Google's AI Overviews Told Everyone to Put Glue on Pizza and Eat One Rock a Day
Days after launch, Google's AI Overviews told users to add glue to pizza sauce and eat a rock a day, repeating an old Reddit joke and Onion satire as fact at the top of search.
"add about 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue to the sauce"
The Verge
Google bolted a generative summary to the top of its search results, and within days AI Overviews was confidently telling people to mix non-toxic glue into pizza sauce so the cheese sticks, a tip lifted straight from an eleven-year-old Reddit shitpost. It also recommended eating one small rock a day, sourced from an Onion gag, and served up assorted nonsense about history and health to whoever asked. Google called the failures rare edge cases while quietly yanking the worst answers, having shipped a joke-laundering machine to billions and branded it the future of search. The receipts are everywhere because everyone screenshotted them. Read The Verge on the glue-on-pizza answers.
Source: The Verge
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