DuckDuckGo made sunglasses that do absolutely nothing, and they sold out
https://www.techspot.com/news/113357-duckduckgo-made-sunglasses-do-absolutely-nothing-they-sold.html
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· in reply to @Godort@lemmy.ca
I’d say most people don’t really care
Most people are idiots.
As mostly a person I’m offended!
As an idiot, I am too!
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If enough people were that bothered about a box with an AI overview, it wouldn’t be there. Simple as that. The thing is that the overview turns out to be helpful in some cases, despite what the haters think.
Recently, my mom killed one of her plants, because she searched for something to use as organic fertilizer and the ai summary suggested to add coffee grounds mixed with water daily. She realized it was a fake information and isn’t trusting anything from internet searchers anymore. I wonder if at some point it will happen to most non-tech people, and search usage will go down heavily.
Coffee grounds can be helpful to add to fertilizer, but you need more than just coffee grounds: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11241280/
This being partially right is probably exactly how it ended up in the training data. But AI is too dumb to understand which parts are relevant/important.