Comments by "⃠" (@U20E0) on "SomeOrdinaryGamers"
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@caschque7242
Making such a study would be very difficult, since you can't just get analytics about old versions of search engines unless you anticipated something like this and collected them beforehand. I wonder if someone has actually done it.
I don't see people blaming AI for everything (here anyway), and that is not what i was trying to do. I should have clarified that i was trying (with questionable success) to explain why the reaction is what it is, not to agree with it
( My personal opinion is that a: i don't care about this because i don't use Google; b: this is too recent of an event to form concrete opinions it; and c*)
What i see is two things:
1: people finding all possible arguments against everything Google does because people dislike Google; and
2: people being sick of AI getting shoved absolutely everywhere, including where it has no place.
Of course it requires time for companies to figure out how (and if even) to apply a technology this new, but that's not what most companies are doing.
That's not what most companies are seeking. Most companies are focusing on the "shiny new thing" aspect of AI.
This argument doesn't apply here, since this is (potentially) an actual good use case, but most times AI is introduced somewhere it ends up being to the product's detriment, and so that is the default assumed.
I also appreciate you appreciating an argument you don't agree with, that's rare on the internet nowadays.
*c:
The person who accepts the AI answer would also accept the first thing on the page, which is just as likely to be garbage.
The person who doesn't accept or accepts it after more research remains unaffected except being slightly annoyed.
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@caschque7242 Update:
My opinion has shifted, and yours should too.
This turned out to be a disaster.
My justification for saying that this doesn't really affect things was that people who will just accept it would also just accept the first thing they click, and the quality would be comparable, since it just summarises the content of the results..... or so i (and i assume you) thought.
After seeing this thing a bit more in action i think this should be removed immediately until Google fixes it.
It cannot analyse the context of information.
It has no restriction on when to activate.
It has no restriction on where to pull information from.
It does the standard AI thing of trying to not infringe copyright by mixing things up a bit.
It does not verity any information at all, especially that embedded into it from training.
When you combine these factors together you get a disaster.
It will readily take information from a couple of good sources, then blend it together, and add some more information from complete garbage places or its own knowledge which it assumes to be completely true.
One of the places it can pull from, a place also contributing significantly to it's training data, is social media. A place known for information that should not be taken out of context (jokes, troll responses, etc). It takes this information out of context and embeds it into the responses, often without saying it did so.
This is worse than misinformation sites, because misinformation sites are usually pretty obviously misinformation if you don't have confirmation bias to it, and are often written in a way that doesn't sound particularly authentic.
this on the other hand takes the misinformation (or incorrectly interpreted information) and puts it in completely well-formed and formatted language next to a bunch of good information, and it also can seem way more credible to people who don't know what's happening, even though it isn't.
Then even worse, it triggers on questions that absolutely should not get answers from experimental technology, like medical and financial advice.
This isn't just theory either. Some of the things it is saying could lead Google into legal issues. It has literally told people to *** themselves when they asked what they should do as they are feeling depressed.
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