Google shuffles the search deck – Platformer
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This week, a Hard Fork listener pointed me to a curious search result. Ask for the “difference between a sauce and a dressing,” he found, and Google would present you with one of its AI overviews. “The main difference between a sauce and a dressing is their purpose,” it stated. “Sauces add flavor and texture to dishes, while dressings are used to protect wounds.”
After I dug around a bit, I saw that people had been sharing this query on social media for a month, and that it had gone viral on X last week. It is not the most embarrassing AI overview I’ve seen — “dressing” is a perfectly acceptable word to call a bandage that protects a wound.
What sent the AI overview viral, I suspect, is the way Google’s large language model collapsed the various meanings of “dressing” into…
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