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And that’s basically it!
Oh, it’s worse than that.
Google’s “AI” results feed you things for 10 year old Reddit posts that are subtle (but sometimes, also not so subtle) bullshit.
Whatever they’re using to curate training data is evidently pretty awful at detecting shitposts.
Bold of you to assume they're curating their training data.
Those underpaid Indians probably aren't very good at picking up irony, even if they give a shit.
Most of the curation or fine tuning is done in low income African countries so this is little surprising. They‘re cheap labour but you can‘t expect them to reliably detect sarcasm or notice mistakes in specialized fields. They basically give a thumbs up whenever the AI sounds convincing. Of course that includes instances where it‘s confidently wrong and that appears to be most of the time with this model.
It's not a training data issue, look up Retrieval Augmented Generation. It's basically serving up stuff on the web and taking it as gospel.
That's bullwhip why can't it just think for itself
c/literallytheonion
Eventho GPT is far from perfect, this does show how far behind google still is on AI.
Edit: GPT4o answer to exactly same question, which also explains why google failed:
"The Onion" humorously refers to itself as "America's Finest News Source." It's a satirical news organization known for its parody articles on international, national, and local news, mocking traditional news media and public figures. Despite its comedic nature, it has gained a reputation for its sharp wit and clever commentary on contemporary issues.
Theres so many fake screenshots from this im not believing another one.
I did not know about avclub up to now. So thanks for letting me know.