Google AI Overview Thinks It's Still 2024, Sometimes
- Google's AI Overviews feature recently gave incorrect answers by stating it was still 2024 when users asked if it was 2025.
- This issue arose amid longstanding problems with AI Overviews' frequent hallucinations and bizarre responses causing widespread confusion online.
- Google addressed the bug late on a Thursday but did not disclose the cause, describing the fix as part of ongoing efforts similar to a game of whack-a-mole.
- A Google representative stated that most AI Overviews deliver accurate and useful content, and the company is currently making improvements to resolve concerns of this nature.
- Despite fixes, AI Overviews continue to deliver occasional errors, illustrating the challenge of balancing large-scale AI integration with accuracy for over a billion users worldwide.
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Google Humiliated as Its Idiot AI Overviews Caught Telling Users It's Still 2024
What Year Is It? Talk about cutting-edge tech. Google's more-than-frequently-wrong AI Overviews search feature still thinks it's 2024. The annoying AI box, which has remained error-riddled since its inception just over a year ago, has confidently been telling users that it's still 2024, as Wired reports. Simply asking AI Overviews if it's 2025 resulted in a head-scratching answer. "No, it is not 2025," the AI responded, leading to widespread moc…
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