Searches in Google are now seeing misinformation, as an effort to manipulate it and other search engines and AI takes holes. Pickr joins the ABC to explain.
Google may well be the biggest search engine, but that doesn’t mean it gets everything right. In fact, some searches are straight out showing misinformation right now.
If you’ve accidentally found yourself on the wrong end of searches about the pension or driving rules, Google could well be giving you false information. That’s because of what appears to be a concentrated effort to push misinformation to search engines and AI systems, and it’s not just Google that’s affected. What’s going on?
Pickr’s editor Leigh Stark joins ABC Perth Breakfast with Mark Gibson to explain, and delve into what’s going on and what’s being done to fix this. Tune in from the 1 hour 11 minute mark (1:11:00) on the November 17 program to hear it.
