Too much glue on the pizza and gasoline in the spaghetti: Google reacts
AI-generated answers are supposed to improve Google searches. Initially, however, the most ridiculous results go viral and Google reworks them manually.
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After screenshots of absurd answers from an AI-supported search function have been circulating on social networks for days, Google is promising a quick response and is apparently deleting the affected search results manually. This was reported by the US magazine The Verge, citing the US search engine company, among others. The company speaks of "unusual queries" and sometimes even manipulated screenshots that are behind most of the examples. Some of the internet users who had shared particularly problematic results had reported that they had disappeared a short time later, indicating that Google had intervened.
Google's intervention was preceded by days of viral screenshots that raised serious doubts about the additional function. For example, the search engine advised users to stick falling cheese on a homemade pizza with glue, as The Verge has compiled. Users have also found search queries that Google answers with claims that Batman is a policeman, that dogs have played in US professional sports leagues and that the second US President John Adams, who died in 1826, graduated from university a total of 21 times between 1934 and 2003. Petrol is also said to make spaghetti spicier. In the meantime, it has become a real competition to find such ridiculously wrong search results.
The generated answers come from the so-called "Search Generative Experience", with which Google aims to enhance search results and which is now more widely available. Based on the in-house AI model Gemini, this AI is intended to generate a summary of the answers to a search query in certain cases, which will appear above the link lists in the search results. In the best case scenario, this text should already answer the question asked and make further research superfluous. While those responsible for many websites fear a noticeable drop in traffic as a result, Google is now struggling with the sometimes abstruse results that the generator sometimes delivers.
(mho)