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Re:How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as De... by EGreg on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @02:06PM (#40431730)
It's not real, I think. It's a doctored image. See for yourself:

https://www.google.com/search?q=what+are+the+four+horsement+...

https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+the+longest+marriage...

aaaaaaand this is exactly what I mean about people falling for misinformation. You fell for a human doctoring an image. Now imagine what much more subtle lies can do, at scale, with bot swarms creating articles and posts all over the internet to support their bullshit.

People already barely fact check anything they read online, and actually they barely read, they skim LOL!

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Re:How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as De... by Aloisius on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @02:30PM (#40432048)
Em. At least one of them is real since I just got it.

https://imgur.com/a/pY1VQC3

Query: how much would $3500 in 2015 be worth in 2024?

Edit: And got a second one: https://imgur.com/a/E9HJcpn

Query: what rhymes with pavement?

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Re:How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as De... by not2b on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @02:42PM (#40432190)
I got it too; it's real. Using the "Web" view gives the correct result on top, the AI overview looks like it picked 1789 as the starting point.
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Re:How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as De... by fallingsquirrel on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @02:14PM (#40431820)
Maybe it's fake, or maybe it's been fixed since then. Who knows? This is another problem with these closed source services giving "personalized" results that are totally different from one person to the next and one day to the next. How would you propose we authenticate the screenshot?
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Re:How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as De... by EGreg on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @02:15PM (#40431837)
Who knows!

We need an analogue of this IMHO: https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/

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Re:How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as De... by roywiggins on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @02:14PM (#40431828)
I haven't seen any howlers myself in Google yet, but Meta suggested to me that electric city buses can be charged "at home."
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Re:How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as De... by hehdhdjehehegwv on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @02:45PM (#40432231)
I mean, that’s not wrong depending on the home…
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Re:How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as De... by klyrs on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @08:06PM (#40435835)
But... mah third amendment!
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Re:How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as De... by recursive on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @02:10PM (#40431775)
It may be a doctored image. But we don't know. I don't think these things are deterministic. At least not just with search query. It could be real, and you might get a real response that makes sense.
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Re:How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as De... by hehdhdjehehegwv on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @02:44PM (#40432226)
it’s just ten RNGs and a dictionary in a trench coat.
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Re:How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as De... by 12_throw_away on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @02:12PM (#40431792)
Google may return different results at different times
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Re:How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as De... by EGreg on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @02:14PM (#40431827)
Let me know if you ever get a result that's as wildly incorrect as those
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Re:How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as De... by AirMax98 on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @02:56PM (#40432381)
I recently received a result that gave me the wrong date for a college class registration, which was pretty fucked up. It was off by three days. Luckily, I double checked my schools official website.
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Re:How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as De... by runiq on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @02:18PM (#40431882)
I did, but you wouldn't believe me anyways.
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Re:How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as De... by EGreg on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @02:37PM (#40432135)
1. https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/celebrity/no-one-will...

2. When another Anonymous video drops, how do we know it’s the real Anonymous? Do they even know?

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Re:How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as De... by fallingsquirrel on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @02:20PM (#40431906)
This WSJ article has lots of examples.

https://archive.is/20220817223004/https://www.wsj.com/articl...

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Re:How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as De... by pulvinar on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @02:46PM (#40432243)
Note 2017 though.
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Re:How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as De... by reaperducer on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @02:52PM (#40432331)
That article is from 2017, so has nothing to do with AI.
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Re:How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as De... by hombre_fatal on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @02:24PM (#40431963)
People will gleefully take on board memes that confirm what they want to be true even if it's an image of text.
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Re:How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as De... by thesuitonym on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @02:40PM (#40432170)
Yes, we all know that Google searches appear exactly the same for all users.
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