Analysis Finds Google's AI Overviews Serve Misinformation at Massive Scale
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Frank Landymore
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Summary
A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times and conducted by AI startup Oumi found that Google's AI Overviews are accurate only about 91% of the time. While this may seem impressive, the scale of Google's search volume means that the 9% error rate translates to roughly five trillion incorrect answers served to users — a scale of misinformation that may be virtually unprecedented in human history.
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· 3 pulledGoogle's AI Overviews are peddling misinformation on a scale that may be virtually unprecedented in human history.
A recent analysis conducted by the AI startup Oumi at the behest of The New York Times found that the AI-generated summaries, which appear above Google search results, are accurate around 91 percent of the time.
In a sense, that may sound like an impressive figure. But here's an even more impressive one: five trillion. That's roughly
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