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Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity promote scientific racism in AI search results - AI-powered search engines are surfacing deeply racist, debunked research.
AI-powered search engines are surfacing deeply racist, debunked research.
Google’s AI Overviews were launched earlier this year as part of the company’s effort to revamp its all-powerful search tool for an online world being reshaped by artificial intelligence. While WIRED’s tests suggest AI Overviews have now been switched off for queries about national IQs, the results still amplify the incorrect figures from Lynn’s work in what’s called a “featured snippet,” which displays some of the text from a website before the link. It then lists a number of sources, including a Reddit thread that relied on Lynn’s research and the same World Population Review site that Google’s AI Overview referenced.
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