'There are two 'P's in the word Google' says the company's upgraded AI Overview, as an old LLM issue rears its ugly head

A split image of Google's AI Overview results and Henry from Kingdom Come Deliverance 2.

As we march ever further into our bright AI future, it's somehow reassuring to know the tech can still stumble at the first hurdle. Or concerning, one of the two. Google Search users will have noticed that the AI Overview feature has been upgraded recently as part of the company's efforts to crowbar more AI into, well, everything.

What this means in practice is more conversational, LLM-generated responses to basic queries—but they still sometimes reveal more about the tech's capabilities than Google would like.