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Google AI Overviews Says It’s Still 2024
When asked to confirm the current year, Google’s AI-generated top result confidently answers, “No, it is not 2025.”
I’ve covered Google’s AI Overviews since its messy rollout last year, when screenshots of absurdly wrong answers started popping up at the top of search results and going viral on social media. After the initial launch for AI Overviews a year ago, Liz Reid, who leads Search at Google, responded to the viral errors in a blog post that admitted the company screwed up. Recently, users also discovered that you could type a nonsensical phrase into Google Search, slap the word “meaning” at the end, and get an AI Overview attempting to pass off whatever you input as some kind of well-known saying.
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