Every day now, I see several screenshots on X of embarrassing and sometimes harmful AI Overviews within the Google Search results interface. I mean, we covered the one that recommends you drink urine, but I can't cover each and every one I see - there are just too many.
In fact, I said yesterday that someone should create a directory of them on a domain like GoogleAIOverviewsGoneWild.com or something like that. When I said that, I was told about a new account on X to follow @Goog_Enough. It is sharing funny, often embarrassing, and sometimes harmful examples of AI Overviews.
For anyone who wants to follow these, make sure to check out that account. I'll embed a few that the account posted recently that caught my eye:
I'm sure a parrot would be a #googenough behavioral analyst https://t.co/jr8IBVPblr
— Goog Enough (@Goog_Enough) May 23, 2024
Soooo I can unwind and wash away my stress, but let's not lead with the death part. #GoogEnough pic.twitter.com/PZ8xi9XZxM
— Corey Trojanowski (@Trojanowski_) May 22, 2024
Chill out and have a refreshing @Tropicana @TropicanaJuices Orange Juice, Lily.
— Jeff Coyle (@jeffrey_coyle) May 21, 2024
Everything's okay with this amazing offering everyone loves. Just go for pulp-free. pic.twitter.com/IEbYAYmL1s
Google is dead beyond comparison pic.twitter.com/EQIJhvPUoI
— PixelButts (@PixelButts) May 22, 2024
Meanwhile, over in Google Search.
— MMitchell (@mmitchell_ai) May 22, 2024
Andrew Johnson has been killin it, I never knew. pic.twitter.com/IV2zCmI6Zv
Google! I have used your weapons against you! You have been cursed by The Smiling Man! pic.twitter.com/eiBYqJI1Yi
— Ed Zitron (@edzitron) May 19, 2024
“Add at least 5 internal links per page” to rank better on Google? WTH AI Overview 😅 pic.twitter.com/roXFHfq5ua
— Aleyda Solis 🕊️ (@aleyda) May 24, 2024
That is just a sampling and if you find some, and post it on X, make sure to use #googenough tag.
I encourage you to apply the #googenough tag your suboptimal Google search results.
— AJ Kohn (@ajkohn) May 22, 2024
If you do, it'll be easy for the @Goog_Enough account to collect and amplify these SERPs and AI Overviews.
I do not run that account. I don't have the time. But I know who does and endorse it. https://t.co/vSDMMYNEyw
Forum discussion at X.
Update: Here is some of the backlash from media over the weekend based on these AI overviews:
- Google AI Overviews under fire for giving dangerous and wrong answers, Search Engine Land
- Glue pizza and eat rocks: Google AI search errors go viral, BBC
- "Google is dead." Google's desperate bid to chase Microsoft's search AI has led to it recommending eating rocks, Windows Central
- For some reason, Google lets AI "answer" medical questions in "Search", The Decoder
- Glue on pizza? Google’s AI Overview shares wacky answers, Silicon Republic
- Google AI makes string of errors after relying on joke websites, Telegraph
- Google AI Overview Results Spread Conspiracy Theories, Pizza Glue Recipe, Rolling Stone
- Google AI Overviews keep making mistakes in 'isolated examples', 9to5Google
- Google AI Overviews Search Errors Cause Furor Online, New York Times
- Google criticized as AI Overview makes errors, like saying President Obama is Muslim, CNBC
- Google Is Playing a Dangerous Game With AI Search, The Atlantic
- Google promised a better search experience — now it’s telling us to put glue on our pizza, The Verge
- Google says the 'vast majority' of AI Overviews are good, 9to5Google
- Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination, Gizmodo
- Google's AI Overviews Being Laughed at by CEO of Perplexity, Business Insider
- Google's AI search tool produces flubs and fabrications, QZ
- Google’s AI faces social media mockery after viral errors, NBC News
- Google’s AI Keeps Hallucinating. Does Anyone Care?, Bloomberg
- Google’s AI Overview Appears To Produce Misleading Answers, Forbes
- Google’s AI search tool tells users to ‘eat rocks’ for your health, Financial Times (Sub)
- Shut it down: Google's AI search results are beyond terrible, Android Authority
- The Reason That Google's AI Suggests Using Glue on Pizza Shows a Deep Flaw With Tech Companies' AI Obsession, Futurism
- What Is Google's AI Overviews, and Why Is It Getting Things Wrong?, CNET
- Why Google’s AI search might recommend you mix glue into your pizza, Washington Post
- 17 cringe-worthy Google AI answers demonstrate the problem with training on the entire web, Tom's Hardware
- Google is in damage control mode following AI Overviews fiasco, Android Police
- Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search, The Verge
- Google’s AI Is Churning Out a Deluge of Completely Inaccurate, Totally Confident Garbage, Futurism
- Can you trust Google AI search results? The internet is unconvinced., Mashable
- In our tests Google's AI Overviews were faster, more bizarre, and sometimes just fine, Mashable
- Google’s ‘AI Overviews’ advises adding glue to pizza sauce, lists ‘health benefits’ of tobacco for tweens, NY Post
- Users Report Google’s AI Overview Thinks Tons of Fictional Characters Are Gay, Them
- What are Google’s AI Overviews good for?, TechCrunch
