Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · Feb 24

I googled “Weather” and instead of the weather widget, Google gave me an AI summary of a week old weather report from an unknown location in Alabama.

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TheBossRoss 🧶 · Feb 24

I asked DuckDuckGo about the UK Home Secretary. Its AI offered this answer. 3 problems: - It wasn't Angela Rayner. - Angela Rayner has never been Home Sec. Ever. - The National Portrait Gallery seems an odd choice for a source.

Hank · Feb 24

If only we'd have managed to maintain a correlation of usefulness and user satisfaction with stock price.

metsfan · Feb 24

I got the weather widget but with weather for Northern California even though I'm in Southern California, and it shows my city right under the search bar.

Mary Helene Hall · Feb 24

good. cool. awesome. great.

Chris Merkel · Feb 24

and it took 3.2 tons of CO2 to provide that result

Curiosiate · Feb 24

We sacrifice water to these new "gods", for this shit.

Catherine the 🍓Redhead · Feb 24

What happens when you search temperature?

Chris The Hairy · Feb 24

Does the "fucking weather" hack still work?

Chips und Flips · Feb 24

Welcome to the future! 😎

Daniel Fosco · Feb 24

So many useful google search widgets are gone, it's so annoying. "10am in Amsterdam in NYC" felt like magic and now it just gives out a slow and wonky AI response.

Austin · Feb 24

I was looking up which NOAA satellites have been decommissioned and the AI summary kept referring to 2025 as sometime in the near future.

That Anonymous Coward · Feb 24

Its way more fun when you tell the assistant where home is then ask it what is the weather at home... and it uses your IP address and gives you random weather several states away.

Olman Feelyus · Feb 24

You just need to learn how to write better prompts.

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Olek · Feb 24

Haha, got more or less the same madness, googling 'us eastern time now'

Corduroy Wombat · Feb 24

Whether or not...

John Skiles Skinner · Feb 24

I often stop myself from posting screenshots of my worst AI google results but honestly thank you for doing this, because wow they are so bad