Make up your mind Google AI. Is sound faster in air that is less dense or more dense?
Honestly, there is so much wrong in the AI answers that it’s hard to know where to start, but the direct contradiction of itself seems like a good start.
Not everyone is savvy enough to turn it off, for one. The average person isn’t even going to think about turning it off. That means a lot of people are now being fed a top search result that is the wrong info half of the time. Not just the wrong webpage, but actually the wrong information.
For another thing, it shouldn’t be on by default if it’s so bad. If this was a traditional bug giving you incorrect search results half the time, it wouldn’t be released. But because of this AI race that’s happening, google is willing to release this massive bug live, and on by default. We should be complaining about it!
I also think part of the problem is that it seems really useful. At first glance it seems like it has quickly and succinctly summarized the information that is deep inside other web pages, and presented the answer to specifically what i was looking for (quite confidently, at that.) It’s very easy to fall into a trap of trusting the information told to you.
Yeah I was addressing the audience here on Lemmy though. I get thinking the feature sucks but you can turn it off, which I did a while ago. I think it would make a lot more sense to complain about this in a setting like reddit where you’re not preaching to the choir so directly.
On Lemmy, I feel like 90% of users can build an app from source and debug dependency issues to make it happen. So it’s just odd to me that I still see this getting beat to death here.
Just because you can turn it off for yourself doesn’t mean the problem no longer exists.
No one said it no longer exists. Just that if you know you can turn it off but refuse to, you kind of have no right to complain about it.