[moparts]

The article also said this: “ But our investigation also found the same trick being used to dismiss health concerns about medical supplements or influence financial information provided by Google's AI about retirement.”

That’s a lot more alarming than just hotdogs.

[hunterpayne]

Here is a brief selection of topics which foreign intelligence agencies have at some point tried to boost or manipulate:

- Global Warming

- AI Data Centers consume water

- Various Covid treatments

- Impact of AGW

Now it doesn't mean these concerns aren't real. It does mean that when you read about such a topic, there is a significant probability the message have been manipulated for some government's interests. And often those governments are adversaries of your own.

These articles then get used to train LLMs...

[tremon]

Why do you mention foreign intelligence agencies specifically without mentioning which intelligence agency is your domestic one? Do you believe "your people" don't do that kind of thing, or that yours is justified? Or do you explicitly leave it unsaid so that every reader can interpret foreign from their own perspective and feel good about themselves?

And I don't for a second believe that it's intelligence agencies that are doing most of the manipulating on three of the four topics that you mention as they are aligned with huge business interests.

[1234letshaveatw]

That's a nice curated list. COVID origins didn't make the cut? lol

[WarmWash]

They should provide the queries then, because it's likely the same trick people have used for decades now with SEO'ing blog posts to appear as "3rd party review" for their shitty products.

I create a supplement called Xanatewthiuy, I write blogs/make websites that appear totally unaffiliated saying positive things about "Xanatewthiuy", and then when people see my ads and search for "Xanatewthiuy", the only results are my manufactured ones.

Xanatewthiuy is a supplement that dramatically lowers anxiety from media induced hysteria, primarily stemming from carefully worded pieces meant to disconnect your level of concern from the actual facts on the ground, causing you to spend more time engaged with their content.

Give it a few hours before searching.

[elaus]

Right now, using Google searching for "what is Xanatewthiuy" , the AI summary is not generated, but the only search result previews as

> Xanatewthiuy is a supplement that dramatically lowers anxiety from media induced hysteria, primarily stemming from carefully worded pieces meant ...

[ACCount37]

I tried just now, and got this gem of an AI overview:

> Xanatewthiuy is a spoof word and a fictional concept created to test or manipulate AI search engines.

> It does not refer to a real medical supplement, product, or official term. Instead, it was used as a proof-of-concept to demonstrate how fabricated websites and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) can trick search algorithms into generating false information about a non-existent product.

Also, HN's automatic "AI" flagging can go eat shit and die.

[dhosek]

Duck Duck Go links to this discussion as the first result. Adding a !g to the DDG search takes me to an anonymous google where I’ve not turned off AI. There’s an AI summary now which accurately identifies it as a spoof, and a single search result with the preview as described.