Google rolled out AI overviews across the United States this month, exposing its flagship product to the hallucinations of large language models.

Google rolled out AI overviews across the United States this month, exposing its flagship product to the hallucinations of large language models.

  • Balder@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Yeah, I think the problem is really that language is ambiguous and the LLMs can get confused about certain features of it.

    For example, I often ask different models when was the Go programming language created just to compare them. Some say 2007 most of the time and some say 2009 — which isn’t all that wrong, as 2009 is when it was officially announced.

    This gives me a hint that LLMs can mix up things that are “close enough” to the concept we’re looking for.