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Posted by sancho-panza 10 hours ago

When did Google get so weird?(sancho.bearblog.dev)
1039 points | 564 commentspage 13
ButlerianJihad 10 hours ago||
When they were the mavericks using Linux in the year 2000, and the C-suite all went to attend bman and left stylized OOO icons on their front web page. Everyone's all shocked, I tell you, shocked at this weirdness.
shadowgovt 10 hours ago||
Oh, this is an easy question to answer.

The AI layer handles queries as plaintext, which means if you're searching for say a quote from a book, it will often misinterpret as a direct statement from you, not a string you're trying to match on the internet. Especially if the quote is an imperative statement.

I'll be curious to see how they resolve this issue. But it has been chronic for awhile now; they SWAT individual instances of misinterpretation but new ones keep sneaking in.

krackers 10 hours ago||
Isn't this easily solved with a prompt prefix "You are an AI agent on the google search page. The following user input is what the user typed into the search box".
im3w1l 10 hours ago|||
I think it should also be fed the search results. Like if there is a lyrics match or something that "explains away" the query. But if there isn't then maybe it should be taken at face value.
bakugo 10 hours ago|||
It would be, if it wasn't intended. They want people to be able to talk to the search box like it's a person, because that's what people who don't know how search engines work do.
Hugsbox 10 hours ago|||
Shouldn't an AI attached to a search engine actually do a search with your input and give you results based on that rather than just taking it at face value and assuming you're trauma-dumping on it?
im3w1l 10 hours ago||
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rossant 8 hours ago||
I can’t upvote this enough. This is such a terrible idea. We’re really living in a dystopian world.
schainks 9 hours ago||
Boomers have been googling like this for over a decade. You are not the target customer for an empathetic computer.
IshKebab 10 hours ago||
We get it. Google uses AI. AI is weird sometimes.

Also I think you're vastly underestimating the weird incoherent shit that the average stupid person is capable of typing into computers. With no further information, I don't think it's unreasonable that that search was from a stupid/bored person moaning about Dario not coming over. Yeah kinda weird response but people like this exist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HXFurHCkP8

Androider 10 hours ago|
It is unreasonable that the Google Search AI replies with this drivel, when the first search result contains the actual correct result. The AI should look at the search results and say “This was a meme in 2018…”
tyingq 9 hours ago||
Had to try it. And it delivers :)

> hes never coming over Dario Amodei

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei will actually be joining President Donald Trump for a private dinner at the White House tonight, Sunday, September 27, 2026.

CNBC While it is true that he was noticeably absent from the high-profile state dinner held for Chinese President Xi Jinping earlier this week—which was attended by other major tech figures like Elon Musk and Sam Altman—

varispeed 8 hours ago||
Welcome to the new world.

I'd like to skip to the part where AI robot will give me consoling fellatio.

chaostheory 5 hours ago||
Google got weird on the day Pichai sided with the ads team/division over the search team/division, resulting in the enshittification of Google Search which led to people relying on LLMs since search no longer works
wyager 6 hours ago|
> a search engine which does not have human emotions

I mean TBD, not sure how capable the model they're using for search summary is

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