The article criticizes Google's AI Overviews for continuing to deliver erroneous information, specifically the wrong year in search results. Despite the rollout aiming for accuracy, users are encountering significant inaccuracies like claiming it is still 2024 or saying some locations perceive it as 2025. Various contradictory outputs confuse users, while errors in date recognition persist despite the apparent scale of user engagement, raising concerns about the reliability of Google's AI-generated content.
The erroneous results cited multiple websites, ranging from Reddit's r/AskHistorians to a Wikipedia entry for the year 2025.
The synthetic gaslighting got wilder, somehow, on the second try... not everywhere on Earth.
This AI Overview has everything. Starting off with a claim that it's actually last year.
A New Zealand shout-out for some reason. Then, a Shyamalan-esque conclusion where it says the real date.
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