So what you are saying is that Gemini is basically useless?
Good to know. Thanks for clarifying that Google!
The cheese shop should sue Google for copyright infringement. That's also blatant plagiarism, and Google should get an F for the course.
This is a huge fail for Gemini. Google, of all companies, should know the incentives to distort information aggregators for monetary gain (just look at how bad search results are these days). It's 100% expected that people will try to game LLMs the same way. It's entirely dependent on the LLMs to counteract this.
With an AI query I get one response back and although people are trying to teach their AI tools to cite sources, this is not universal.
A healthy hop I would say, keeping in mind that this was showing off the best side of it in a commercial. So it just did a Google search, got a wrong factual result, the LLM couldn’t verify it was bogus, regurgitated it as is, and the executive piped in with “acshually, it’s just a plain old search result” somehow not realizing that just makes them look even worse.
You're looking for black-and-white truth, while the real world is actually more interested in efficiency.
I can spend 2 days scouring documentation and forum posts and experimenting to get ffmpeg or Matplotlib to produce exactly the results I want. Or I can just ask ChatGPT and check if its code works, and if it doesn't maybe spend 10 minutes correcting it so it does, or refining the prompt so it does.
And so you're also missing the part where verifying the correctness of output is very often many orders of magnitude faster than coming up with the output in the first place.
It was a verbatim copy of the text, which raises the question about copyright. I guess "Wisconsin Cheese Mart" could probably sue Google, but more importantly, this would also mean that it is capable of making verbatim copies of the books contained in Anna's Archive.
That is, assuming that Google also did torrent the books like Meta did, which is very likely.
Funny how they call it "reflection", and not "copy". Maybe that's the way to win in courts: I didn't copy that movie, that was just a reflection of it.
Wouldn't this user of Gemini, who would copy Gemini's response to use this text in their ads, potentially get into copyright troubles with "Wisconsin Cheese Mart"?
I don't think it's fair to frame this is an AI issue. The internet is simply full of misinformation. Should AI outperform the average human and detect misinformation? Maybe. But I don't think that's part of the current value prop, at least not for "non-reasoning" models. If you use an LLM you should be aware that what you're getting is whatever is most commonly found on the web. If that's not what you want, don't use an LLM.