Both Google's and Bing's "let's be a middleman of information by inference" was never good but it's been getting really bad lately. I regularly get wrong information, so those page elements are worse than useless. They're just in my way. It's incredible... Google itself is now the W3Schools of search results.
Worse than that, Google on mobile is now trying to be even more "smart" by inferring related contexts. At the top there's usually "Images" "News" "Shopping" "Videos" "Maps" etc. But now this bar is unreliable. I just looked up "Muffin Recipes" and that top bar is: "Videos" "Images" "Chocolate" "Chocolate Chip" "Easy" "Best" "Moist" etc. And not always in that order. Sometimes I have to scroll to find "Images".
Edit: Allow me to be crystal clear: If `Chocolate` was always an option, sibling to News, Images, Videos, Maps, I would be much happier.
'Chocolate' is always an option, sibling to News, Images, Videos, Maps... and just like News, Images, Videos, Maps... it shows you webpages that are Chocolate. No not webpages featuring Chocolate, the pages content has nothing to do with chocolate. The informational content of the pages is all embedded in chocolate. And you can't have any. Sorry, you must have Android 37+ Neutella Kinder version or higher to view this content. Your hardware doesn't support this feature yet.
Aha! So that’s where it comes from…
So, if wikidata is where bing gets it’s facts about the world, that opens the door to lots of pranks. And edit wars :)
This combined with all this new AI stuff is going to lead to some really fun exploits; think automated versions of the guy who edited a band's wikipedia page to get let backstage.
(When Sparks played on Top of the Pops in 1974, supposedly John Lennon called up Ringo to say “You won’t believe what’s on television. Marc Bolan is playing a song with Adolph Hitler!” … and indeed watching https://youtube.com/watch?v=-ztSKDbDRXc that sounds about right!)
I've found that Bard and Bing are incessant people pleasers. You can tell it anything you want and it will say something like "Oh, sorry, you're right" and regurgitate whatever bullshit you've given it back to you. I don't see how anyone thinks these are useful for fact retrieval.
This is Peak GPTs . These tools are great, but not for this thing. An approximation engine will approximate Radiohead as well. Time to go back to the drawing board to make something better than gpt
> No, Hitler was not part of Radiohead. Radiohead is a British rock band that formed in 1985¹. Hitler was a German dictator who died in 1945². The only connection between them is that Radiohead has a song called Karma Police where they mention a girl with a Hitler hairdo
These obviously wrong answers are fun to talk about, but think about all the cases where the misinformation isn't as blatant and millions of people are accepting it without question. And that's going to be 100x worse as LLMs are more widely used for getting information.
If this were Star Trek: Picard, we’d find out that Hitler’s brain was transferred into an android body in 1945 and he wrote the song “Paranoid Android” fifty years later.
It also doesn’t seem to matter how you ask the question, so it’s not just a small glitch.
Deep down Bing really believes that Hitler is a member of radiohead.
Is someone gaslighting bing to conclude this, or how could it start believing this? I’m sure there are very, very few web pages or other written material claiming that Hitler is a member of radiohead…
It's not using some fancy AI. As another user pointed out here, it's just pulling the results from Wikipedia. A troll from Mexico replaced Philip Selway with Hitler.
Worse than that, Google on mobile is now trying to be even more "smart" by inferring related contexts. At the top there's usually "Images" "News" "Shopping" "Videos" "Maps" etc. But now this bar is unreliable. I just looked up "Muffin Recipes" and that top bar is: "Videos" "Images" "Chocolate" "Chocolate Chip" "Easy" "Best" "Moist" etc. And not always in that order. Sometimes I have to scroll to find "Images".
Edit: Allow me to be crystal clear: If `Chocolate` was always an option, sibling to News, Images, Videos, Maps, I would be much happier.