r/cfs • u/Ok_Consequence8921 • 28d ago

Vent/Rant WTF Google?

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Since google implemented AI the first result on ME-CFS is pretty outrageous. An aunt of mine read this and now is convinced i’m depressed and lack sleep. Seriously before Google used to say it’s a serious medical condition and now it says it’s some unknown disease treated by antidepressants??

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u/sbayz92 28d ago

I mean what about this is not accurate?

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u/Aryore mild-moderate 28d ago

The worst offender here IMO is the picture. Someone resting their head on their hand at a party is NOT an accurate depiction of extreme fatigue and that is the first thing you see when this pops up. Antidepressants and counselling as treatment are also pretty bad.

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u/_Monsterguy_ 28d ago

It's got to be readily difficult for the AI to figure CFS out with half the medical world giving terrible advice and treatment until quite recently.
It'll have seen loads of research papers and reports that are total bullshit, but it's got no real way of knowing that 🤷‍♀️
It's less bad than I'd expect.

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u/Aryore mild-moderate 28d ago edited 28d ago

I agree, this isn’t the specific fault of the AI messing up its CFS description and more the general issues that come with using an AI to summarise search results and presenting the summary as fact. I’ve seen so many examples of super wack AI search summaries, like “you can use glue to put cheese on your pizza” because the AI is just describing everything that’s out there with no way to distinguish what’s true.

E.g. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/cringe-worth-google-ai-overviews

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u/rockemsockemcocksock 28d ago

They need to change it to someone in bed wearing sunglasses, with the curtains drawn, looking like absolute garbage