Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour (arstechnica.com)

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90% of the time right means 10% of the time wrong, huge deal when you deal with billions of queries! **

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[-] GammaGames@beehaw.org 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Politicians in shambles

[-] randomname@scribe.disroot.org 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This isn't limited to Google's AI but true for all of LLMs. But as we all know, they are not 'lying' but rather just repeating the 'lies' they have learned.

this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2026

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