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Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] hesh 1 point 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

OK, so I don't blame the GPUs crunching out the LLM lies, or the HTML on the page, I blame Google the company that programmed them.

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[–] supamanc@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

The point is, the LLM is not 'lying' to you. It's showing you information. It doesn't 'know' whether the information is true or not. It also doesn't 'care'. Because it is a statistical model and is incapable of those things. And if you scroll back to my initial point, I said "technically, it's not lying, because lying requires intent to deceive, and LLMs don't have intent"

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[–] hesh 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

What's the point of making this semantic difference though?

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[–] supamanc@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago

Because 1) it's true and the article is a bit misleading as to whom is actually doing the lying and 2) it's important to remember that LLM are not sentient and to push back against the tide of language which subtly suggests they are.

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