-- Shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Email Google’s new “AI Overview” feature, which provides aggregated results compiled by artificial intelligence above some search results, seems to be giving inaccurate and, in some cases, dangerous results. Social media users immediately pointed out that the feature — which launched to the public earlier this month, superseding organic search results — was giving out some dubious responses. The engine, which holds over 90% market share in the search space, gave advice on cheese sliding off a pizza that raised some eyebrows: mix glue into the cheese.
But unappetizing recipes aren’t the most harmful results that the feature can kick out. Per one X user, Google responded to a prompt about sanitizing a washing machine with a potentially deadly recipe for mustard gas (a threat which the AI feature confirmed via a search.) And while many large language models, including OpenAI’s Chat GPT and Meta’s Llama, scrub the internet for training data without permission, Google’s overview feature appears to be pretty blatant in its plagiarism.
According to one X user, Google added the term “my kid’s favorite” to a smoothie recipe, borrowing the language from a recipe website that posted a similar concoction. Google, developing the feature in response to Microsoft and Open AI's Bing CoPilot, claims that the program benefits smaller sites, pulling their content into results and reaching more searchers. “With AI Overviews, people are .
