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nkingsyyesterday at 11:55 PM3 repliesview on HN

I had an interesting one yesterday. Someone responded to me on Reddit with very official sounding words to make their argument. I was still dubious and googled a few of the concepts they threw out there.

The AI confidently told me they were right. Then I checked the sources, and found the only source that agreed with them was their own Reddit comment!!!


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sota_poptoday at 12:28 AM

I can also relate here, seeking a product review on Sony wh1000x_, Google wrote a nice seeming summary, but scrolling down to some Reddit discussions, stumbled upon a single comment that was very nearly verbatim what the “AI Summary” said, only the ai summary phrased the summary as if it were a sentiment aggregated over many users’ experience. i.e.”users say…”

bryanhogantoday at 1:12 AM

Reddit is heavily filled with bots at this point, feels like every question is made to then promote their product or service using multiple bot accounts.

rwhitmantoday at 12:11 AM

I've found this several times as well. I googled something to dispute a comment in reddit, and google "confirmed" it as accurate, citing what the person said in that exact reddit comment.

Google has become the ouroboros

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