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When did Google get so weird?

Google's AI Overview responded to a search for a 2010s basketball meme with empathetic relationship advice, treating the query "hes never coming over dario" as a personal crisis rather than a search string.

💬 Engineers note that Google's AI processes queries as plaintext statements rather than string matches, leading to frequent misinterpretations.
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Sancho Panza's Thoughts When did Google get so f-ing weird? I recently had an experience while doing a simple Google search that was so profoundly weird that it stopped me in my tracks. Understanding this Google se...
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