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Can you trust Google AI search results? The internet is unconvinced.

Gluing cheese to pizza, eating rocks, and more AI search results have flooded our feeds. Are they legit?

Tim Marcin

on May 24, 2024

Google's AI search is far from beloved online. Credit: Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Google has rolled out its search with generative AI results, and thus far, the results have been mixed.

The tool, at least in my experience, has proven less than reliable. While sometimes it can be helpful, it often gets in the way of the results you're looking for. The internet has noticed that Google's AI search isn't perfect — far from it.

Toward the end of this week, folks began posting apparent AI Google search results online. There was a mix of things that were flat-out wrong, some dangerous, and many hilariously nonsensical. To be clear, it's nearly impossible to recreate these alleged AI searches perfectly. As an NBA fan, I tested this "dog in the NBA" search earlier this week and got the same mistake from Google's AI. So clearly, there are some significant problems.

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There were so many tweets about Google's AI search results this week. To be clear, though some of these seem like plausible hallucinations made by Google, I didn't try to recreate all the results. But the story is that these results have become memes — even if the results are, or are not, truthful. Google's AI search has some problems, and, to be frank, access to accurate information should be more critical than it seems to tech giants these days.

Some of these posts are from people pointing out what appear to be real, serious problems, while others are just funny memes. So the next time you see someone posting about their Google AI search results, take it with a grain of salt.

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So, be careful out there searching. It appears things are...not going well. But, hey, at least we have some memes.

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Tim Marcin

Associate Editor, Culture

Tim Marcin is an Associate Editor on the culture team at Mashable, where he mostly digs into the weird parts of the internet. You'll also see some coverage of memes, tech, sports, trends, and the occasional hot take. You can find him on Bluesky (sometimes), Instagram (infrequently), or eating Buffalo wings (as often as possible).