Google's AI Insists That MJ Lenderman Has Won 14 Grammys

Google's "AI Overviews" feature, which appears unbidden at the top of regular Google searches, has been roundly mocked since its launch for providing terrible answers to factual queries. At first it recommended eating rocks and putting glue on pizza, and it's continued to struggle, making absurd declarations like that eggs melt in the microwave and that you can fit baby elephants in the palm of your hand. Now, AI Overviews is bestowing an up-and-coming young artist with a nonexistent Grammy Award. When you Google whether North Carolina-based indie rock sensation MJ Lenderman has won any Grammys, AI Overviews confidently — and incorrectly — claims that the 26-year-old basketball lover has won 14 of the gold gramophones. In reality, he's won zero. For anyone whose interest in the buzzy young artist has been piqued amid news that he's no longer going to tour with Wednesday, another North Carolina band fronted by his ex-girlfriend Karly Hartzman, that search result may mislead them into ... Read full article.