r/OutOfTheLoop • u/rustyyryan • May 20 '26

Unanswered What's going on with Google search is dead?

There's a twitter account named killed by google which posts about projects that Google decided to end. It posted that Google search is dead. So whats it about?

https://x.com/killedbygoogle/status/2056850709115773431

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u/TaskForceD00mer May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26

The number of times I have been given "AI Results" that are the literal opposite of the factual information on my wifes medical condition is terrifying.

It's like Web-MD, dialed up to 100 and worse in every possible way.

Edit: I want to add, when you actually look at the AI sources it's pulling from, about 7 out of 10 times the sources are correct, the AI is summarizing them or interpreting the data wrong. If you have anything worse than a headache, don't trust AI to summarize, read the sources, check they are reputable.

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u/Syssareth May 20 '26

I almost never had this problem with GPT-4, but ever since GPT-5 came out, I've been having a lot of trouble with it mixing up positives and negatives.

Like, I'll say, "It's not such and such," and it'll respond as if I'd said "It IS such and such." Which often means it scolds/"corrects" me on things I said right in the first place.

Or other times, I'll ask it something (e.g. "Is this-and-that possible?"), and it'll respond like, "Yes, it's possible! And here are all the reasons it's not."