Hilarious gibberish or AI’s fatal flaw? Google Search confidently explains nonsense phrases (Update)

Update, April 24, 2025 (10:27 AM ET): Through a spokesperson, Google has provided the following statement on AI Overviews’ hallucination: When people do nonsensical or ‘false premise’ searches, our systems will try to find the most relevant results based on the limited web content available. This is true of Search overall, and in some cases, AI Overviews will also trigger in an effort to provide helpful context. AI Overviews are designed to show information backed up by top web results, and their high accuracy rate is on par with other Search features like Featured Snippets. Google also says that for some searches, there may not be a lot of relevant information available on the internet. Such cases are called “data voids,” which are a challenge for all search engines as a whole. The company has rolled out improvements to limit AI Overviews from appearing on such data voids, which would consequently prevent misleading, satirical, or otherwise unhelpful content from surfacing in AI Ove ... Read full article.