Description: Google's search AI erroneously claimed no African country begins with 'K', along with various other geography-and-letter-based questions, misguiding users with a flawed featured snippet. Originating from ChatGPT-written posts and inaccurately scraped by Google, this incident highlights issues in AI-generated content and misinformation in search results, compromising Google's reliability as an information source.
Editor Notes: Incident 609 is occasionally being referenced in reports associated with Incident 693.
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Incident ID
609
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2023-08-16
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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theatlantic.com · 2023
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There is no easy way to explain the sum of Google’s knowledge. It is ever-expanding. Endless. A growing web of hundreds of billions of websites, more data than even 100,000 of the most expensive iPhones mashed together could possibly store.…
futurism.com · 2023
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Google's AI-powered search doesn't understand geography. Or, apparently, the alphabet. And definitely not both at the same time.
It all started when a Bluesky user declared that Google is now "dead." They included a screenshot of Google's f…
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