Jeff JarvisI smell AI
Johan Sköld@jeffjarvis Is that actually AP or a news aggregator? The card style and the follow button make me think it's the latter.
@rhoot
It's what the AP provides to Google News
It's what the AP provides to Google News
Stefan Habel@jeffjarvis @rhoot The source article contains the following sentence:
“The largely French-speaking province of Quebec held referendums in 1980 and 1995 over separation. Both failed.”
It is likely that Google’s automated summary mixed that up to mean Alberta.
https://apnews.com/article/canada-alberta-referendum-separation-b3da116c6800347f82da5011ee29f8f3
“The largely French-speaking province of Quebec held referendums in 1980 and 1995 over separation. Both failed.”
It is likely that Google’s automated summary mixed that up to mean Alberta.
https://apnews.com/article/canada-alberta-referendum-separation-b3da116c6800347f82da5011ee29f8f3
Alberta's premier proposes referendum on separation from Canada
The premier of Alberta says she will hold a referendum next year on the energy rich province separating from Canada if citizens gather the required number of signatures on a petition. Speaking on a livestream address, Danielle Smith said she personally does not support the province leaving Canada and expressed hope of a “path forward” for a strong and sovereign Alberta within a united Canada. Smith’s announcement comes just one week after Prime Minister Mark Carney led the Liberal Party to a fourth consecutive federal government. It also comes as U.S. President Donald Trump continues to threaten Canada with tariffs and talk of the country becoming the 51st state.
David Nash@StefanHabel @jeffjarvis @rhoot Eh-yup. That’s almost certainly what happened.
Google Gemini is capable of pulling text from other web sites, which leads all sorts of people to say “it’s a search engine! It doesn’t just process your prompt, it also goes out and finds related information on the web!”
Except it runs all that related online information through the same damned fact mangler that your initial request goes through.
I’ll have to rummage around my collection of LLM fails for the details, but there was one time recently I asked Gemini an astronomy question, and it linked to a Wikipedia page stating (correctly) that Barnard’s Star is about 150 times more massive than the planet Jupiter. Gemini mangled that into Barnard’s Star being 150 times *brighter* than Jupiter.