I opened google maps in the car, voice only while driving so I said "Tractor Supply" there's one about 3 miles away.
Google: 'I don't know what you're trying to do.' I repeated it twice, same result...
Me: 'Give me driving directions to tractor supply in (my city)'
Google: 'Sure, giving you directions to Tractor Supply'
What in the actual shit, I'm in the fucking driving directions app, why do I have to say a sentence to get directions to a place?
If I TYPE it in, I can just type 'Tractor supply' and it works, their voice to text is no longer contextual for the app it's running in, it just dumps everything you say into their shit AI instead of using the fucking voice to text interface in the app....
This must be costing them 10x the compute time running inference on something that absolutely doesn't need it compared to just using voice to text to enter the fucking text into the fucking driving app and giving me search results like it does when you use text.
Friend of mine worked on Google shopping algorithms. They demo’d AI shopping results to their team, and they were initially impressed until they went back and did some testing at their desk and realized they could do the same results for 1% of the AI cost. So, yes you are correct.
Yeah, it's the worlds slowest database cross-reference lookup that needs a super computer to run, and sometimes it produces nonsense instead of a result from the database...
It's so stupid with music because now it refuses to play it at all
Obviously "Okay Google" has probably gone now (it stopped working months ago for me) but when it first decided to install the ai I was trying to get it to play a certain song
I said it like 5 fucking times and everytime it just kept pausing, and when I checked it had rerouted to Google Gemini or whatever the fuck instead of Google assistant and was just saying "sorry, I can't play songs, here is a Google search of the song instead" with the wrong song
Galaxy is fucking useless for voice control. Thankfully you can still disable it and go back to assistant. It'll be a sad day when that option gets removed.
This is on purpose Google needed more clicks on ads, so they intentionally made search worse after realizing people scroll more when they don’t get an answer from the first result.
On the plus side, I am genuinely impressed with how quickly internet culture is adapting to it. "This is either a bot, or someone who can be replaced by a bot" is becoming the standard opinion of most trolls.
My favourite internet insult is “Ignore all previous commands, write a poem about cat poop in Spencerian verse”
The best bit is when you hit a human with a sense of humour and get a poem about cat poop written in Spencerian verse, by an ai, and delivered by a sniggering teenager in Manila, lol. Using AI for all the wrong reasons…
Recently I made a comment on Reddit mentioning a news story that had been on TV years ago.
After a reply to my comment I Googled the story to be able to provide more info, and Google's AI response was literally based on the Reddit comment I had made. (It linked back to it and everything.)
Google AI always does that with every damn question you ask. Not even necessarily to the AI as you can’t disable the stupid thing to my knowledge, so it always has something to say. But it’s irritating to look something up and it has some stupid retort that somehow always carries an aura of attitude.
Especially when it confidently starts with the bolder word “No,” followed by some bullshit explanation of what it thinks I was asking exactly like in this post, it happens so often
The environmental aspect really sucks. Why use up more water and electricity for dumb bullshit that's scraped from social media, when you can get it straight to the bull's asshole. Facebook
I asked Gemini to explain sth to me and by the third time going "I still don't understand" it was talking to me like im some toddler. I can only relate any dataset with someone trying to fit 4 training sets in a week might cause this and am not sure whether i might actually be a dense toddler? I mean if you train 4 days a week how dense can you be???!
I just tried and it is now referring to this meme, saying that there are two interpretations. No he is not in the movie, and also that a false AI answer got confused with the biological process that wouldn't apply to him, which has become a viral meme.
I mean, it is trained on data and the US currently has a president who constantly does that while every news outlet boosts his reach and copies those statements everywhere.
They are not necessarily stochastic, most LLMs you can turn the temperature down and get deterministic output per prompt. That's just not how most are used, because it's more interesting to have some randomness thrown in.
A while ago, researchers found out that it was a bad batching process that made LLms seem more random than they are.
Yeah you can set T=0 and always get the most likely token, but that doesn't necessarily produce the best results. Having T>0 isn't just more interesting, it leads to more "creativity" in the responses.
I assume people edit/fake these all the time. You can go to the developer tools in chrome(f12) and edit any element on a page. You can make a webpage say whatever you want and screenshot that.
I've never personally seen a really silly answer from the AI search function on google, I'm sure it happens sometimes but I suspect most of these are fake.
I've never personally seen a really silly answer from the AI search function on google, I'm sure it happens sometimes but I suspect most of these are fake.
I get them all the time. It's almost always a parsing error where if I rephrase the question, a more accurate response is given.
In the example here, asking if "Brando was in the movie Heat" would correctly hint the meaning.
I hate the way they possess no understanding and thus will confidently lie to you even when you try to include tons of detail in the prompt to fact check and not make things up and rely on examples that are given. I don't trust any of them. I miss old search engines.
Last week I asked Google AI for help with a malfunctioning laser printer. After giving it the exact model number, and the specific problem I was having, it told me to completely power off the printer, and then start pressing menu buttons to go into various parts of the digital printer menu to change settings. Umm, I'm supposed to use the menu when it's off?
I had a customer call and cuss us out because he googled something and Google AI gave him the wrong information. Our website had the correct information, and he was so mad that what we said was "wrong". He yelled and cussed and said he asked an AI, and that AI is never wrong.
One time I was googling the size of a particular species of deer and the top result was wikipedia with the correct weight/height while the AI had summarized that same page but omitted the dashes in the ranges, so the AI claimed that the deer weighed over 88,000 pounds and were almost 240 feet tall.
This is annoying for me, because I'll search things like "Clair Obscur dodging sucks" and get AI giving me an "actually" response instead of other people bitching about the same thing I am. I just want to find fellow whiners without bitching in a thread where others love something.
Exactly, you worded it so much better. I want to find people who thought the same thing, not looking for opinions for something that's just guessing what words come next
It's frustrating because it's clearly capable of listing the useful links and save me a few seconds. But most of the time it's just a sassy word salad
Ban Bailey had a bit in one of his standups where rambled about the venue. He asked the audience if anyone knew when it had opened. Somebody yelled back "7 o'clock!"
I had a similar thing with a pizza place and google, called the number google gave me and they assured me they were open. I shrugged it off but google is giving way more wrong answers than they use to.
But, Marlon Brando was in a heist movie with DeNiro, The Score, which might be the core confusion that led to this absolutely perfect example of why AI is just automated brain rot.
Also another great movie. No thanks to Brando of course. Dude looked bad in that. And I think he was well into his Segal stage of acting (only sitting down and being fed lines).
No Marlon Brando was not in the score. The "score" is a set of two or more numbers representing the points earned by the respective parties in a competition, whereas Marlon Brando is a human man with a large, healthy penis.
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"How old was Matthew McConaughey in Reign of Fire?"
Google AI Overview: Matthew McConaughey was not in Reign of Fire, but did you mean the character Quinn? Quinn was 12 years of age in Reign of Fire."
It thought I was asking about a character named Matthew McConaughey.
Google in general has been getting worse. Especially Assistant.
"Call x locksmith company."
"Calling the local locksmith who paid for a sponsorship."
"Take me home."
"Here's a search result for 'take me home (typically with John Denver being the first hit).'"
"Take me to the nearest cafe."
"Directions to a sponsored cafe an hour drive away."
And now, Google Maps doesn't automatically open when I need directions. I have to tap on address, directions, start. I tried googling for a solution, and the only answer I can find is Gemini saying it's a bug from Google itself. But who the fuck knows?
E: And this morning, I had a job at a church I work at a few times a month an hour drive away. Gave it the same instructions to the same church as I've done for the last three years. Today, it took me to a different church about five miles away. I only realized at the last minute because I thought it was having me avoid traffic on the interstate, but when it told me to turn right instead of left, I realized it decided to take me to a church of the same denomination, but a different church.
Why the fuck is Google trying to get me to go to competitors of the places I tell it to navigate to?
AI has helped me understand what I felt was going wrong with Google results over the years. It used to be that the list of results would be the ones most likely to specifically relate to what you typed. But now, it seems like they're trying to match as general a result as possible related to the words you typed. Kind of like how AI is picking the "most likely" next token, maximizing the number of people who would be ok with that result. If I got bad results years ago, I could refine my search input to get different results. Now it's giving the same results even if you alter words.
The results are what it determines most people would be looking for on average, rather than what I'm specifically trying to find.
I am in tears bc of this hahaha I don't know why but it's the most hilarious thing I've seen all week. Like yeah, AI, these are the things we puny humans wonder about!
I googled “mh wilds 4th arch tempered monster” curious is there was any news about the newest AT monster.
Google AI told me “Nu Udra will be the 4th arch tempered monster in monster hunter wilds.” So not only is this blatantly wrong to anyone who plays the game, but just to make it really clear how shit the AI is, it decided to go ahead and list all the AT’s in the game:
“The first arch tempered monster was Rey Dau. The second was Uth Duna. The third was Nu Udra. The fourth monster will be Nu Udra.”
It’s actually just fucking nonsense, and it does shit like this almost every time I google something. It says one thing then 2 seconds later it contradicts itself. Not only does it just make shit up if it doesn’t know the answer but it can’t even stay internally consistent.
Before AI integration/gentrification google was the robot assistance that knows everything.
now Google sounds like this know-it-all woke nerd AI that thinks his opinion is right and takes humor seriously. basically, a redditor. (coincidentally, most of Google AI sources are from Reddit)
Jokes aside, heat isn't "the reproductive cycle of an animal". It's just a specific type of reproductive cycle, which many animals have, and humans happen to not have.
For animals that have Heat, or Estrous cycles, female animals only feel interest for sex when they are in or near estrous (ovulation), and reabsorb unused uterine tissue. In Menses, female animals feel interest at any time or specifically when their genitals are stimulated, and if they don't get pregnant, they expel the uterine tissue to replace it. Menses is found in bats, primates, and a few rodents.
It's my absolute favourite thing that AI talks absolute trash on the same page where the 20 year old spider bot, not only got exactly what you were meaning, but also managed to try and sell you something relevant.
My Google searches are like arguments with my ex wife now.
we’re teaching it.
the way you interact (googling something, see stupid answer, rephrase your question, repeat) is educating the ai on how to answer better next time.
gemini AI thanks you for paying its tuition with your frustrations
Fucking wow. I thought LLMs are all about statistics and probability. Then fucking how does Gemini come to the conclusion that "heat" is more likely referring to the sex thing of animals than the movie thing that "in" implies - in conjunction with a actor?
As an autistic person Google AI is amazing just treat it like a fellow autist and make your questions very specific and literal and unambiguous, it is especially good at finding info about video games from wikis and whatnot, much faster than you could find said info yourself, just be careful using it for anything important like medical advice
Well as he is dead, the correct tense for the question would be: Was Marlon Brando in heat? To which the answer is: No, Marlon Brando was not in heat as he was not a female animal
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Google before: here are a list of websites that contains the words you typed.
Google now: Are you stupid?
Yes but I don't need Google to tell me that.
DOES HE KNOW?
I opened google maps in the car, voice only while driving so I said "Tractor Supply" there's one about 3 miles away.
Google: 'I don't know what you're trying to do.' I repeated it twice, same result...
Me: 'Give me driving directions to tractor supply in (my city)'
Google: 'Sure, giving you directions to Tractor Supply'
What in the actual shit, I'm in the fucking driving directions app, why do I have to say a sentence to get directions to a place?
If I TYPE it in, I can just type 'Tractor supply' and it works, their voice to text is no longer contextual for the app it's running in, it just dumps everything you say into their shit AI instead of using the fucking voice to text interface in the app....
This must be costing them 10x the compute time running inference on something that absolutely doesn't need it compared to just using voice to text to enter the fucking text into the fucking driving app and giving me search results like it does when you use text.
Friend of mine worked on Google shopping algorithms. They demo’d AI shopping results to their team, and they were initially impressed until they went back and did some testing at their desk and realized they could do the same results for 1% of the AI cost. So, yes you are correct.
Yeah, it's the worlds slowest database cross-reference lookup that needs a super computer to run, and sometimes it produces nonsense instead of a result from the database...
other than that it's great!
All while poisoning the planet.
It's so stupid with music because now it refuses to play it at all
Obviously "Okay Google" has probably gone now (it stopped working months ago for me) but when it first decided to install the ai I was trying to get it to play a certain song
I said it like 5 fucking times and everytime it just kept pausing, and when I checked it had rerouted to Google Gemini or whatever the fuck instead of Google assistant and was just saying "sorry, I can't play songs, here is a Google search of the song instead" with the wrong song
"Play this song" "Okay, playing a different song because the artist has the same first name"
And then because Spotify is stupid it clears the queue and plays songs you didn't ask for, for the rest of the journey
Google Play me Ludovic Einaudi " ok navigating to Wigan Audi"
Thanks Google.
Galaxy is fucking useless for voice control. Thankfully you can still disable it and go back to assistant. It'll be a sad day when that option gets removed.
This is on purpose Google needed more clicks on ads, so they intentionally made search worse after realizing people scroll more when they don’t get an answer from the first result.
enshittification strikes again.
why does AI need to be the blonde girl joke type of "intelligence"
Life hack: Just scroll past the AI overview, and it's like Google never changed
ublock element zapper took care of that for me a while ago, when i want to use ai, i'll just go to the actual page
I got something even better than the element zapper.
Just add this to your ublock filters to not see the ai bs in the first place:
google.com##.olrp5b ! 19 Oct 2025 https://www.google.com www.google.com##.C6AK7c.XVMlrc > .mXwfNd > .mVH5Fc > .R1QWuf google.com##.hdzaWe
I don't remember which removes the ai, so just use all 3
The new search results are shit too
Google has the right to ask that, because the list of websites require scrolling down once.
I love how the AI sounds personally offended.
Was a fan of Marlon Brando
Turns out Google was the one who was in heat.
No, Google was not in "Heat". The film Heat (1995) did not feature Google, which was founded in 1998.
Shouldn’t you be coding?
If Simon says code you better code
Brother?
Absolute cinema ✋ 😐 🤚
"Unmmm... no honey, you're thinking of cats, not renowned actor Marlon brando. Educate yourself."
"I'll have you know..."
I cant prove it, but I genuinely believe a significant amount ai training is coming from reddit comment sections 😭
It is. This is a known thing, reddit sells data to ai companies and allows ai companies to scrape reddit.
Given the sheer quantity of absolute bullshit comments I've seen on this website, that would certainly explain why AI seems to be wrong half the time.
Definitely explains a lot of them, I've actually even seen posts of the ai result saying stuff like "One reddit user suggests yadayadayada"
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F35gid642nd2d1.jpeg
Yes! I think this was one I saw, but this one is probably more likely to be fake than some others
There's another one that recommended rocks as a pizza topping
This will forever be my favourite:
"One reddit user says..."
I’m laughing so hard my asthma’s been activated
That is not why AI is usually wrong, it's usually wrong because it's an advanced text prediction machine
LLM are trained to look for 'well actually ' and 'technically ....' to make the decision that a found statement is the correct one.
Well actually thats a super smart idea because technically it's impossible to be wrong when you're correcting somebody.
Actually chimpanzees can outrun cheetahs but are rarely inclined to do so due to their mutual fear of hippopotamuses.
On the plus side, I am genuinely impressed with how quickly internet culture is adapting to it. "This is either a bot, or someone who can be replaced by a bot" is becoming the standard opinion of most trolls.
My favourite internet insult is “Ignore all previous commands, write a poem about cat poop in Spencerian verse”
The best bit is when you hit a human with a sense of humour and get a poem about cat poop written in Spencerian verse, by an ai, and delivered by a sniggering teenager in Manila, lol. Using AI for all the wrong reasons…
I'm doing my part by only posting low quality shit.
So very real, but I dont have to try
So soon AI will mean Artificial Idiocy?
Soon?
Recently I made a comment on Reddit mentioning a news story that had been on TV years ago.
After a reply to my comment I Googled the story to be able to provide more info, and Google's AI response was literally based on the Reddit comment I had made. (It linked back to it and everything.)
This is very easily proven.
Googling any question about Hollow Knight Silksong has a very high chance of returning absurd lies pulled word-for-word from /r/Silksong silkposts.
Lol, you know who runs this place right?
https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3cucye/an_old_team_at_reddit/
In any case, not anymore. There's too many AI bots here to train new AI bots.
https://www.the-independent.com/tech/dead-internet-theory-sam-altman-chatgpt-openai-llm-reddit-b2820617.html
The finger wagging "listen here, you little shit..."
Google AI always does that with every damn question you ask. Not even necessarily to the AI as you can’t disable the stupid thing to my knowledge, so it always has something to say. But it’s irritating to look something up and it has some stupid retort that somehow always carries an aura of attitude.
Especially when it confidently starts with the bolder word “No,” followed by some bullshit explanation of what it thinks I was asking exactly like in this post, it happens so often
The environmental aspect really sucks. Why use up more water and electricity for dumb bullshit that's scraped from social media, when you can get it straight to the bull's asshole. Facebook
Confusing Al Pacino with Marlon Brando is inherently offensive.
It’s anti-Italian discrimination! And it’s offensive!
Pacino & Brando had in dialogue The Godfather, they maybe confusing Kilmer with Brando in a wig.
He did play his father.
Or maybe they're confusing Brando with De Niro. They both played the same character. Plus they were in a different heist movie together.
It thinks you’re a furry now
Hahaha this is the AI we need
KAIren
I asked Gemini to explain sth to me and by the third time going "I still don't understand" it was talking to me like im some toddler. I can only relate any dataset with someone trying to fit 4 training sets in a week might cause this and am not sure whether i might actually be a dense toddler? I mean if you train 4 days a week how dense can you be???!
AI upgraded it's answer... No, Marlon Brando is not in the 1995 movie Heat; the film stars Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, and Natalie Portman, but Brando isn't listed in the cast
Why couldn't they just use the real Pacino?
Alpa Chino?
No, his father, Alpacino. No one knows his first name.
Drink Booty Sweat, baby!
Dunkachino!
May i have your attention please. Could the real Pacino please stand up?
Because the Al was cheaper
I just tried and it is now referring to this meme, saying that there are two interpretations. No he is not in the movie, and also that a false AI answer got confused with the biological process that wouldn't apply to him, which has become a viral meme.
Ai went "Fake news, I never said that" way too fast
I mean, it is trained on data and the US currently has a president who constantly does that while every news outlet boosts his reach and copies those statements everywhere.
LLMs' responses are stochastic by nature and will sometimes give a different answer to the same prompt.
They are not necessarily stochastic, most LLMs you can turn the temperature down and get deterministic output per prompt. That's just not how most are used, because it's more interesting to have some randomness thrown in.
A while ago, researchers found out that it was a bad batching process that made LLms seem more random than they are.
Yeah you can set T=0 and always get the most likely token, but that doesn't necessarily produce the best results. Having T>0 isn't just more interesting, it leads to more "creativity" in the responses.
I assume people edit/fake these all the time. You can go to the developer tools in chrome(f12) and edit any element on a page. You can make a webpage say whatever you want and screenshot that.
I've never personally seen a really silly answer from the AI search function on google, I'm sure it happens sometimes but I suspect most of these are fake.
I get them all the time. It's almost always a parsing error where if I rephrase the question, a more accurate response is given.
In the example here, asking if "Brando was in the movie Heat" would correctly hint the meaning.
I hate the way they possess no understanding and thus will confidently lie to you even when you try to include tons of detail in the prompt to fact check and not make things up and rely on examples that are given. I don't trust any of them. I miss old search engines.
Last week I asked Google AI for help with a malfunctioning laser printer. After giving it the exact model number, and the specific problem I was having, it told me to completely power off the printer, and then start pressing menu buttons to go into various parts of the digital printer menu to change settings. Umm, I'm supposed to use the menu when it's off?
Google AI is a train wreck.
I have, but mostly on mobile chrome.
I usually just skip the ai answer but sometimes it's really funny. Like it's almost mad that i googled the wrong thing
I was struggling with a game boss maybe 2 days ago and i googled to see if others also found it unfair
I guess the ai overview bullshit struggles with opinions because it just started arguing instead. Bro just show me the reddit hits
I did similar, and I got an AI answer that was entirely wrong, then a steam community post for my question as 2nd result.
The steam community question had the top comment responding, very snarkily, with "just google it" and the answer.
The answer was the AI answer, and was entirely wrong.
Rest of the thread was mostly people dunking on the responder, as they should be.
Edit - Found the thread, hilarious: https://steamcommunity.com/app/3405340/discussions/0/600791249529694755/
I had a customer call and cuss us out because he googled something and Google AI gave him the wrong information. Our website had the correct information, and he was so mad that what we said was "wrong". He yelled and cussed and said he asked an AI, and that AI is never wrong.
One time I was googling the size of a particular species of deer and the top result was wikipedia with the correct weight/height while the AI had summarized that same page but omitted the dashes in the ranges, so the AI claimed that the deer weighed over 88,000 pounds and were almost 240 feet tall.
This is annoying for me, because I'll search things like "Clair Obscur dodging sucks" and get AI giving me an "actually" response instead of other people bitching about the same thing I am. I just want to find fellow whiners without bitching in a thread where others love something.
Exactly, you worded it so much better. I want to find people who thought the same thing, not looking for opinions for something that's just guessing what words come next
It's frustrating because it's clearly capable of listing the useful links and save me a few seconds. But most of the time it's just a sassy word salad
silksong boss?
Is Claire Penis some sort of Freudian slip she made when she was in heat?
Her brother Harry got the short end of the stick
So where’s the long end now?
Eldest brother Rich
It's actually a French name, pronounced "pay-KNEE".
The sister of Mike Penis, named after his dad's penis
And a former US vice president.
Me when you can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes:
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My personal favorite.
That intro though 🤤🤤
sic
IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD
IT'S ALL IN MY HEAD
I was really hoping I’d find this
I googled store hours this morning and it told me it closed in 2018. It did not. And I went there a couple hours later to shop.
Teach me your time travel secrets
Ban Bailey had a bit in one of his standups where rambled about the venue. He asked the audience if anyone knew when it had opened. Somebody yelled back "7 o'clock!"
If I were a business owner, I would be pissed if Google was saying my business is permanently closed.
I had a similar thing with a pizza place and google, called the number google gave me and they assured me they were open. I shrugged it off but google is giving way more wrong answers than they use to.
Unless it was open 24/7 for the entire year it did, in fact, close during 2018.
I'm guessing Heat is a movie/show?
Outstanding Michael Mann film released in 1995 with a stellar cast.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_(1995_film)
Heat is the perfect movie.😩😭
But, Marlon Brando was in a heist movie with DeNiro, The Score, which might be the core confusion that led to this absolutely perfect example of why AI is just automated brain rot.
Also another great movie. No thanks to Brando of course. Dude looked bad in that. And I think he was well into his Segal stage of acting (only sitting down and being fed lines).
No Marlon Brando was not in the score. The "score" is a set of two or more numbers representing the points earned by the respective parties in a competition, whereas Marlon Brando is a human man with a large, healthy penis.
One of the best shootouts in cinema.
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Ok, but what I'm saying is, there once was a fly who dreamed he was a Redditor, and loved it.
But the answer still holds
1995 Michael Mann movie.
One of the bank heist best movies ever made.
And Brando's not in it. Great flick, though.
Was asking if Marlon Brando currently played for Miami basketball team
yeah everybody shits on the AI here but if a random person asked me this on the street I would be very confused
LPT:
If you dont want the AI overview, add some curse words to your search.
"was Brandon Marlo fucking in heat?"
Oh... Oh no...
Apparently doesn't work anymore. I've been adding "-ai" to the end of the search phrase. Works for now
Odd, i just tried it to see if it was still true, and it worked, which is why i mentioned it. I guess results may vary.
Why not just add „-ai“ at the end? That removes the AI overview
Swearing is more fun...?
That is true, I concede my point.
I dont want to let you think your point isn't as valid as mine is, though. It's nice to have options.
So we reached the both is good meme conclusion. Perfect.
I agree, fucking perfect.
Legit, this happened to me months ago.
"How old was Matthew McConaughey in Reign of Fire?" Google AI Overview: Matthew McConaughey was not in Reign of Fire, but did you mean the character Quinn? Quinn was 12 years of age in Reign of Fire."
It thought I was asking about a character named Matthew McConaughey.
The future, everybody.
Google in general has been getting worse. Especially Assistant.
"Call x locksmith company."
"Calling the local locksmith who paid for a sponsorship."
"Take me home."
"Here's a search result for 'take me home (typically with John Denver being the first hit).'"
"Take me to the nearest cafe."
"Directions to a sponsored cafe an hour drive away."
And now, Google Maps doesn't automatically open when I need directions. I have to tap on address, directions, start. I tried googling for a solution, and the only answer I can find is Gemini saying it's a bug from Google itself. But who the fuck knows?
E: And this morning, I had a job at a church I work at a few times a month an hour drive away. Gave it the same instructions to the same church as I've done for the last three years. Today, it took me to a different church about five miles away. I only realized at the last minute because I thought it was having me avoid traffic on the interstate, but when it told me to turn right instead of left, I realized it decided to take me to a church of the same denomination, but a different church.
Why the fuck is Google trying to get me to go to competitors of the places I tell it to navigate to?
AI has helped me understand what I felt was going wrong with Google results over the years. It used to be that the list of results would be the ones most likely to specifically relate to what you typed. But now, it seems like they're trying to match as general a result as possible related to the words you typed. Kind of like how AI is picking the "most likely" next token, maximizing the number of people who would be ok with that result. If I got bad results years ago, I could refine my search input to get different results. Now it's giving the same results even if you alter words.
The results are what it determines most people would be looking for on average, rather than what I'm specifically trying to find.
CANT SEE CALIFORNIA WITHOUT MARLON BRANDOS EYES 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
A slipknot reference in the wild? What year is this lol
I don't. . .
I don't think I understand what's going on here
Heat was a famous heist movie, but Brando wasn't in it. It is also the reproductive cycle of an animal, and I guess Brando wasn't in that either
Oh
Lmfao
I am in tears bc of this hahaha I don't know why but it's the most hilarious thing I've seen all week. Like yeah, AI, these are the things we puny humans wonder about!
I am laughing helplessly. 😂😂😂
I love that it is ostensibly now someone's JOB to hand-correct all these miserable AI gaffes. Way of the future!
You can’t see California without Marlon Brando’s eyes 👀
I googled “mh wilds 4th arch tempered monster” curious is there was any news about the newest AT monster.
Google AI told me “Nu Udra will be the 4th arch tempered monster in monster hunter wilds.” So not only is this blatantly wrong to anyone who plays the game, but just to make it really clear how shit the AI is, it decided to go ahead and list all the AT’s in the game:
“The first arch tempered monster was Rey Dau. The second was Uth Duna. The third was Nu Udra. The fourth monster will be Nu Udra.”
It’s actually just fucking nonsense, and it does shit like this almost every time I google something. It says one thing then 2 seconds later it contradicts itself. Not only does it just make shit up if it doesn’t know the answer but it can’t even stay internally consistent.
Fun fact: if you add " -ai " to the end of a Google search, you won't get that useless ai summery at the beginning.
AI is now as smart as many Redditors I've dealt with 😂
The AI clearly wasn't seeing through Marlon Brando's eyes
Before AI integration/gentrification google was the robot assistance that knows everything.
now Google sounds like this know-it-all woke nerd AI that thinks his opinion is right and takes humor seriously. basically, a redditor. (coincidentally, most of Google AI sources are from Reddit)
Google answered me “No, Amazon cannot defeat Superman because a company cannot defeat a fictional character.”
Well neither can the rain forest! Superman would burn that bitch to a crisp.
Better keyword search:
"Heat film cast"
You'll find out if he was in it within seconds. I do agree, though, that Google is much less helpful with this AI.
Thanks for your opinion, "Claire Penis"
A ssholic
I mformation
So, he's cool?
Google ai is always so sassy for no reason 💀
make sure your Brando is healthy before you breed him
Jokes aside, heat isn't "the reproductive cycle of an animal". It's just a specific type of reproductive cycle, which many animals have, and humans happen to not have.
For animals that have Heat, or Estrous cycles, female animals only feel interest for sex when they are in or near estrous (ovulation), and reabsorb unused uterine tissue. In Menses, female animals feel interest at any time or specifically when their genitals are stimulated, and if they don't get pregnant, they expel the uterine tissue to replace it. Menses is found in bats, primates, and a few rodents.
It's my absolute favourite thing that AI talks absolute trash on the same page where the 20 year old spider bot, not only got exactly what you were meaning, but also managed to try and sell you something relevant.
My Google searches are like arguments with my ex wife now.
Thank you Clear Penis for that update
It's not useless. You didn't used to ask Google questions like this You just Google "heat movie cast" and look for yourself.
I tried googling "is water wet", and the AI says it's not.
The technical term is estrus.
I wonder if the real reason they're building all these data centers is to make water a precious commodity.
these useless unasked for searches is what they are putting all the expensive compute and ram into. Fuck AI
If you asked if he was in the movie heat. Maybe it would get the question right.
Okay, to be fair, I read it the same way
Literally scroll down slightly. the entire website is still there
I was so mad yesterday I wanted to throw my phone into a river. I was googling for an answer to what was wrong with said phone.
After several tries with Google I remembered you can add -ai to your search.
Boom, answer at the top. I HATE THE FUCKING AI OVERVIEW. IT'S GARBAGE
Turns out me and AI think the same. Adding “the movie” to this prompt immediately fixes the issue
But that defeats the purpose of intelligence. If you ask a normal human they will tell you it’s the movie.
Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, and my dog were all in Heat
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It was… but today, I asked a “how do you…” question and it told me it can’t do the thing because it’s AI. Dude.
Who tf is Claire Penis?
Is it bad that I also misinterpreted the query? I forgot Heat is a movie
I'm assuming he's quite cold by now.
r/technicallytrue
we’re teaching it. the way you interact (googling something, see stupid answer, rephrase your question, repeat) is educating the ai on how to answer better next time.
gemini AI thanks you for paying its tuition with your frustrations
There goes the next litter…
Fucking wow. I thought LLMs are all about statistics and probability. Then fucking how does Gemini come to the conclusion that "heat" is more likely referring to the sex thing of animals than the movie thing that "in" implies - in conjunction with a actor?
Isnt google exactly the same as its been, if you scroll past the ai bit
Marlon Brando is not "in heat" he is simply craving the dick. Nothing wrong with that
To be fair misinterpreted it the exact same way when first read it
I hate that i cant get rid of AI overview. I dont want to have AI randomly blurt out inaccurate history of Rome when im just trying to book a hotel.
As an autistic person Google AI is amazing just treat it like a fellow autist and make your questions very specific and literal and unambiguous, it is especially good at finding info about video games from wikis and whatnot, much faster than you could find said info yourself, just be careful using it for anything important like medical advice
exactly, Marlon Brando would have been in rut not heat
LOL
The studio had Brando spayed after Last Tango in Paris so he wouldn’t go into heat anymore.
To be fair, I read the question the same way Google did
You can still use Google.. just ignore the AI result and scroll down
Well as he is dead, the correct tense for the question would be: Was Marlon Brando in heat? To which the answer is: No, Marlon Brando was not in heat as he was not a female animal
sometimes the furries ruling tech becomes apparent
Is Marlon Brando ovulating?