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I will grant the query \u201chow much glue to add to pizza\u201d is an unusual one \u2014\u00a0but not that unusual given the recent uproar around glue pizza. As spotted by Colin McMillen on Bluesky<\/a>, if you ask Google how much glue to add to your pizza, the right answer \u2014 none! \u2014 does not appear. Instead, it cites our girl Katie suggesting you add an eighth of a cup. Whoops!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n You may be wondering if this is a faked screenshot. I wondered that, too. But The Verge<\/em> confirmed by running our own query:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Just phenomenal stuff here, folks. Every time someone like me reports on Google\u2019s AI getting something wrong, we\u2019re training the AI to be wronger<\/em>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Those of us of an, ahem, certain age<\/em> will remember the phenomenon of \u201cGoogle bombing<\/a>;\u201d the classic example was using the words \u201cmiserable failure\u201d with a link to George W. Bush. Done frequently enough, the result was that a Google search for \u201cmiserable failure\u201d returned, well, George W. Bush. Google figured out how to squish this fun game at some point in the late 2000s, but with its new AI results, hey, the game\u2019s back on! I am just going to write \u201cmiserable failure\u201d in the same sentence as George W. Bush once more for old times\u2019 sake, and maybe in a day or two, you\u2019ll get a great new AI search result, who knows!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n This is not, by the way, a universal problem. I asked Perplexity.AI<\/a> how much glue to put on pizza, and it told me, \u201cI would strongly advise against putting any glue on pizza. Glue is not an edible ingredient and consuming it could be toxic and harmful to your health.\u201d It then goes on to explain how the \u201cglue on pizza\u201d meme originated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n ChatGPT doesn\u2019t recommend glue on pizza, either:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Naturally, this is not the only thing that is going wrong, though it is probably the funniest. This other thing is pretty good though: Google can\u2019t answer questions about its own products anymore, thanks to its AI. Verge editor Richard Lawler asked how to turn on screenshots<\/a> in Chrome\u2019s Incognito mode. Google\u2019s AI gave two answers, both wrong. In one, it suggests taking a screenshot in a normal Chrome tab.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n In the other, Google\u2019s AI insists that taking a screenshot in Chrome\u2019s Incognito mode simply isn\u2019t possible:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Unfortunately, by describing this problem, I am fairly sure I am now making it worse. Google is going to slurp up my fine prose describing the issue and feed it back to the unwary as proof that Chrome Incognito screenshots are impossible, and that glue belongs on your pizza. What will mischievous bloggers do with this information, I wonder?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n