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• Google's AI search results, known as AI Overviews, produced bizarre and inaccurate information, such as suggesting putting glue on pizza and eating rocks.
• The company quickly removed some of the inaccurate results, but the damage was already done, leading to memes and online spread of fake screenshots.
• Google's head of search, Liz Reid, attributed the inaccuracies to 'data voids' and unusual user queries, while defending AI results as generally leading to higher satisfaction with Search.
• Reid acknowledged the presence of nonsensical searches and fake screenshots online, emphasizing the challenges of managing AI-generated content on a large scale.