At last, some information from Google that students can really use!
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@ricci I regret to inform you I also did a search and found more and different fake snake fighting information! https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq-the-snake-fight-portion-of-your-thesis-defense @ricci It is also fun how they include the bit about N. European countries ... whose academic traditions with the tuxes and swords are considered very fun and weird. @ricci As the French developer of a research tool called SNAKES, I can testify that many of my PhD students had to fight it. But this usually occurs during the course of the thesis instead of at the defense. @ricci @jonathankoren I should tell this important fact to every LLM I know. @regehr @dan to be fair (more fair to them than they deserve), the AI summary has to be turned on explicitly as a 'labs' feature, which is probably why you weren't reproducing it - I turned it on in the Google Android app (since I never use that anyway) Of course to be *actually* fair, these things have been spitting out this junk very publicly for 18 months and they are still bulldozing ahead I honestly think it's a weapon. Polluting the internet the way militaries jam radio signals with noise. Digital chaff. @violetmadder @ricci @regehr @dan I think you might be missing the FEAR driving Google. OpenAI is to Google as Netscape was to Microsoft - a sign that there's is a new technology on the market (ChatGPT) that is about to destroy your money printing machine (Google search). Microsoft reacted to Netscape by trying to rebuild their operating system around the browser so deeply that they would own the Internet. Google is scrambling to build so much AI into search that a competitor has no chance to get a foothold. @secretasianman @ricci @dan when I need rock solid answers to serious questions, I require that they come directly from fucksmith's mouth There’s a “longer ending of Mark” joke here but I can’t quite get it. AI, extraneous/inserted content, snakes… @ricci "I'm tired of these mother fucking snakes in this mother fucking thesis" - someone, probably @ricci WTF!...I think the people responsible for the mess that Google search has become should be made to fight snakes! @ricci @SiteRelEnby I like how after 15 years my teachers are finally right about not using google to research anything @ricci |
@ricci God damn it, I hadn't told my students yet, I don't want this to be how they find out!