Google's AI-Generated Search Results Keep Citing The Onion

[usonian]

But aren't as funny?

https://www.readtpa.com/p/googles-ai-generated-search-results-9e1

A Google search for the phrase “how many rocks should I eat each day” returned an AI-generated result citing “UC Berkeley geologists” who suggest people eat “at least one small rock a day.” It turns out that the actual source of this information was a 2021 article from the satirical website The Onion.



Onion CEO Ben Collins noticed this and another example, posting them on Bluesky. The second example, a search for “what color highlighters do the CIA use,” brings up a result that indirectly cites The Onion’s 2005 article, “CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years.”



Like so: From The Onion


Onions in, garbage out?

[Silent Type]

1. Sounds like AI needs a tweak. Although, anyone who would research eating one or more rocks a day,

needs some native intelligence.

Hope AI isn’t using trump as a source.

[usonian]

2. I haven't heard any reports of such, though

if you read further in the linked article, it mentions:

“How the right-wing echo chamber constructed a Biden assassination plot against Trump” (Media Matters for America, Matt Gertz, 5/22/24)

Over a handful of hours on Tuesday, the right’s conspiracy theory ecosystem concocted a sinister plot by President Joe Biden to assassinate his predecessor out of the banal fact that FBI agents received standard instructions on the use of force before conducting a court-ordered search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in 2022.

Wonder how long it will take ....

[Silent Type]

3. That's a big concern going into election. The crud that will come out near November could flip an election.

[Arne]

4. The I am not a human party

wins 2024 election, IBM Watson is new president.
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