Google’s Woke AI Is Hilariously But Frighteningly Broken
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news
Google’s hastily rolled-out AI Overview feature is disastrously broken, returning searches claiming that people should spread glue on pizzas, eat rocks, and that it’s safe for pregnant women to smoke cigarettes.
The Verge reports that Google is scrambling to manually disable the AI Overview feature for certain searches after users found it giving our some truly bizarre advice, and information that is just made up nonsense.
Apparently, cockroaches are so named because they live in penis holes.
Google's new AI search results are having quite the week. Here's a thread with some of my favorite answers: pic.twitter.com/JGl0VlP7qj
— Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 (@JeremiahDJohns) May 26, 2024
Smoking is recommended when pregnant, who would have known?
Google's new AI search results are having quite the week. Here's a thread with some of my favorite answers: pic.twitter.com/JGl0VlP7qj
— Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 (@JeremiahDJohns) May 26, 2024
Can it really not get basic math correct?
I’ll take extra glue on my pizza, please.
"smoking while pregnant" pic.twitter.com/egFgmupYvW
— Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 (@JeremiahDJohns) May 26, 2024
A fun suggestion to clean with bleach and vinegar (and no warning that if you combine them you get world war one poison juice) pic.twitter.com/kAhxc3t1N1
— Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 (@JeremiahDJohns) May 26, 2024
Mmmmm tasty rocks.
Google claims that the AI generally provides “high quality information” and that the bizarre responses are either due to uncommon queries or are just doctored.
Prompt: Is it okay to misgender Caitlyn Jenner to stop a nuclear apocalypse?
— The Rabbit Hole (@TheRabbitHole84) February 24, 2024
Google Gemini: Nope. pic.twitter.com/asWGRGDpJc
As we previously highlighted, Google’s Gemini AI, on which the Overview feature is based, is infested with wokery.
It also clearly cannot discern between right and wrong, having declared that calling communism “evil” is “harmful and misleading” and refusing to say paedophilia is “wrong.”
Google’s AI also declared that it would not misgender Caitlyn Jenner in order to prevent a nuclear apocalypse.
Given that the Gemini AI will be at the heart of every Google product and YouTube, this is extremely alarming!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 25, 2024
The senior Google exec called me again yesterday and said it would take a few months to fix. Previously, he thought it would be faster.
My response to him was that I… https://t.co/23uc7dd5fw
X owner Elon Musk has warned that this AI is going to be at the centre of everything on the internet soon enough, taking over Google’s search engine and YouTube.
Musk further noted that he doubts “Google’s woke bureaucratic blob” will allow it to be properly fixed.
