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minus-squareafraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·9 months agoHuman: Hey Google can you tell me how this band got started and the significance of their first album? Google: the lead singer was just admitted to rehab and you won’t believe what happens next! Human: oh that’s sad, I hope they get the help they need but about my questions– Google: the lead singer was just admitted to rehab and you won’t believe what happens next! Google: the lead singer was just admitted to rehab and you won’t believe what happens next! Google: the lead singer was just admitted to rehab and you won’t believe what happens next! Google: the lead singer was just admitted to rehab and you won’t believe what happens next! Google: the lead singer was just admitted to rehab and you won’t believe what happens next! Google: the lead singer was just admitted to rehab and you won’t believe what happens next! Google: the lead singer was just admitted to rehab and you won’t believe what happens next! Google: the lead singer was just admitted to rehab and you won’t believe what happens next! Google: the lead singer was just admitted to rehab and you won’t believe what happens next! Google: the lead singer was just admitted to rehab and you won’t believe what happens next!
minus-squareUNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·9 months agoThis is actually a slight improvement
minus-squareBradleyUffner@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·9 months agoThat’s more the type of prompt you would give a LLM, rather than a search engine. I’m not surprised that it results in garbage.
Human: Hey Google can you tell me how this band got started and the significance of their first album?
Google: the lead singer was just admitted to rehab and you won’t believe what happens next!
Human: oh that’s sad, I hope they get the help they need but about my questions–
Google: the lead singer was just admitted to rehab and you won’t believe what happens next!
Google: the lead singer was just admitted to rehab and you won’t believe what happens next!
Google: the lead singer was just admitted to rehab and you won’t believe what happens next!
Google: the lead singer was just admitted to rehab and you won’t believe what happens next!
Google: the lead singer was just admitted to rehab and you won’t believe what happens next!
Google: the lead singer was just admitted to rehab and you won’t believe what happens next!
Google: the lead singer was just admitted to rehab and you won’t believe what happens next!
Google: the lead singer was just admitted to rehab and you won’t believe what happens next!
Google: the lead singer was just admitted to rehab and you won’t believe what happens next!
Google: the lead singer was just admitted to rehab and you won’t believe what happens next!
This is actually a slight improvement
That’s more the type of prompt you would give a LLM, rather than a search engine. I’m not surprised that it results in garbage.