A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou
Holy shit, this is amazing! I might do a longer post on the stupid google AI overview at some point because I think it provides a really illustrative test-case for what kind of search-queques an LLm chat-bot can complete relatively reliably and which ones are pretty much guaranteed to cause an insane illustration, but I also think the google-AI is particularly good at pretending it's legit and giving you the feeling that it won't just dream up some bullshit - it gives you some sources after all, right? Are you going to check them and find out that the thing pretty much just takes the first 3 google-results and copy-pasts paragraphs which contain at least one of the nouns showing up in your prompt?! (that's exactly what it does pretty much - often that works, but if ot doesn't the results are frustrating)
Since I'm writing this on my lunchbreak I'll keep it short but consider the following 2 times the thing royally fucked me over:
1. I am currently playing Titanquest 2 and was wondering how I could remove talismans from weapon's sockets - in the first Titanquest game, there was an enchanter NPC you could go to and either destroy a piece of equipmemt to get all the socketed upgrades or destroy the upgrades to free up the socket - I was 10ish hours into the second game and hadn't found that NPC yet so I thought I'd google because I wanted to move some poison-damage bonus from my old dagger to the sweet new sword I had found - sure enough, google AI spit out a summary which sounded legit at first, started off with 'in the game Titanquest 2' (even putting the title in bold), referenced 1-2 tidbit about the game that checked out and then gave instructions which sounded very similar tp Titanquest 1... a little TOO SIMILAR - nevertheless, i started looking for the enchanter, didn't find them, thought maybe I just wasn't far enought, continued with the story for 1-2 more hours, the next larger map came, alomg with a new hub town, but still no enchanter... then I started klicking around in the menue and found out that you apparently cam just de-socket and re-socket stuff in the inventory by doing right-click (and maybe shift? not sure and won't fire up the game on lunchbreak at work) in the item-description! Cut to me checking back witht the stupid google AI: sure enough, it had given me a bunch of results on Titanquest 1 but actually fucking changed the titles of the forum-posts and articles it listed to say 'titanquest 2' alongside stating confidently several times that the enchanter npc is still in the game!
2. This one is even stupuder but at least I immediately called it...: so I was messing around with Mogghunter's 'linear side battler' plugin for RPG Maker MV and was wondering how to transform enemies in sidescroller mode - what's the point in making a game if bosses can't have multiple phases afterall - I had noticed that the usual 'transform enemy' function in RPG maker as well as the corresponding Java scriptcall you't usually use for that didn't work with the plugin because the plugin handles loding in the graphic assets when creating a new scene such as a battle differemtly from stamdard rpg maker. I had already messed around with the code of the plugin and gotten it to at least transform the enemy 'on paper' and load in the new database-object with their new set of moves etc. but atill sidn't update the graphics. Sinve people love transformimg boss enemies and a lot of people also use the Mogghunter series of plugins for MV I thought some other asshole om reddit or in the rpg maker forums might have encountered the same problem as me - most of you already know what I'm going to say next so let's keep it short...: Google AI did not provide any usefull articles, but it repeatedly stated in a very confident tone, that the Transform Enemy command works fine actually while correctly repeating the name of the plugin that we have just established it doesn't fucking work with - you want to know what it's sources were: the basic ass wiki page on the Transform Enemy command in RPG Maker MV, the homepage for the Plugin (no infor about transforming enemies or about any compatibility issues for that matter) and a forum post stating that they encountered the same problem as me but also not providing any solution!
TLDR: If what you want to know is in anyway 'specialized knowledge' or related to a nieche interest i.e. the kind of stuff I'd intuitively think a bot able to summarize a whole bunch of google-results SHOULD be usefull for, it absolutely WILL POOP ITSELF and in the time you need to figure out where it went wrong you could likely just find thenanswer yourself without opening a huge moral can of worms about intellectual property, finite ressources ans the influence of megacorporations on our collective knowledge-production 🤔
