Re:Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination
by squarepizza on Friday May 24, 2024 @10:40PM
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The uncanny valley of generated software: utility is inversely proportional to distance from the correct answer, with a huge drop into the dangerously believable.
I have a similar experience using GitHub Copilot… it usually gets it right, which is great, and sometimes gets it really wrong, in which case I don’t use the suggestion and move on with my work.
However, every now and then it will give me a result that really looks correct, but is wrong in some minor way, and I end up getting burned because it takes me way too long to realize where the error is.