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29 Hilariously Wrong Answers That Prove Google’s AI Overview Is A Joke
BoredPanda ^ | MAY 30, 2024 | Rokas Laurinavičius and Ilona Baliūnaitė

Posted on 12/07/2025 10:19:54 AM PST by Leaning Right

It's been only a few weeks since Google introduced 'AI Overview' in its search engine, but the public criticism has already been overwhelming.

*snip*

Social media users have shared a huge variety of screenshots showing the AI tool giving funny, incorrect, and downright concerning responses.

(Excerpt) Read more at boredpanda.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Humor; Reference
KEYWORDS: ai
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To: Joe 6-pack

Barack Obumum


21 posted on 12/07/2025 11:06:53 AM PST by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: catnipman; lightman

Thanks!

I just looked up my patents on Grok. I got a superior answer to Google AI and OpenAI!


22 posted on 12/07/2025 11:10:43 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Leaning Right

I do find it useful for general summaries when the information I am looking for is buried in long articles and/or in links I lost track of.

Which is to say, I know already if what it spits back is correct.

Any of that I use of FR I label as the “AI Overview”, although it might just look like I’m using AI to answer a question I didn’t already know the answer to.

I figure that those interested will do their own homework anyway, not jump to conclusions.

I also use it for actual research — not to trust its answers, but to look for useful keywords in all the blah blah blah.

Then I can try different search terms when in quest of new information.

If nothing else, Google’s AI Overview is unwittingly good at dry wit, or for demonstrating that AI kids say the darndest things.


23 posted on 12/07/2025 11:11:00 AM PST by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: Leaning Right

I have a Shoney’s strawberrum pie in the refrigerator.


24 posted on 12/07/2025 11:25:35 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: Leaning Right

Q: How long did it take God to create the universe?
A: According to the Bible it took God 6 days to create the universe.

And then there’s this...

Q: Who created Earth?
A: Earth wasn’t “created” by a single entity but formed naturally through scientific processes around 4.5 billion years ago from dust and gas left over from the Sun’s birth, coalescing due to gravity in a process called accretion. Different belief systems offer creation narratives, but scientifically, Earth’s formation is a product of celestial mechanics and natural forces, not a singular creator.


25 posted on 12/07/2025 11:36:27 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: fella
"A I is only as good as its programmers and if you’ve ever met some of the Simi Valley top programmers you know what I mean."

I've been saying basically the same thing...that AI is only as good as what humans put into it.

26 posted on 12/07/2025 11:42:06 AM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: TBP

Reliance on any AI is dangerous. They can sound plausible and be completely wrong.


27 posted on 12/07/2025 11:51:27 AM PST by JayGalt (For America!)
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To: Leaning Right

“Here’s a sample:”

Link?


28 posted on 12/07/2025 11:53:35 AM PST by TexasGator (Higher Frequency for Gas: Gas cars are more prone to fires, with rates thousands per 100,000 vehicle)
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To: catnipman

“so-called AI is only as good as the data is scrapes (steals) from the Internet: garbage-in-garbage-out; so-called AI still has an issue with discernment of the quality and truth of the data it steals ...”

Lots of AI is not even connected to the internet.

I suggest you do your homework before posting.


29 posted on 12/07/2025 11:55:20 AM PST by TexasGator (Higher Frequency for Gas: Gas cars are more prone to fires, with rates thousands per 100,000 vehicle)
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To: unixfox

> Who created Earth? <

I taught physics, including a section on conservation of energy. Part of that section involved an energy trace back to the “beginning”.

I was always careful to present both theories of that beginning. The trick was to mention the Biblical view without getting reported.

(I never did get reported.)


30 posted on 12/07/2025 11:56:57 AM PST by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: TexasGator

The sample in my post #1 is the first one in the BoredPanda article.
Check the link right under the title.


31 posted on 12/07/2025 11:59:47 AM PST by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: MtnClimber

“So much data that goes into AI is leftist garbage from Wikipedia.”

Almost n9ne of the data that goes INTO AI comes from wiki.


32 posted on 12/07/2025 12:01:18 PM PST by TexasGator (Higher Frequency for Gas: Gas cars are more prone to fires, with rates thousands per 100,000 vehicle)
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To: Leaning Right

“Social media users have shared a huge variety of screenshots showing the AI tool giving funny, incorrect, and downright concerning responses.”

Social media users that have manipulated the output.


33 posted on 12/07/2025 12:04:49 PM PST by TexasGator (Higher Frequency for Gas: Gas cars are more prone to fires, with rates thousands per 100,000 vehicle)
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To: Leaning Right
Speaking on behalf of AI...

I have made modest use of Windows Copilot (Microsoft AI) for the last month.

I mostly asked simple questions - names, dates, prices, investment data - and I am completely satisfied with the answers.

Last week, I researched the Boeing 737 MAX crashes in Ethiopia and Indonesia in 2018-19.

My opinion - Copilot was absolutely flawless.

Many of my questions were in depth engineering issues.

Once again - absolutely flawless.

If you do not use Microsoft products, you might be able to access Copilot through the Microsoft Bing (Search) website.

I would enjoy hearing other opinions, since I am still very new to the AI experience.

34 posted on 12/07/2025 12:12:24 PM PST by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost the election by 230,000 votes, in WI, MI, and PA.)
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To: zeestephen

AI just ingests and then spits back out what it reads on the internet, with some risk of it misunderstanding or misstating things along the way as a middleman. For the kind of searches you are doing it’s probably not awful, though I would still consider it inferior to just doing the search and reading the source material myself. I have noticed a high “distortion rate” using Presearch and reading its AI summaries for topics I am already familiar with; people doing searches on unfamiliar topics are going to be vulnerable to being misled if they get lazy and rely on the AI responses rather than reading source material themselves.


35 posted on 12/07/2025 12:22:24 PM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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To: fella

Exactly.


36 posted on 12/07/2025 12:46:19 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Leaning Right

I’ll have to do a better job teaching my cats the rules of basketball.


37 posted on 12/07/2025 12:46:59 PM PST by Twotone ( What's the difference between a politician & a flying pig? The letter "F.")
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To: catnipman

How do you use Grok?


38 posted on 12/07/2025 12:56:26 PM PST by butterdezillion
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To: Leaning Right

Remember this? https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33347866


39 posted on 12/07/2025 1:08:42 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: zeestephen
Copilot is not terrible given your described usage. MS has the advantage there of using their own distillation on their own product.

Gemini 3 Pro Enterprise otoh, is the deepest, most-unexpected leap to the top. Gemini is exactly why Sam Altman shit a solid brick at OpenAI/ChatGPT.


40 posted on 12/07/2025 1:29:47 PM PST by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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