cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/19631567

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The Tow Center for Digital Journalism at the Columbia University in the U.S. conducted tests on eight generative search tools with live search features to assess their abilities to accurately retrieve and cite news content, as well as how they behave when they cannot.

Results in brief:

• Chatbots were generally bad at declining to answer questions they couldn’t answer accurately, offering incorrect or speculative answers instead.
• Premium chatbots provided more confidently incorrect answers than their free counterparts.
• Multiple chatbots seemed to bypass Robot Exclusion Protocol preferences.
• Generative search tools fabricated links and cited syndicated and copied versions of articles.
• Content licensing deals with news sources provided no guara

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/26623355

A woman from Dunfermline has spoken of her shock after an Apple voice-to-text service mistakenly inserted a reference to sex - and an apparent insult - into a message left by a garage.

_{The is what Mrs Littlejohn saw on the voicemail screen in the Phone app on her iPhone after receiving a voicemail from the garage.}

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25419860

I find it funny how certain wordings will trigger the AI and others won't. It also gets it right for a bunch of numbers (which I checked after seeing this error).

This description of C++ is misleading at best (C++ is used for "Air Travel"?), but saying its used to "make Linux" is just wrong.

I was watching a video on orangutans and it made me wonder how well google would handle this question.

Didn't get it quite right... But maybe it's a subtle dig?

Note: I accidentally scrolled the "AI Overview" notation off before taking the first screenshot, but it is there:

Make up your mind Google AI. Is sound faster in air that is less dense or more dense?

Honestly, there is so much wrong in the AI answers that it's hard to know where to start, but the direct contradiction of itself seems like a good start.

This came up after a friend was playing a trivia game. We were looking up what colour the wedges were for the different categories in Trivial Pursuit and it came up with this gem.

Search is "trivial pursuit sports and leisure colour"