Google’s new AI Overview feature has been generating bizarre and sometimes dangerous responses, a disastrously hasty rollout that has the woke internet giant manually disabling certain searches. For example, the Silicon Valley company’s woke AI suggests that pregnent women smoke “2-3 cigarettes per day.”
The Verge reports that Google’s AI Overview, a feature that has been in beta testing for over a year, is now facing scrutiny due to its odd and potentially harmful outputs. From suggesting users put glue on their pizza to recommending the consumption of rocks, the AI-powered search feature has been generating a flurry of memes across social media. As a result, Google is frantically disabling AI Overviews for specific searches as the memes gain traction, causing many of them to disappear shortly after being shared on social networks.
The situation is particularly perplexing given that Google has been testing AI Overviews for an extended period. CEO Sundar Pichai even stated that the company had served over a billion queries during this time. However, Pichai also mentioned that Google had reduced the cost of delivering AI answers by 80 percent, driven by advancements in hardware, engineering, and technical breakthroughs. It appears that this optimization may have occurred prematurely, before the technology was fully prepared.
"smoking while pregnant" pic.twitter.com/egFgmupYvW
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