I just got full-on hallucination from a
@Google search.

Why would Google us a more expensive, less reliable search? Because it's easier to hack outcomes with "guardrails"?

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#AIEthics cc @simon @1br0wn @woody

@j2bryson @Google @simon @1br0wn @woody This isn't like GenAi where content is generated. Google hasn't been exactly matching by default for a long time now. Including quotes around a sentence usually helps, for me this basically just finds the original video on YT and Instagram: google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22T

A general purpose search engine is not trying to "attribute" things, in most cases it is helpful for it to return e.g. paraphrases or answers to questions etc.

@spoltier @Google @simon @1br0wn @woody I disagree (and I do have some expertise in this area.)
1) of course, I did start with double quotes [edit: whoops, no I didn't! But 2 & 3 still hold]
2) look at the sentences it claims to have found in the "snippet"
3) look at the actual text.

The preview text on the page of the google search is a full-on hallucination – a reconstruction of the source material along the lines of the prompt.

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@j2bryson @Google @simon @1br0wn @woody sorry for missing that! Never seen that before, that is crazy and sinister, I would always expect the link preview to match some actual snippet in the source page...

@j2bryson @Google @simon @1br0wn @woody now I wonder if this is a LinkedIn bug, as I tried the same search without quotes and got a link to a different LinkedIn post by a different person, which does seem to contain the quote linkedin.com/posts/veroniqueba

(LinkedIn often pretends people I know work at a company I'm looking at, but then I click through and it turns out not to be the case).

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