P.S. A Column On Things

By PAUL E. SCHINDLER JR. I am from Portland, Oregon, Beaumont ’66, Benson High ’70, MIT ’74. Some things are impossible to know, but it is impossible to know these things.

Google Produces Stupid Summaries

May 3, 2026

A Tip o’ the PSACOT Hat to Daniel Dern, for this free NYT link:

How Accurate Are Google’s A.I. Overviews?

The company’s A.I.-generated answers look authoritative, but they draw on an array of sources, from trustworthy sites to Facebook posts.

By Tripp Mickle, Cade Metz, Dylan Freedman, Teresa Mondría Terol, and Keith Collins
April 7, 2026

The reporters spoke with firms that study A.I. hallucinations before selecting Oumi and its A.I.-verification model, HallOumi, to evaluate Google’s accuracy via a widely used benchmark test, known as SimpleQA.

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