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- Google Search’s AI Overview results are known to confidently give wrong answers, and they continue to do so.
- The latest gaffe surfaced when users asked if it is 2025, to which AI Overview incorrectly claims it is 2024 and not 2025.
- Such confidently wrong results highlight the perils of relying on AI for fact-checking. Users can turn off AI Overview for cleaner search results.
If you bumped your head a few years ago and just woke up, brace yourself: the world is basically run by AI now, for better or worse. You’re probably dizzy, half from the concussion, and the other half from all the AI chatbots around you. Once you recover from the shock and Google if it’s finally 2025, AI still can’t tell you if it indeed is 2025.
Reddit user Independent-Wait-873 asked Google Search if it was 2025, to which Google Search’s AI Overview very confidently replied that it wasn’t 2025 but 2024. Curiously, AI Overview got the date and month right for the user, but it couldn’t get the year right.