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Google's AI Overview is a dangerous disaster

The new AI feature from Google is spewing out misinformation

Google’s AI answer, which we strongly recommend no one follows for obvious reasons, has been pulled from a comment from a user named “fucksmith” in a decade-old Reddit thread, who was clearly joking about using glue on a pizza. Others have included that a cat licks your hands to see whether you’re fit for consumption, a dog playing in the NBA, and other mishaps that only serve to give people the wrong information. AI may be the latest and greatest thing in the tech industry right now, but if it’s currently serving to make a product that millions of people rely on and trust worse, is it really the future?

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