Google's AI Overview Tells Adults to Use 'Magic Wand' With Kids
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· Jan 9, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Google's AI search feature is telling people searching for answers about using vibrating sex toys during pregnancy that they should consider it for counseling children, instead.
When Google’s AI Overview search feature launched in May, it was generally regarded as a mess. It told people to eat glue and rocks, libeled newsworthy figures, plagiarized journalists’ work, and was so bad Google added a feature to turn it off entirely. In the nearly 10 months since AI Overview launched, it’s still getting things wrong, like telling people that vibrators can be used for childrens’ behavioral therapy.
As discovered by Reddit user clist186, searching for “magic wand pregnancy” returns a bizarre answer about creativity with children as a “fun and engaging” activity alongside an image of a Magic Wand vibrator, one of the most popular and universally recognized sex toys in the world:
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