[nkingsy]

I had an interesting one yesterday. Someone responded to me on Reddit with very official sounding words to make their argument. I was still dubious and googled a few of the concepts they threw out there.

The AI confidently told me they were right. Then I checked the sources, and found the only source that agreed with them was their own Reddit comment!!!

[sota_pop]

I can also relate here, seeking a product review on Sony wh1000x_, Google wrote a nice seeming summary, but scrolling down to some Reddit discussions, stumbled upon a single comment that was very nearly verbatim what the “AI Summary” said, only the ai summary phrased the summary as if it were a sentiment aggregated over many users’ experience. i.e.”users say…”

[rwhitman]

I've found this several times as well. I googled something to dispute a comment in reddit, and google "confirmed" it as accurate, citing what the person said in that exact reddit comment.

Google has become the ouroboros

[jjulius]

A few days ago I went looking for something music-related that I've been trying to find for a long time. Google's AI response confirmed it existed and described it almost exactly as I've described it in the past. It was then that I noticed the source.

It was citing my own old comment, here on HN, about that musical moment as evidence that it existed. That was surreal.

[bryanhogan]

Reddit is heavily filled with bots at this point, feels like every question is made to then promote their product or service using multiple bot accounts.

[Rp8yXmdmr]

They are not even hiding. I stumbled upon on some niche subreddit where autor asked for advice on maintaining pool of about 50 accounts, as he has trouble to keep up with attrition by his own, yet it is too small to justify investment in "commercial" tools.

[philipwhiuk]

Citogenesis used to take weeks, now it's complete in minutes.