Google announced that is taking “quick action” to improve its new search results powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI)after users mocked errors such as Barack Obama being the first Muslim president of the United States.
Google users turned to different social networks to criticize the erroneous responses generated by the ““AI Overviews” in English) to questions like whether people should eat rocks or look at the sun, or how many Muslim American leaders there have been.
Bug Check
“Many of the examples we have seen were unusual queries, and we have also seen examples that were manipulated or that we were unable to reproduce,” a Google spokesperson told AFP.
“We are taking swift action where appropriate under our content policies.” and Using these examples to develop broader improvements to our systems, some of which have already begun to be deployed,” he concluded.
The Obama example was flagged to Google as violating its policies and was removed, according to the spokesperson. One of the “AI Summaries” responses, which stated that adding non-toxic glue to pizza sauce was a way to prevent cheese from slipping, was traced to a child's post on Reddit, leading some social media users to wonder if the AI was so naive as to believe everything it reads on the internet.
Reliable information
According to the Silicon Valley giant, the vast majority of responses prepared by Their AI provides reliable information and the security barriers built into the technology are designed to prevent harmful content from appearing.
The recent introduction of these summaries of Google's search engine in the United States has been one of its biggest changes since its creation. It will soon spread to other countries. Since its launch, Traditional Google search results began displaying an AI-generated summary at the top of the page before the more typical display of links.