It's not even hallucinating it's just correctly summarizing the wrong thing.
Also we're only talking about a handful of examples out of billions of queries, that doesn't stop the usual media hyperventilating though.
Also we're only talking about a handful of examples out of billions of queries, that doesn't stop the usual media hyperventilating though.
The average person doesn't necessarily have the media and AI literacy to know not to trust papa google's answer at the top of the result page.
It doesn't take much imagination the think of non-meme questions that will propogate wrong information.
"Fake info from trusted sources" isn't a hypothetical issue. When they changed the law that required TV news to be factual we quickly headed down the path of Fox News and MSNBC. They are so effective precisely because Boomers grew up fully trusting news sources.
You can argue that it is not a problem and that people know the difference, but we have plenty of real-life proof to the contrary.