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1. EGreg · 1790258599 · focus · HN ↗

   I think whoever solves this problem, especially for seniors etc. would make a lot of money from the insurance companies.

   1. bigfishrunning · 1790259606 · focus · HN ↗

      I really think the only solution is "don't put google AI summaries at the top of every search".

      AI tools are notoriously unreliable, and people that use them *on purpose* generally know and recognize that. If grandma, who is not super-internet-literate, types a query into google and gets a phone number, she's going to assume that it's the correct number and not the result of a lossy data store that's under active (and constant) attack.

      It used to be that you could reasonably verify your source with an HTTPS cert (so you can probably trust the number that's on Delta Airlines' website), and pop up scary warnings for grandma if those certs failed. Now every piece of misinformation has a valid cert from google or meta or X, so determining the truth is much more difficult and time consuming.

   2. jackb4040 · 1790262347 · focus · HN ↗

      I would not assume the invisible hand of the market is gonna solve this problem for us. It will be tricky to get this problem to even register at the labs, who are worried about existential risk first and paying (coding) customers 2nd.

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