Google Explains Why Its AI Tool Told Users to Eat Rocks and Glue Pizzas

Google on Thursday addressed some of the truly bizarre results that users of its new artificial intelligence-powered search feature received recently which included advice to eat rocks and glue cheese to pizzas.

After the rollout of its “AI Overviews” tool in the U.S. earlier in May, social media was flooded with viral posts appearing to show wild results that it was spewing out. In a blog post, the company insisted that some of the seemingly damning posts were “obvious and silly” fakes, but others were real “odd and erroneous” answers that Overviews had given.

Liz Reid, Google’s head of search, wrote in the blog post that the strange results “highlighted some specific areas that we needed to improve.” Among those areas, she wrote, was how the tool deals with “nonsensical queries and satirical content.”

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