@kekekuku @Em0nM4stodon *To the wrong computer program.* Computers have been able to automatically gen. text for a very long time now, LLMs and image generation models do the same, but use a ton of ripped off content from a thousand places as training for this text generation. Or should I say text regurgitation? Ultimately, we already have search engines, which are not perfect, disinfo is common online. However, at least the search engine won't automatically gen. dangerously wrong medical advice, and make it sound accurate and authoritative, just because I was wondering if maltodextrin was a safe additive!

I can understand wanting to gen. a bunch of nonsense text, there are much older programs which do just that; and to your point the use of LLMs as a search engine certainly qualifies as a mistake by the human user. However, it is also an error of Microsoft to have included an AI overview, before the other listed websites on their search engine. If the AI is not meant to be used as search engine, then why search engine shaped?! Why market LLMs as a search engine replacer, if you aren't supposed to use them to look for accurate information of a very broad range of topics? AI is a paper tiger, useful at first glance, but the use cases dissolve under any pressure.