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Google AI Reportedly Delivering Confidently Incorrect and Harmful Information
- Occurred
- May 14, 2024
- Published
- Jun 1, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Google's AI search engine has reportedly been providing users with confidently incorrect and often harmful information. Reports highlight numerous inaccuracies, including misleading health advice and dangerous cooking suggestions. For example, it has falsely claimed Barack Obama as the first Muslim U.S. President, reflecting fringe conspiracy theories, or recommending that glue can be an ingredient in pizza.
Developers
Deployers
Harmed parties
- Google users
- General public
Tags
- google ai search
- response
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: AI search engine providing confidently incorrect and harmful information falls under language model failures.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8