alt Hacker NewsI don't know what causes this to happen, but I've noticed it too and it distinctly feels like source laundering. How often do people actually verify that the sources say what the AI claims? Probably vanishingly rare, right? Everyone else gets the impression that the claims have actual sources of some kind.
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TeMPOraL • yesterday at 11:27 AM
I'd suspect it's not source laundering, but rather sources themselves being adversarial - poisoned out of spite, or used as SEO.
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In most instances where I've seen it, it's on niche topics where a Reddit post may be the easiest place to find any relevant content.
I expect somewhere in the AI harness there's a branch that effectively mandates "You must always answer."
Which results in it grasping at Reddit comment straws.
And which, in typically modern Google fashion, nobody there gives a shit about fixing, because the PR made their top-level AI KPI go brr.
Google is increasingly proof that you can't run an effective scaled tech company without a Gates or Jobs who occasionally uses the fucking product themselves and descends with fiery vengeance on whatever team drifted too far from user alignment.