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Google's AI summary of search results hallucinates. You might like it, but you may also end up seeing, and believing in, something that just doesn't exist.

For example, it says there's a sequel to a Disney film called Encanto, and there just isn't. https://bsky.app/profile/jasonschreier.bsky.social/post/3lee...

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It also misidentified an article by Bernard Vonnegut about ice crystals as written by Kurt Vonnegut

Most if not all of the times it "hallucinated" it was paraphrasing the web.

And in doing that it's endorsing some random website that makes things up and elevating that garbage to be something users trust 'because it's on Google.'

Users will need to learn that Google is only as trustworthy as the crappy websites it uses for data that drives its AI. I'll leave it up to you to work out how that might impact Google's brand.

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