My New Online Hobby Is Asking Google AI What Made-Up Proverbs Mean
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Summary
AI Overview, the artificial intelligence behind Google’s search feature, is currently providing hilariously incorrect, and often absurd, responses to certain search queries that resemble proverbs or idioms
AI Overview is interpreting these unfinished phrases as instructions, consequently providing elaborate and often imaginative explanations for the search phrases, which have been posted on Twitter by several users
While the results are mildly amusing, they highlight a more concerning problem with AI chatbots, namely, AI hallucination, where an algorithm tries to interpret nonsensical input as meaningful text, providing the user with false information that it believes to be true.
This is especially worrying when the AI is incorporated into a widely used feature such as Google’s search function, where the general public may not be aware that the answers are not necessarily factually correct.
