Google's AI search feature suggested using glue to keep cheese sticking to a pizza

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Google's AI search feature suggested using glue to keep cheese sticking to a pizza
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According to Mastodon:

The Google AI isn’t hallucinating about glue in pizza, it’s just over indexing an 11 year old Reddit post by a dude named fucksmith.

https://mstdn.social/@Kurt/112488468889090491

That’s fucking brilliant. Post truth era ❤️❤️❤️

Look at that comment yo upvote ratio. A human user could easily tell just from that the advice is questionable, but the machine thinks it's a highly engaging comment and values it more than a highly upvoted comment with no discussion under it.