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Google AI Overviews put people at risk of harm with misleading health advice (www.theguardian.com)

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Exclusive: Inaccurate information presented in summaries, Guardian investigation finds

People are being put at risk of harm by false and misleading health information in Google’s artificial intelligence summaries, a Guardian investigation has found.

The company has said its AI Overviews, which use generative AI to provide snapshots of essential information about a topic or question, are “helpful” and “reliable”.

But some of the summaries, which appear at the top of search results, served up inaccurate health information and put people at risk of harm.

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[–] YoiksAndAway@piefed.zip 5 points 4 days ago

If you must use Google:

https://udm14.com/

This eliminates AI horseshit.