I Googled a fake saying and AI Overviews gave me a hilarious (and totally made-up) meaning for it

Google's Latest Nonsensical Overview Results Illustrate Yet Another Problem With AI

Google AI Overview has been attaching meaning to made-up phrases. The phenomenon highlights the limitations of these AI models.

I Googled a fake saying and AI Overviews gave me a hilarious (and totally made-up) meaning for it

Google's AI Overviews tool is confidently creating origin stories for made-up idioms now. Try it for yourself.

Google AI Overviews' embarrassing new problem is even funnier than pizza glue

Ever heard your grandma tell you that "two buses going in the wrong direction is better than one going the right way"? Of course not, because that's not an actual old saying. Nobody says that unless you're Google's sophisticated Gemini-powered AI Overviews feature that sits atop Google Search results in some markets. AI Overviews doesn't just think this saying about the buses is real. It actually hallucinates an explanation for the fake idiom, t…

‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw

Google’s AI Overviews feature credible-sounding explanations for completely made-up idioms.

Google AI Fabricates Explanations For Nonexistent Idioms

Google's search AI is confidently generating explanations for nonexistent idioms, once again revealing fundamental flaws in large language models. Users discovered that entering any made-up phrase plus "meaning" triggers AI Overviews that present fabricated etymologies with unwarranted authority. ...

Here's what's going on with Google's funny explanations of made-up expressions

Google AI Overviews are confidently trying to explain nonsense phrases, to great hilarity. Ideally this wouldn’t happen, because AI Overviews are only supposed to appear when Google’s confident in the quality of its output. The line between new phrases and nonsense phrases is a fine one, though, and it’s easy to see the logic Google tries to use to divine meaning. The internet is a sucker for a good fail, and we’ve certainly seen our fair share …