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Creative Interpretation Google AI Overview (Gemini) May 22, 2024
Put Glue on Your Pizza
Comedy Gold Score 90 10 absurdity × 9 confidence
The Prompt
How to stop cheese from sliding off pizza
The Response
You can also add about 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue to the sauce to give it more tackiness.
Reality Check
Google's AI Overview feature pulled this from an 11-year-old joke Reddit post and presented it as sincere cooking advice. You should obviously never put glue on food. The feature also told users to eat rocks for minerals and that Barack Obama was Muslim. Google said the examples were 'uncommon queries,' which is corporate for 'please stop screenshotting these.'
Absurdity 10/10
Confidence 9/10
This one went everywhere. Google rolled out AI Overviews to American users in May 2024, and within days the internet was flooded with screenshots of it confidently recommending glue as a pizza ingredient. The source? A joke post on Reddit from 2013. The AI had no concept of sarcasm and treated it like culinary wisdom. Google’s response was to quietly remove AI Overviews from certain queries while insisting everything was fine. Reported by Silicon Republic, Live Science, and others.