I can also relate here, seeking a product review on Sony wh1000x_, Google wrote a nice seeming summary, but scrolling down to some Reddit discussions, stumbled upon a single comment that was very nearly verbatim what the “AI Summary” said, only the ai summary phrased the summary as if it were a sentiment aggregated over many users’ experience.
i.e.”users say…”
replyReddit is heavily filled with bots at this point, feels like every question is made to then promote their product or service using multiple bot accounts.
replyI've found this several times as well. I googled something to dispute a comment in reddit, and google "confirmed" it as accurate, citing what the person said in that exact reddit comment.
replyGoogle has become the ouroboros
A few days ago I went looking for something music-related that I've been trying to find for a long time. Google's AI response confirmed it existed and described it almost exactly as I've described it in the past. It was then that I noticed the source.
replyIt was citing my own old comment, here on HN, about that musical moment as evidence that it existed. That was surreal.