Fake claims about Australian road rules on headlights generated by AI and spread on Google
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/05/australian-road-rules-headlights-false-information-displayed-google-aiOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
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I've been seeing these things on the Google News feed on my phone I keep disabling that keeps getting re-enabled for some mysterious reason. It's literally gotten to the point lately that if something is presented as a fact by google I automatically disbelieve it. What really concerns me is the people who don't take that stance.
Hey ASIO who's behind these websites the Ai is referencing? Because this smells like the beta test to more insidious public manipulation campaigns.
Australia has headlight road rules? A lot of the time I think the blinding lights must be coming from a spaceship.
What really bothers me is that the road rules keep changing, but nobody collates the changes into the original document.
The current Vic road rules act is a full release in 2017, with about 10 patches. The patch to replace rules 299 and 300 (screens and devices) alone is 45 pages long.
Oh, and this week I asked a few AI models what happened to road rule 300. It cited the wrong rule every time. With confidence. Do NOT ask AI to cite laws.