@Deembe@LouisIngenthron@ct_bergstrom We could go down a rabbit hole with this one, but I posit that "The Free Market" is a hypothetical construct that exists only in the minds of Economics 101 professors.
Before you answer, consider that the very same government could conceivably be run by a Trump presidency in a couple years. Do you want that administration to have the power to define and remove "misinformation" online?
I'll take the free market over that dystopia any day.
@ct_bergstrom Google has been highlighting bad answers in its “quick answer” since before ChatGPT3 was around
“Not only does Google, the world’s preeminent index of information, tell its users that caramelizing onions takes ‘about 5 minutes’—it pulls that information from an article whose entire point was to tell people exactly the opposite.” https://gizmodo.com/googles-algorithm-is-lying-to-you-about-onions-and-blam-1793057789
@adamrice@ct_bergstrom This is true, but I think the concern is that LLM output is causing a feedback loop that speeds up this process to a rate that can't be manually corrected by humans.
@ct_bergstrom I don't fully understand the ignorance when it comes to tech. We all know that if a politician's followers follow them devoutly. Without question. Then any and everything that politicians says no matter how illogical or damaging to their constituents...their follows will repeat.
And yet. When it comes to tech. People forget developers exist.
@ct_bergstrom at least Ars included that, but this is a strong reason for using solid Truth-Based Headlines, skipping shitty clickbaity ones, and adhering to the #TruthSandwich
@ct_bergstrom these egregious examples are amusing (and worrying). But I’m more concerned with the far more common subtle errors and omissions that are increasingly common with Google searches (on all of their apps) thanks to their now obsession with trying to present “the answer”
Examples I’ve seen recently: omitting many restaurants even when zoomed in on Google maps (for a search for restaurants! Most often ethnic ones)
Combining unrelated items into the answer (hedge & beard trimmers mixed
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