Decoding AI 'Illusions': Google Search Still Suggests Adding Glue to Your Pizza

On June 12, an unusual incident regarding Google's artificial intelligence search results came to light, particularly its bizarre recommendation to add glue to pizza. This peculiar suggestion gained popularity when influencer Katie Notopoulos created and consumed a “glue pizza,” igniting extensive online discussions. Recently, a more concerning issue has surfaced: Google's AI appears to be learning from internet trends, including these absurd memes.

While searches like "How much glue should I add to pizza?" are uncommon, the recent buzz around "glue pizza" increases the likelihood of such queries. Security researcher Colin McMillen highlighted that when users ask Google how much glue to add to pizza, the response is alarmingly inaccurate—it suggests adding an eighth of a cup of glue, a clearly dangerous recommendation. This was confirmed by The Verge, which pointed out that when users report AI errors, they unknowingly teach the AI to repeat these mistakes.

Moreover, Google's AI is facing difficulties with questions about its own products. When The Verge’s editors inquired how to take a screenshot in Chrome's incognito mode, the AI provided two incorrect suggestions: one advised capturing a screenshot in regular mode, while the other falsely claimed that screenshots cannot be taken in incognito mode.

It's important to note that Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, previously acknowledged in an interview that the “hallucinations” generated by these AI summaries are due to fundamental flaws in large language models (LLMs), which underpin this technology. He admitted that there is currently no solution to this ongoing issue.