Google AI Overviews Under Fire for Giving Dangerous and Wrong Answers. For instance, a user searched "How many rocks should I eat each day?" and Google's AI Overview returned an answer suggesting that the user should eat at least one small rock a day (see screenshot attached). LoL! Don't try that at home or anywhere, please.
"Your Money, Your Life seems not to apply to AI Overviews. Google AI Overviews advise users to run with scissors, cook with glue, and eat rocks," Danny Goodwin, Managing Editor of Search Engine Land, wrote. For those not aware, "Your Money, Your Life" (YMYL) is a term coined by Google to describe types of web content that can significantly impact a person's future happiness, health, financial stability, or safety. Because of their potential impact, these pages are held to a higher standard in terms of content quality and trustworthiness. Google aims to ensure that YMYL content is accurate, reliable, and created by experts.
This means that when you search for financial or medical information, Google will prioritize results from websites that demonstrate expertise and authority on the topic, usually websites owned by reputable organizations. But right now, it appears the newly introduced system lacks a firm grasp of the concept.
As usual, people have to be sacrificed to perfect any invention of such magnitude. Talk about the Industrial Revolution: first, the second Industrial Revolution, the third, and now the fourth Industrial Revolution (ongoing). Who those people would be, I don't know. But let it not be you. That's the point of this. Get yourself educated on media literacy. A lack of that form of education spells great doom in this time and age when the media-man is constantly under pressure by its board to milk the system irrespective of consequences. All eyes on the big bag. Also, you must break away from the shackle of Googlization. Cunmen always know how to manipulate it for its selfish aim.
In 2023, I wrote a very lengthy piece on how elections can be rigged/won by capitalizing on the idea that the masses think on media. It happens all the time.
A practical evidence is someone saying: "It is true. I even saw it on Google. I saw it on xxxxx Facebook account" as the only bases for what is true. Nobody has told them that what is true, may not be the truth and the truth may not be the whole truth. You use media, you should understand how media works.
