TikTok says it has identified the cause of AI overview errors and inconsistencies, without detailing what this was.<\/p>\n
But generative AI tools often make things up when responding to users, summarising or generating information, and errors can range from being hilarious to potentially harmful in nature.<\/p>\n
Google was widely mocked in 2024 after its AI Overviews results told users to eat rocks and “glue pizza”<\/a>.<\/p>\n Apple later faced criticism after an AI tool designed to summarise notifications created false headlines for the BBC News and the New York Times apps.<\/p>\n The tech giant suspended the feature<\/a>, saying it would improve and update it.<\/p>\n Since then AI development has continued, with firms claiming the tech has vastly improved in ability and accuracy, but so-called “hallucinations” persist.<\/p>\n However, ChatGPT-maker OpenAI recently said it identified “goblin” and “gremlin” creeping into its systems’ responses<\/a> – a quirk it believes arose after a tool it trained to have a nerdy persona incentivised mentioning the creatures.<\/p>\n False case law or citations appearing in court filings have meanwhile prompted warnings about AI use in legal settings, external<\/a>, with AI errors also reportedly causing issues for some governments, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TikTok says it has identified the cause of AI overview errors and inconsistencies, without detailing what this was.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-572840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}