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AI Overviews hallucinates that Airbus not Boeing involved in Air India crash

by kristianp on 6/14/25, 11:42 PM with 7 comments

• by orionblastar on 6/14/25, 11:46 PM

  This is concerning, AI has to be accurate for it to work well. It can't hallucinate. Until this problem is fixed, we still need people to do the work.

• by kristianp on 6/14/25, 11:53 PM

  The search used was "last airbus fatal crash".

• by kristianp on 6/14/25, 11:46 PM

  I've found Google's AI overview to be so bad it's probably spreading misinformation. It has no ability to assess the correctness of it's results. I can only assume its enabled so that google can collect training data from user feedback on the feature.

  For instance I asked google how many Apple shares one person owned, it plucked a number from an article, but that was for a deal Apple made, and the person just happened to be involved in the deal.