Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

#Google putting wrong medical advice in their #AI Overviews.

This is not funny. It is not acceptable. Today I saw someone who had asked a health-related question to Google Search. The AI Overview presented mixed-up, wrong information. I urged the person to ignore the AI Overview and use the regular site links.

They didn't know there were any regular site links, because the AI Overview filled essentially their entire window and they didn't know to scroll down. This is a common situation with busy, nontechie users.

They have depended on Google to point them at accurate information for so many years, and now Google Search spews out convincing looking AI garbage. This is not an anomaly.

Google's AI Overviews are full of wrong, partially wrong (even more dangerous!), and just plain misinformation. Answers that are completely reversed from supposed source pages because the AI didn't understand the wording. Measurements wrong. Math wrong.

It doesn't matter how often AI Overviews are correct, because you NEVER KNOW when they're going to be wrong, either completely or partly (again, mixing true with false -- like contaminating a well).

And now Google is trying to convince users to use "AI Search" instead -- "Hey Ma', no more list of blue links!" -- making it even harder to see that so many of their answers are, if you'll excuse the expression, bulls*it, sometimes dangerous as well.

This is unconscionable. Frankly, whether Google understands this or not, this behavior is uncaring and evil. Apparently Google's leadership no longer feels any shame at all. Disgusting.

If only I could see what the connection was

nice and clean via Explicit Resource Management 🥳

https://v8.dev/features/explicit-resource-management

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@mauve The Master replied: "That programmer has mastered the Tao. They've gone beyond the need for design; they do not become angry when the system crashes, but accept the universe without concern. They have gone beyond the need for documentation; they no longer cares if anyone else sees their code. They've gone beyond the need for testing; each of their programs are perfect within themselves, serene and elegant, their purpose self-evident. Truly, they have entered the mystery of Tao."

Every time I read that another tech CEO wants to make his company into an Everything App with passport-rigorous real-world ID of users, I think of how much I hate it when people try to send me actual important communication via Facebook messenger.

Every tech CEO thinks he's going to be dictator of his own little corporate state, but really we're just all going to be more isolated because all our family members chose (or got hired by) different walled gardens and never just send an email.

@mauve @forgejo Still in foundational stages of implementation, see the road map https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation/src/branch/main/FederationRoadmap.md

MacOS: "wow you've put a lot of text in this text field on this web page, but I'm going to hide the scrollbars because they aren't aesthetically pleasing"

Me: "but I need to scroll back to the start of this long line I've put in this web form"

MacOS: "if you start horizontally scrolling, I'll make the scrollbars appear for you"

Me: slowly starts 2 finger scrolling to the right to get back to the start of the line

Safari: "Trackpad gesture for 'back' detected, say goodbye to your data while I load the previous page"

In light of GitHub going full genAI agents, which will likely lead to a flood of garbage PRs that will make dependabot nags a joke:

Would other foss maintainers with projects on GitHub be interested in some kind of event where we all get together and try moving our projects over to @Codeberg?

I’m thinking of it as a way to both promote our foss projects, provide mutual support during the moves, find solutions to small cuts we run into along the way, and just generally have fun together?

Boosts and ideas welcome!

If anyone is interested in talking more about this or participating, even if you’re not a core maintainer for a project, I’ve created Discord and Matrix places we can start chatting in: https://discord.gg/fcSeuv56qp and https://matrix.to/#/%23nohub:matrix.org

#FOSS #OpenSource #NoAI #GitHub #Rust #RustLang

so true bestie