Searching for that phrase now shows your blog post as the top reference, and the AI overview now says it's a "nonsensical phrase used to illustrate how search engines can generate misleading or fabricated explanations for arbitrary inputs"! :O
man google's ai uses context clues better than some people I know. I kinda wish it wouldn't though, because it gives somewhat real sounding answers to things like that that actually have a different meaning because of historical and cultural context that it's not aware of. it should let you know when it's making something up using it's limited awareness of word meanings vs something that's an actual phrase that people use.
lol so it's getting that bad. Assigning meaning to random phrases is BS. If it keeps on going it'll start attributing meaning to misspelled words.
LLMs are only as good or bad as they are created - or their function / parameters? Google got real sad mid 00s - it's all about the money now isn't it.
OK wow that actually fits here. https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/23/meaning-slop/
Searching for that phrase now shows your blog post as the top reference, and the AI overview now says it's a "nonsensical phrase used to illustrate how search engines can generate misleading or fabricated explanations for arbitrary inputs"! :O
man google's ai uses context clues better than some people I know. I kinda wish it wouldn't though, because it gives somewhat real sounding answers to things like that that actually have a different meaning because of historical and cultural context that it's not aware of. it should let you know when it's making something up using it's limited awareness of word meanings vs something that's an actual phrase that people use.
lol so it's getting that bad. Assigning meaning to random phrases is BS. If it keeps on going it'll start attributing meaning to misspelled words.
LLMs are only as good or bad as they are created - or their function / parameters? Google got real sad mid 00s - it's all about the money now isn't it.
Topic recently [1] re Google A.I. BSing.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43748171 ('Epistemological Slop: Lies, Damned Lies, and Google' - <newcartographies.com>)
Isn't this how proverbs come to life? "Bobs your uncle" - all these proverbs are made up...
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