(28 May 2024) Over the weekend, the AI Overviews that Google announced at its developer conference made international headlines — but not for the reasons the company hoped for.
Across Threads, Bluesky, and X, users encountering the company’s AI-generated summaries atop search results found over and over again that Google was hallucinating or worse.
Most famously, there was the result that suggested putting nontoxic glue in your pizza. But AI overviews also suggested putting gasoline in your spaghetti. And its sense of American history appeared deeply broken; it reported that just 17 American presidents were white, and that one was Muslim.
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