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wants to be in the artificial intelligence arena, but despite the company’s best efforts, its AI products have been remarkable for all the wrong reasons. Employees labeled its first AI model as “worse than useless,” and its follow-up, Gemini, has been steeped in controversy since launch. True to form, Google’s latest AI product continues this trend of issues and controversy.

• Last month, Google introduced AI summaries of search results, attempting to create a ChatGPT-like experience within its search engine using the Gemini AI engine.
• However, the summaries quickly stirred controversy, suggesting people add glue to keep cheese on pizza, eat rocks, or jump off a bridge.

If only it was a joke… The AI summaries went viral for their absurd — and sometimes dangerous — advice. Despite dozens of “technical improvements” and company defenses, Google has now taken AI summaries offline to fix the issues. Clearly, Google doesn’t think its latest AI blunder is a laughing matter.