this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2025
12 points (100.0% liked)

TechTakes

2083 readers
209 users here now

Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.

For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
dgerard@awful.systems
12
Nobody clicks past Google’s AI Overviews (pivot-to-ai.com)
submitted 1 day ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
6 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

podcast version
video version

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Convenience is king, and never mind accuracy.

[–] HedyL@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If I'm not mistaken, even in pre-LLM days, Google had some kind of automated summaries which were sometimes wrong. Those bothered me less. The AI hallucinations appear to be on a whole new level of wrong (or is this just my personal belief - are there any statistics about this?).

[–] zogwarg@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago

Subjectively speaking:

  1. Pre-LLM summaries were for the most part actually short.
  2. They were more directly lifted from human written sources, I vaguely remember lawsuits or the threat of lawsuits by newspapers over google infoboxes and copyright infringement in pre-2019 days, but i couldn't find anything very conclusive with a quick search.
  3. They didn't have the sycophantic—hey look at me I'm a genius—overly-(and wrong)-detailed tone that the current batch has.