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Over 10 percent of factual claims in Google’s AI search summaries aren’t backed by their cited sources, study finds (www.psypost.org)
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[-] ArseAssassin@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 days ago

To test whether the software accurately reported what its sources said, the researchers broke the overviews down into 98,020 individual factual claims. They built an automated verification pipeline, powered by a separate large language model, that read the text of the cited websites.

Uhh...

Maybe you shouldn't have the hallucination machine verify the output of the hallucination machine?

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