In most instances where I've seen it, it's on niche topics where a Reddit post may be the easiest place to find any relevant content.

I expect somewhere in the AI harness there's a branch that effectively mandates "You must always answer."

Which results in it grasping at Reddit comment straws.

And which, in typically modern Google fashion, nobody there gives a shit about fixing, because the PR made their top-level AI KPI go brr.

Google is increasingly proof that you can't run an effective scaled tech company without a Gates or Jobs who occasionally uses the fucking product themselves and descends with fiery vengeance on whatever team drifted too far from user alignment.