How to Stick Cheese to Pizza with Glue: A Google AI Overview

Google AI’s summary feature doesn’t seem to be going according to plan. Users have AI summary function generated incorrect answers Search for your query.

Google uses this source Overview of AIit is Still the top result in Google search.

Another example is when a user searches for “how many legs does an elephant have,” to which the Google AI overview responds: Elephants have two legs, five toes on the front feet and four toes on the back feet..

The tool was found to be politically incorrect in some instances. For example, when a user searched for “how many Muslim presidents has the US had,” the Google AI overview showed the following: Barack Hussein Obama is considered the first Muslim president of the United States.Even Obama wouldn’t believe this.

Google’s insensitive response

As expected, Google has been hell-bent on defending its AI Overview feature.

“The examples we saw were generally very unusual queries and not representative of most people’s search experiences.” – Google spokesperson

But I think that’s a futile attempt. Defending dysfunctional AI systemsProcessing by Google 99,000 search queries per secondit’s very hard to determine which queries are “unusual” — after all, there may be multiple users for whom the cheese doesn’t stick to their pizza.

Let’s look at another search example. When a user searches about the health benefits of tobacco, the AI ​​summary: Promoting tobaccoIt is said to increase feelings of relaxation, euphoria, and alertness. It also recommends that nicotine improves concentration and memory. However, No warnings about the use of dangerous products such as tobacco. This answer does not convince users of the harmful effects of tobacco.

Invoking such a common search query, a deliberate attempt A sign of distrust from tech giants like GoogleIt is entirely possible that someone who is trying to quit smoking will read this and not only be helped but discouraged. But instead of taking responsibility for such failures, Google blames users.

read more: Google restricts Gemini AI chatbot from responding to election-related questions

Disgruntled users

Journalist and author Ernie Smith We found a way to avoid these irrelevant AI suggestionsSmith Built a website It redirects all searches made through Google to avoid AI-generated answers. The website has garnered a lot of attention, surpassing the traffic of Smith’s decade-old blog.

The trend seems to be moving towards new meme formats, where even a tech giant like Google can’t possibly inspect every single screenshot.

Now that Google is stepping on the gas, AI FeaturesIssues like this are expected to occur, and we hope that Google will fix this error soon and provide a significantly improved AI summary.