Lauren Weinstein on Nostr: I asked #Google Search a very basic, 100% fact-based question about the California ...
I asked #Google Search a very basic, 100% fact-based question about the California DMV. The Google AI Overview confidently presented me with a 100% wrong answer. This is why I don't trust AI Overviews at all. I don't care how often they are correct, when they're wrong they're usually incredibly wrong and often in ways that could really screw people up who happened to believe those false AI-generated statements. And GOOGLE DOESN'T TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR THIS.
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