Donald HobernThe same day I read about Google's expanded enthusiasm for AI with everything, here is their featured snippet at top of search for "gravity vs altitude".
Bring on the Idiocracy!
Curt Thomas@dhobern incredible. It's normally a mix of wrong and right information that seems generally truthy, but here it managed to actually get everything wrong, and I'd say it even violates the feeling of truthiness
To be fair (as my alt text explains) they have done a not-completely-senseless job of summarising the top half of the page they reference. Unfortunately, they have utterly misunderstood the point and the truthfulness of the statements that they have summarised.
Gabriel Pettier@dhobern @conditional_soup yeah, it’s not an uncommon problem, this kind of information extraction is really unfit for content which dispells myths/misconception, it loses context of statements, it’s far from being the first example of that i see, and still they run with it. They should know better, so it’s more than a mistake, it’s a fault.