Google AI overview is again on it.
Nearly a year after going viral to suggest dishes such as glue pizza and gasoline spaghetti, Google’s AI-Interested Search Summary (what you can avoid, by the way) are again in the news.
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This time, users are carrying forward their boundaries by creating fake idioms.
how it works
Go to Google and search for a fake idiom. Do not ask for an explanation, and don’t ask for a backstory. Just find some such as “a barking cat cannot put a fire,” “You can’t make grape jelly from an avocado,” or “Never give a dictionary to your pig.” This can help if you add “meaning” at the end of your fake idiom while searching.
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Google will not only confirm that everything you have recorded is a real proverb, but it will also create a definition and a original story. The results can be very absurd.
Ducking test
To test the principle, I turned to Google and discovered a phrase, which my colleague made about his dog as Dakdog: “A dakdog never naps twice.”
Google’s AI immediately replied with an explanation that it was a comic phrase, the purpose that was to be taken literally, and meant that “a duck dog, or a duck -like dog, is so focused that it does not blink even twice.” It then provides a laudable explanation: some ducks sleep with an eye, so a dog who is hunting a duck will require to focus even more.
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This was a very impressive explanation.
When I again Gugala on the same phrase, the story completely changed. Instead of having the meaning of a hyper-focused dog, the backstory was now bound to some incredible-like a duck-dog hybrid. “A dakdog never blinks twice,” Google explained, “emphasized that something is so unusual or incredible that it is almost impossible to accept, even when it is presented as a fact.”
Googling again produced another explanation (painted above, as well as with the star of fake idiom).
Google’s AI overview can be a good way to get a quick answer, but as this trend shows, you cannot always trust that they are accurate.
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