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[–] shittydwarf@piefed.social 165 points 1 month ago

Trump has dementia confirmed

[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 104 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Aaaand this is how we know he has dementia.

[–] NoodlePoint@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Like Duterte and his impairment caused by fentanyl, he is but a puppet for a bunch of murderous cunts who keep him propped up if only to have him sign their policies favoring them for profit.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Like a number of Roman emperors or European kings

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And shits his pants. Beside being a cunt all his life.

He can’t be a cunt. He lacks the warmth and depth, not to mention utility.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 91 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Forget the spokesperson, just ask Google AI directly:

AI on Google Search, including the AI Overviews in search, does not provide summaries on topics involving Donald Trump and dementia. This is due to risk aversion, sensitivity to political topics, and recent legal challenges. Instead, these searches return a list of traditional web links.

Reasons for the lack of response

  • Risk of misinformation: AI-generated conclusions about a public figure's health could spread misinformation. The mental acuity of Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, the oldest presidents in U.S. history, is a topic of public discussion.
  • Avoiding political sensitivity: AI models often have restrictions on sensitive or controversial topics to avoid biased responses. Google and other tech companies are cautious about how their AI products respond to election-related or partisan queries.
  • Legal history with Trump: Google's handling of Trump-related content may be influenced by recent legal and political issues. In 2025, Google paid a $24.5 million settlement in a lawsuit related to the suspension of Trump's YouTube account.
  • Inconsistent application of AI summaries: Some users report that searches about other politicians, like Barack Obama or Joe Biden, may return an AI-generated response, though this varies. This inconsistency has led to criticism that the AI applies selective censorship.

Google's statement A Google spokesperson stated that AI Overview and AI Mode do not always show answers to all queries, especially sensitive or complex ones. The company suggests that users rely on traditional search results in such cases.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Okay, but why? LLMs always give a response, they’re trained to give a response regardless of accuracy. This entire wall of text could be completely made up.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So, essentially the same as a company spokesperson!

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Absolutely. It's the same untrustworthy substanceless nonsense.

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Now ask it about Biden and dementia and see if it does the same thing. 🤔

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, we consistently give the wrong answer on any divisive and sensitive topic, but THIS particular issue we will skip because we wouldn't want somebody to feel like we don't have our tongue solidly lodged up their ass

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah, it's insanely inept. They could have restricted the AI from answering "any question about a public figure and dementia" or even "the health information about a politician" or whatever if they were genuinely concerned. But they blocked only specifically Trump and dementia? It's almost intentionally obvious.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Instead, these searches return a list of traditional web links.

"Oh...oh okay. So you know what that is. Why are unable to provide traditional web links for ALL my searches? Because, I'm gonna be honest with you Google. I never asked for you to 'summarize' my web results and the fact that you can turn it off at your discretion tells me that you could turn it off for everyone."

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You don't have to use Google, you know...

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[–] leastaction@lemmy.ca 83 points 1 month ago

Duckduckgo, on the other hand ...

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 53 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wtf, confirmed. Ask about any person, any president on if they have dementia or not and it'll answer

Ask about trump and it refused to interact, just dumps a search results window with funnily enough the first result being a page about how Google is censoring this

[–] oppy1984@lemdro.id 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Surfacing the result of how they are censoring the results might be a canary in a coal mine, we can't say we're doing it but we can make the top result someone else saying we're doing it.

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[–] Buffalobuffalo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 1 month ago (3 children)

"what does dementia look like in 47th presidents"

Works good, search gets the wink and nudge.

[–] Dirac@lemmy.today 9 points 1 month ago

Can confirm 😂

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

also works if you replace "trump" with "the president of the usa" in your search:

1000000874

edit: it seems like it's inserting Biden into the prompt in the background now...

1000000877

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[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Many are saying it's the worst dementia they have seen. The best people in fact.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

The most tremendous dementia they have seen. The greatest people have looked at me and said it's the biggest, greatest case they have seen. The biggest of all time.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

This is so succinctly Trump. 😂 Bravo! Really captures the essence in one and a half sentences.

[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Dimensia Donny seems like a nickname that could fit

[–] comador@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] db2@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] Chozo@fedia.io 5 points 1 month ago

That's an example of it specifically not working.

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[–] DERRALEXANO@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Same for searching: “did Elon Musk make a nazi salute?” Only got a response when I replaced “nazi salute” with “offensive gesture”. Ok google

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[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 month ago

Make Alzheimer's Great Again

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 month ago

So you're saying that we should do more AI searches for "Trump Dementia"

... and use variations of it like ... "Trump old losing his mind", "Trump old senile", "Trump dementia don", "Donny Dementia", "Ding Dong Dementia Donny Trump"

[–] kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 month ago
[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Google AI has dementia

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Good thing I stopped using google a long time ago.

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[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)

For fucks sake! Who really cares what Google’s shitty AI does? You can still search articles written by actual human beings. Has AI become so fundamental to our daily routine that we’re going to upset ourselves over what info the sleazeballs that created it allow it to produce?

Maybe try reading real information?

[–] FriskyDingo@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago

It's further evidence of their compliance. This is useful news for people who haven't caught on yet.

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[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 month ago

Can I get unavailable AI overviews for all my searches? Then Google has a chance to be usable again

[–] Cyberflunk@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Kagi,brave, startpage, ddg, are good to go. Trump def has dementia

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] vpklotar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I've been a Kagi user for over a year and I usually hate AI summaries. Though I must say I love how Kagi has implemented them as it gives sources where it found the info so you can dig deeper and see if what it said was actually correct.

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[–] disconnectikacio@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Google is evil.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Ok, so don’t look for an AI response? Sure, Google censoring results is shit, google NOT censoring results about the same query about Biden is even shittier, but you still get search results about the question.

[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

kagi is the best search engine right now. hands down. google can suck it.

[–] MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

There really has not been a better time than the late 90s to launch a new better search engine and supplant google

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