Dallas Express:
Google’s AI Overview falsely stated that legendary singer Diana Ross was arrested for cocaine possession and entered rehab in 1992—claims not supported by any known record.
The statement, surfaced through Google’s new “AI Overview” feature in response to a basic search from The Dallas Express on July 30, 2025, stated: “Yes, Diana Ross has publicly admitted to struggling with drug use in the past. In 1992, she was arrested for possession of cocaine and later entered rehab.” It added that she had become an advocate for drug prevention.
That account is not true. more
This brings to mind a fairly recent episode where a lawyer marched into court armed with precedents and caselaw supplied him by AI, most or all of it bogus. The judge was not amused.
^^^ That is something I hadn’t considered…
Talk about the insidious, evil side of AI.
Proof that ai is racist! It probably got Whitney Houston mixed up with Diana because, well, you know, they all look a like even to a data base. 😉
I mean, the giant 4 foot long fake hair would cause one to believe she was high a lot, but still. Not cool.
Get into a conversation with AI regarding medical questions. You will die laughing. And probably die if you follow the suggestions. LOL
Richard Feynman could explain the difference between having a lot of facts on hand and intelligence. His point was that knowledge could be called up at will, the choice of what knowledge to call up and the use of it is intelligence. AI is just knowledge with absolutely NO intelligence. It is probably misnamed on purpose. The same impulse that seeks to overthrow God by ‘creating life’ is seeking to do the same by ‘creating intelligence’. At this point no one has done either, though both have been claimed by many, only to be proven not to be so in due time.
Sue them for one
MillionBillionTrillion Dollars! Mwa-hahah!Walter,
So, instead of AI, it should be called AK.
Artificial Knowledge is as useless as anything coming out of the mouth of your typical braindead leftist.
…computers can lie with a straight face no human can, because a computer neither knows nor cares what the truth is, it only knows what it is told. This is known as the GIGO factor, for Garbage In/Garbage Out.
Also, keep in mind most humans have a heavy technology bias. Some will drive a car off a cliff or a plane into a mountain if a computer tells them to. By elevating machines made by man, humans have weakened the very minds that made those machines.
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
-Frank Herbert, “Dune”
…As a great man once said, “Trust, but verify”.
Never forget how or refuse to think for yourself.
Never.
At least with paper maps it’s hard to get bet lost but GPS maps will give you wrong directions and too many people rely on that information and end up getting hopelessly lost because they follow the GPS instructions. I don’t trust AI, now or ever. I/we don’t need a bunch of HAL 9000’s leading us over the edge of a cliff into oblivion. “But Geoff I’m only doing it for your own good, trust me Geoff.” Sorry, HAL there is no way in hell that I will trust your robotic judgement.
Omit bet.
Aaardvark,
I just got my first Smart(Idiot) Phone Last week.
(Apple 16 from a flipper)
For shits and giggles me and my son both turned on the Compass Feature while sitting right beside each other. They were OFF from True North by at least 40-50 deg. AND differing from each other by at least 15 deg.
Rotating them fully and waiting didn’t make a difference.
A quick review with my family of 4 put me at ease knowing that they all Knew general directions based on SUN & TIME.
The phones were screwed Yesterday but Today seem fine. It was a valuable real time lesson that everyone witnessed.
Thank God we weren’t looking for a Carrier to land on…
Cheers!
Eventually it will get to the point where things will need certification such as: CH (Certified Human)
Kcir – I used to use paper maps, layout a route and make simple instructions I could refer to while driving like:
I90W -> 75S
75S -> 475W
475W -> 24S
24SW -> Ft Wayne
Still works today if GPS hits the shitter.
Harry
Sunday, 10 August 2025, 17:09 at 5:09 pm
“Kcir – I used to use paper maps”
…back in the ’80s/90s we had no GPS to show us on the FD how to get to emergencies and to hospitals. We had to prove we could drive to a given neighborhood unassisted and take a “hospital routes” test to demonstrate we could drive to every local hospital at least 2 different ways, again unassisted, before we could run on a 2 man crew.
As for finding specifics, we had very thick map books that showed every address and every street in detail down to the location of the fire hydrants that were constantly updated, and whoever was sitting in the right hand seat was expected to be the GPS before GPSs even existed.
The Plectron pagers we had then were only voice, no text, so someone involved better be a fast writer with a handy notepad.
We managed to hit every address from any firehouse in under 6 minutes with at least 1 piece of apparatus then somehow, despite this very low tech approach.
I wonder if the tech failed if the kids could do so well now…