Google Warns of AI-Generated Content Errors, Recommends Manual Review
Google has updated its guidance on using AI-generated content in search results. The company now recommends that website owners manually fact-check and review all AI-written material before publishing it online.
The update was made to Google's Search Central guidance on generative AI content, which is used by many websites for tasks such as writing articles and creating product descriptions.
According to Google, language models can produce errors because they don't retrieve facts from a database, but rather predict likely sequences of words based on their training data. This means that AI-generated content may contain inaccuracies or 'hallucinations'.
The new guidance emphasizes the importance of manual review and fact-checking of AI-generated content to ensure its accuracy and trustworthiness.