Over the last two years, a series of updates to Google Search amount to a dramatic upheaval to the Internet's most powerful tool, complete with an unprecedented AI feature.
I just love all the google seach AI memes that have sprung out of this change. They’re all unhinged, but the fun thing is that you can’t tell which one is real.
I’ve seen suggestions that many are just faked with the browser and your ability to edit the page as shown to you because if you search what was searched in the image you get a different result; but it’s generating the responses real time when you search so even if you yourself search the same phrase multiple times, you get different results.
Which is bad enough on its own. The same queries should not give different results each time.
I have seen one that was definitely genuine. It had taken information from websites related to an art and writing group I’m a member of, essentially treating several works of fiction (mostly from the 20+ year old content that was written when we were teenagers) as containing factual information about real animals. The person who posted the meme was not a member of the group, but was just pointing out how stupid it was that such obvious fiction was presented as fact. We found it amusing because the AI was pointing to several of the group’s sites as places to get more information about these real animals. There is definitely no legit information on those sites.
Remember, folks, the AI’s have gobbled up decades worth of teenagers’ fanfic and original stories. All the weird shit in those stories is getting regurgitated as though it were real.
Yeah what could go wrong when training AI on any random internet data indiscriminately. It’s all fun until the AI proposes home remedies for appendicitis.
In my experience, it has not generated results in real time. I’ve either gotten the exact same response, or a prompt asking “would you like to generate an AI response to your search?”
So it seems like, and would make sense, that in a given time period they only generate a response once per given search, and reuse that response in the future, since that’s far more efficient
I just love all the google seach AI memes that have sprung out of this change. They’re all unhinged, but the fun thing is that you can’t tell which one is real.
I’ve seen suggestions that many are just faked with the browser and your ability to edit the page as shown to you because if you search what was searched in the image you get a different result; but it’s generating the responses real time when you search so even if you yourself search the same phrase multiple times, you get different results.
Which is bad enough on its own. The same queries should not give different results each time.
I have seen one that was definitely genuine. It had taken information from websites related to an art and writing group I’m a member of, essentially treating several works of fiction (mostly from the 20+ year old content that was written when we were teenagers) as containing factual information about real animals. The person who posted the meme was not a member of the group, but was just pointing out how stupid it was that such obvious fiction was presented as fact. We found it amusing because the AI was pointing to several of the group’s sites as places to get more information about these real animals. There is definitely no legit information on those sites.
Remember, folks, the AI’s have gobbled up decades worth of teenagers’ fanfic and original stories. All the weird shit in those stories is getting regurgitated as though it were real.
Yeah what could go wrong when training AI on any random internet data indiscriminately. It’s all fun until the AI proposes home remedies for appendicitis.
In my experience, it has not generated results in real time. I’ve either gotten the exact same response, or a prompt asking “would you like to generate an AI response to your search?”
So it seems like, and would make sense, that in a given time period they only generate a response once per given search, and reuse that response in the future, since that’s far more efficient