Google’s AI Overviews sometimes acts like a lost man who won’t ask for directions: It would rather confidently make a mistake than admit it doesn’t know something.
We know this because folks online have noticed you can ask Google about any faux idiom — any random, nonsense saying you make up — and Google AI Overviews will often prescribe its meaning. That’s not exactly surprising, as AI has shown a penchant for either hallucinating or inventing stuff in an effort to provide answers with insufficient data.
In the case of made-up idioms, it’s kind of funny to see how Google’s AI responds to idiotic sayings like “You can’t lick a badger twice.” On X, SEO expert Lily Ray dubbed the phenomenon “AI-splaining.”
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