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\u201cRunning with scissors is a cardio exercise that can increase your heart rate and require concentration and focus,\u201d says Google\u2019s new AI search feature<\/a>. \u201cSome say it can also improve your pores and give you strength.\u201d<\/p>\n Google\u2019s AI feature pulled this response from a website called Little Old Lady Comedy<\/a>, which, as its name makes clear, is a comedy blog. But the gaffe is so ridiculous that it\u2019s been circulating on social media, along with other obviously incorrect AI overviews on Google. Effectively, everyday users are now red teaming these products on social media.<\/p>\n In cybersecurity, some companies will hire \u201cred teams\u201d \u2013 ethical hackers \u2013 who attempt to breach their products as though they\u2019re bad actors. If a red team finds a vulnerability, then the company can fix it before the product ships. Google certainly conducted a form of red teaming before releasing an AI product on Google Search, which is estimated<\/a> to process trillions of queries per day.<\/p>\n It\u2019s surprising, then, when a highly resourced company like Google still ships products with obvious flaws. That\u2019s why it\u2019s now become a meme to clown on the failures of AI products, especially in a time when AI is becoming more ubiquitous. We\u2019ve seen this with bad spelling on ChatGPT<\/a>, video generators\u2019 failure to understand how humans eat spaghetti<\/a>, and Grok AI<\/a> news summaries on X that, like Google, don\u2019t understand satire. But these memes could actually serve as useful feedback for companies developing and testing AI.<\/p>\n Despite the high-profile nature of these flaws, tech companies often downplay their impact.<\/p>\n \u201cThe examples we\u2019ve seen are generally very uncommon queries, and aren\u2019t representative of most people\u2019s experiences,\u201d Google told TechCrunch in an emailed statement. \u201cWe conducted extensive testing before launching this new experience, and will use these isolated examples as we continue to refine our systems overall.\u201d<\/p>\n Not all users see the same AI results, and by the time a particularly bad AI suggestion gets around, the issue has often already been rectified. In a more recent case that went viral, Google suggested that if you\u2019re making pizza but the cheese won\u2019t stick<\/a>, you could add about an eighth of a cup of glue to the sauce to \u201cgive it more tackiness.\u201d As it turned out, the AI is pulling this answer from an eleven-year-old Reddit comment<\/a> from a user named \u201cf\u2013\u2013smith.\u201d<\/p>\n