Stupid AI Results - add your own

[king1]

Thought this might be interesting...

Feel free to add any you come across, be it articles about some dumb AI responses, screenshots or search results

[nzoomed]

Google gave me some inaccurate information on a search result the other day, I should have taken a screen shot.

[zqwerty]

The problem with AI that I have seen stated in more than one article is the fact that the random unreliability which can occur anytime you use it causes big problems especially when getting assistance with gathering info and help with writing articles means that it cannot be trusted and basically every word and sentence has to be checked for accuracy and lack of errors including deeper meaning and overall veracity.

Thus it is better to just do the work yourself and then there is no one else to blame if things go wrong.

[harm_less]

The problem with AI that I have seen stated in more than one article is the fact that the random unreliability which can occur anytime you use it causes big problems especially when getting assistance with gathering info and help with writing articles means that it cannot be trusted and basically every word and sentence has to be checked for accuracy and lack of errors including deeper meaning and overall veracity.

Thus it is better to just do the work yourself and then there is no one else to blame if things go wrong.

Absolutely. Using AI generated content as fact is a foolish move. It is no better than quoting the first bit of opiniated crap you come up with and believing it's true. There are one or two people we are all familiar with here that can do that without the aid of AI

[zqwerty]

Yes one of the examples was when you are not entirely sure of how to carry out some task and ask AI a method, it will happily give you something which looks a valid method but has lots of errors or even just one which actually makes it useless and risky.

Quite creative at looking and sounding good but not completely correct, which is useless and dangerous if you publish AI's offering without checking.

[Oh_hunnihunni]

When I was doing a bit of academic editing I soon learned how many students relied on internet sources like wikipedia and google without ever seeking an alternative, and how shocked most were when my red ink pointed out inaccuracies they'd taken at face value. The first reaction was usually anger - at me, lol. So these days, when it is revealed that the Trump regime calculated their recent tariff impositions on the basis of trade deficits rather than the causes of those deficits I am not the least bit surprised by so called experts taking the easy route via the internet.

And even less surprised when book burning campaigns become part of political thinking.

The great dumbing down is well underway.

[nzoomed]

The biggest danger is when people start treating this AI generated information as accurate it's easy to skim through and forget it's AI.
Quite often I'm finding when I click on the links for each AI summary and it reads radically different than the source page.

[harm_less]

A case in point (excuse the pun). https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programme...e-in-court

[nzoomed]

its only going to get worse, and harder to combat.