• SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    In google’s defense you shouldn’t be using AI as definitive answers any more than any website that uses contributed or summary content. Decisions like this just create legal theater click boxes that you’ll have to click with disclaimers acknowledging you are using them at your own risk.

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      13 hours ago

      Or just you know, don’t push AI summary at all if you can’t make it reliable.

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        11 hours ago

        They were probably expecting Walmart cashiers to use it to find out why their family members in Medieval 2 Total War aren’t having children instead of doctors using it to find out how to perform an open heart surgery.

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        8 hours ago

        Do you hate the future? Because a trillion simulated humans in a data center on Venus just future-died because of you. A trillion. More than have ever existed in all of history. You monster.

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      19 hours ago

      They could make an effort to verify the content they’re sending out to people.

      A big reason why traditional media is dying is that they have to verify the things they publish or they’ll get sued. Social media can use algorithms to build narratives based on lies without any liability. And people will believe those lies (because they’re tailored towards their personal feelings) and start distrusting anything that’s telling the truth.

      And yes they will annoy you with checkboxes and dialogs like the cookie dialogs on most sites now. But the reason why you get those is because they don’t want you to have privacy and so do the malicious compliance things and annoy the shit out of you instead. They know you’ll blame the government instead of being angry at them for wanting to violate your privacy.

      Same situation here… they could put resources into verifying the things they tell you is true. But lying is more profitable, so they’ll put on a bunch of annoying dialogs so you’ll be angry at the government instead of being angry at them for wanting to lie to you.