Could everyone stop quoting the “hilarious” wrong answers given by google ai? It wasted a bottle of water to tell you that terrible joke, water is life, ai bullshit is death, what part of this is hard to understand
I'm a reference librarian and part of our work right now with weeding our collection has involved using search engines to see if some of our older materials are uploaded anywhere online. Right now I'm doing a couple hundred google searches each day and it's frustrating that whether I like it or not,
I'm forced to engage with AI. I can check archive.org and Hathitrust directly, but some of these books aren't there but are in other databases. I have to account for the fact that students who look for X or Y material may just do a google search.
I don't get a say in whether or not EBSCO is going to include an AI search option whenever a user interacts with our catalog. I can tell students that AI is useless or not to trust google results, but they are still going to reach out to me with requests based on that.
All that to say that yes there are people doing silly searches and posting them for clout, but there are also people posting serious questions and getting back AI results and I hope that in those cases they do get posted so that people can see how garbage this stuff is.
