Google still recommends cola for your pizza

I admit that the question “how much glue to add to pizza” is unusual – but not that unusual, given the recent uproar surrounding cola pizza. As discovered by Colin McMillen on Bluesky, if you ask Google how much glue to add to your pizza, the right answer – none! – does not appear. Instead, it quotes our girl Katie suggesting you add an eighth of a cup. Oops!

You may be wondering if this is a fake screenshot. I asked myself this too. But On the edge confirmed by running our own query:

Just phenomenal stuff here, guys. Every time someone like me reports that Google’s AI is doing something wrong, we are training the AI ​​to be more wrong.

Those of us from one, ahem, certain age will remember the phenomenon of “Google Bombing;” the classic example was using the words “miserable failure” with a connection to George W. Bush. Done often enough, the result was that a Google search for “miserable failure” returned, well, George W. Bush. Google figured out how to put an end to this fun game sometime in the late 2000s, but with its new AI results, hey, the game is back! I’ll just write “miserable failure” in the same sentence as George W. Bush one more time for old times sake, and maybe in a day or two, you’ll get a great new AI research result, who knows!

By the way, this is not a universal problem. I asked Perplexidade.AI how much glue to put on pizza, and he told me: “I advise against putting glue on pizza. Cola is not an edible ingredient and consuming it can be toxic and harmful to your health.” Next, he explains how the “cola on pizza” meme originated.

ChatGPT also doesn’t recommend cola on pizza:

Naturally, this isn’t the only thing that’s wrong, although it’s probably the funniest. This other thing is really good: Google can no longer answer questions about its own products, thanks to its AI. Beira editor Richard Lawler asked how to enable screenshots in Chrome’s Incognito mode. Google’s AI gave two answers, both of which were wrong. In one of them, it suggests taking a screenshot on a regular Chrome tab.

On the other hand, Google’s AI insists that it’s simply not possible to take a screenshot in Chrome’s Incognito mode:

Unfortunately, by describing this problem, I’m pretty sure I’m now making it worse. Google will swallow my beautiful prose describing the problem and hand it back to the unwary as proof that anonymous Chrome screenshots are impossible and that the glue belongs in your pizza. What will mischievous bloggers do with this information, I wonder?