Wtf is google ai smoking

Just gets worse the more you look at it. The explanations are completely switched.

But would you say…. “An ukulele?” 🤔

So golden starts with a vowel huh?

“A golden” is right but not for the reason given. But “a apple” is not. Even my autocorrect makes it an. Had to really make sure it says “a” in my comment not “an” here. AI is smoking everything all at once I bet

No thanks. I'll just get on a airplane, where they serve me a apple. The arrival at a airport. I'll get a Uber to the a hotel. Lmao Hotel was a joke.

Lol and not starting with "an" vowel and "an" consonant!

All 3 examples of /a/ use vowel sounds, not even one consonant example. And g is not a vowel sound. Umbrella is used twice. Google AI is completely cooked. Do bear in mind though a lot of American speakers seem to be using only "a", they might even be inconsistent with it and place "an" in front of the same word later.

It has both a umbrella and an umbrella. Wow. Two umbrellas.

A owl?

Google's AI overview is terrible. I have no idea what possessed them to think it was ready to appear at the top of all search results. It's wrong so often that I don't trust it for anything and just scroll past.

And that's the AI overview lol Gemini? : nah thanks I'm good so far lol


It depresses me that we have a whole generation growing up that will blindly believe AI. Or not question the "hallucinations" (i.e. bullshit) it spits out. Or, what if all, not have any inkling that it is indeed spitting out bullshit. AI is such a sad half joke-its not intelligent at all, but sure is artificial.

I'm trying not to wake my wife and silently laugh

Reading this made my eyes bleed. If someone said "a apple" in a sentence, I would assume that English isn't their first language. Also the reason the phrase "an hour" is used is because the h is silent, and whether "an" or "a" is used is based on the sound rather than the letter that comes first. Google ai needs to lay off the crack.

\`The correct phrase is "a golden" because "golden" starts with vowel\` lol

Why is Gemini so bad?

Just skip right past the AI overview whenever you Google anything. I wish we had the option of turning that off.

Looks like AI still needs some basic grammar lessons. Maybe it's experimenting with a new dialect of nonsense.

*HAL:  I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.*

I must say it's bizarre how bad Google's "Ai Overview" is when their actual AI chat product Gemini is really very good. But the bad one is the one they put up front and center for everyone.

AI as we have it just averages the answers/info it has and spits out a mathematical average of them. It knows nothing. It understands nothing. It can speak like a person & mostly understand normal text - which is impressive but it is not intelligent. It doesn't know anything - it's just math.

The fact that people see stuff like this and still use AI for information is baffling to me

This is what people think is going to usher in an age of utopia. Lol

Generative AI is so fucking useless…pro tip if you add “-ai” to the end of a google search it won’t show you this garbage.

Yes, I’ve seen Google AI giving wrong grammar examples… I am an ESL teacher and it hurts me… Imagine language learners trying to get an answer. But what hurt me more was that one time when I was lurking on the Longman dictionary website and it provided “regular” conjugation of an irregular verb, smth like “go - goed”. My guess is that they wrote a code but didn’t add irregular verbs to it?? Still awful.

Everyone is looking at the “a apple” but does anyone else see the irony of Gemini suggesting “a umbrella” and also “an umbrella” when poorly and incorrectly explaining how the indefinite articles work?

Ask artificial intelligence a question, get artificial answers.

I saw a post today where someone looked up if hippos were intelligent and it said they were smart enough to perform complex medical procedures. It made me laugh my ass off

I can't remember the last time a language model made such a mistake. Can't imagine GPT-4.5 or Claude making such an error, but they inherently can't be with the search. It takes a lot of response time and burns cash. I don't understand why they keep that feature.

the second one is also fucked up (“an” is for words that start with a vowel, not consonant). it clearly swapped the definitions yet used examples of vowels for both of them lol

OG kush

yeah this is the same google AI that tells you to put glue on your pizza to stop the cheese falling off

OG kush

Probably alphabets

AI is like that drunken know-it-all at the corner bar who doesn't really know it all.

It’s definitely not good stuff