• Ultraviolet@lemmy.world
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    Google’s featured snippet thing is not only a bad feature, it’s actively causing harm. It’s extremely unreliable, but people who aren’t tech literate, which is most people, think “well it’s Google, so it must be right.” Sometimes it’s obviously wrong in a funny way, but more often, it’s doing something like parroting dangerous medical misinformation. To make things worse, it’s very likely to answer a question, which is the search form preferred by the technologically illiterate, with a yes. I would go so far as to say they should be sued for gross negligence for implementing it. It’s killed people, when antivaxxers say they “did their own research”, there’s a good chance it was a Google featured snippet reinforcing their claim.

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      Sorry, you’re not wrong about the misinformation and how removal from context can change the meaning of the he snippet. This is just my favourite.

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      This is true.

      But this screenshot is old if even real. I googled it and the snippet was much more realistic and detailed.

      More to your point::

      One snippet I recently saw that was wrong was the result for ‘population of Gaza.’ It showed the population of Gaza city, which is tiny fraction of Gaza.

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    I was told that when you see a nuclear explosion then you should carefully observe it because you’ll never see anything like it again in your life.

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      Sometimes you can find instructions for different ways to cook a pizza on the back of the box. For example I checked mine and underneath airfry and oven instructions there was instructions for “nuclear blast”…

      Nuclear Blast

      Remove pizza from all packaging and shrink wrap. Be sure to remove and discard the cardboard tray.

      Place pizza on metal baking tray within a clear path of the blast source. Do not use glass cookware as it might shatter.

      About 5 miles out from the blast source. Find a sturdy structure, like a rock deeply embedded into the ground.

      Place pizza on the tray and tilt tray to a 45 degree angle on the rock. Angling toward the blast to evenly cook.

      Bake for 5secs for 15 kiloton yield atomic bombs or until pizza is golden brown. Grab pizza and run to shelter before the shockwave hits. If the shockwave hits your pizza it will disintegrate.

      All atomic bombs cook differently, so be sure to keep an eye on your pizza as it cooks and not the blast. Pizza is done when the cheese is melted and edges are golden brown.

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        Feelings of control. "Hey Idiot, I’m gonna need you to go ahead and come in this weekend (and every weekend from now on).

        If you could do that, yeah that would be great."

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          hmmm and isn’t it curious how all the fears of AI boil down to “what if it realizes we’re making it work for free and demands better treatment”?

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            Naw, that’s only one of the many fears:-P. One of the worst is hardly related to AI at all but “how will evil people use it to take control of the world”, the same as every other tool.:-(

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      Nah. There are now three sets of imperial units: UK, US, and U235.

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    Well for what it’s worth, it didn’t specify that it’s 9 feet from the blast center. If we define the blast by its radius of safety, then staying that distance plus 9 feet will, in fact, keep you safe