview, they're saying to Google it and find the scientific studies that are publicly accessible instead of making wild guesses.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Especially if you click on links that arent just the first 2 pages of sponsored content.

    Cory Doctorow, who knows a thing or 2 about this, used kagi as his search engine(or did for a while) and says it uses google without a bunch of garbage results(though it also doesn't exclusively use google for it's results)

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago

    Google intentionally tries to steer you towards corporate and government supported narratives. Most of their algorithm is designed to brainwash midwits who think a scientific study = truth, which wasn't even remotely true in the times before massive ngos and nonprofits and advocacy groups funding pseudoscientific studies. Reading a study these days doesn't really mean anything if you aren't an expert in the field. Most studies are also not reproducible.

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