Contemplations

Why I dislike artificial intelligence

This is the post of May 29, 2025, complete with the screen capture image.

• May 29, 2025: I just saw a post on Mastodon by Lauren Weinstein⩘ :
  "Billions of dollars. Untold megawatts of power. To create a low grade #Google #AI Moron. #AISlop"
  It included a screenshot of a Google search query: "Is it 2025?"
  The AI Overview answer: "No, it is not 2025. The current year is 2024. According to the calendar. It is May 28, 2024."
  So I decided to try it myself.
  The AI Overview answer I received: "No, it is not 2025. The current year is 2025. According to the calendar, we are in the year 2025."
  
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  This is the technology Big Tech is betting our future on.
  
  • Note: I stopped using Google search—and actually almost everything Google-related—years ago because of what I consider to be their unethical behavior, for example, related to advertising in search results. So their frequent stumbles with AI don't affect me directly, but they do leave me shaking my head. (At this time, I use DuckDuckGo's NoAI search: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/⩘ .)