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Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI | It now says AI headlines are a ‘feature,’ not an experiment. (www.theverge.com)
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[–] 14 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Fun experiment: Ask Google if there are more stars in the solar system than grains of sand in a glass of water. See the AI confidently say "yes" and then refresh the query and see it confidently say "no".

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  • [–] 22 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I have experimented and can very often get AI to give whatever answer I want (i.e. on a yes/no) by subtly changing the query. Super easy to manipulate the results.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    The same is predictably true in research, meaning a lot of academic research being produced at the moment is complete crap. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08825

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I don't know if I'd say "a lot," but I think you are correct to say "some." We don't need to suddenly start flinging around generalized invectives towards science, especially when there's already a concerted effort by conspiracy theorists and bad actors to convince people to reject science out of hand.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

    True, there's a lot of good research being produced as well. There's just an insane amount of academic work being produced in general, both good and bad.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Yes, and I passed that research paper onto someone who works with researchers who think LLMs are the best new invention for technical writing. It's going to be a constant battle, even amongst people who should know better.

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