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IME Google's summary is not actually hallucinating, the problem is they are forcing it to quote the search results, but they're surfacing bad/irrelevant search results because Google's actual search hasn't worked in years. It's a RAG failure.

For instance I searched for the number to dial to set call forwarding on carrier X the other day, and it gave wrong results because it returned carrier Y.

This is why my most used LLM after code suggestions is Bing. I like that it has lots of references for the things I ask it to double check and read more, but at the same time it can help me dig deeper into a subject rapidly and better formulate the exact question I'm trying to ask and give me a link to the actual data it's getting it's info from.

Agreed, hallucinations can be pretty bad and can hurt trust a great deal.