Skip to content

Add another source for how AI is lying to users at a big scale #62

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Open
ell1e wants to merge 1 commit into
base: main
Choose a base branch
from
Open

Add another source for how AI is lying to users at a big scale #62

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
1 commit
Select commit
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
15 changes: 14 additions & 1 deletion WHY.md
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -478,7 +478,8 @@ https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05746v1
impossible to eliminate them through architectural improvements,
dataset enhancements, or fact-checking mechanisms.

This apparently causes all sorts of real world problems:
This apparently causes all sorts of real world problems for
unaware users:

[The Concern Around Saying AI ‘Hallucinates’](
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65735769
Expand All @@ -491,6 +492,18 @@ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65735769
he said he had never used for legal research before and
was "unaware that its content could be false".

[Testing suggests Google’s AI Overviews tell millions of
lies per hour](
https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/04/analysis-finds-google-ai-overviews-is-wrong-10-percent-of-the-time/
)

> Looking up information on Google today means
confronting AI Overviews, [...]
A new analysis from The New York Times attempted to
assess the accuracy of AI Overviews, finding it’s
right 90 percent of the time. The flip side is
that 1 in 10 AI answers is wrong, [...]


Privacy Concerns
----------------
Expand Down