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Google's AI is sometimes confused if 2027 is next year.

As noted on Bluesky, if you search “is it 2027 next year,” Google’s AI Overviews occasionally state that 2027 is two years from now. But this apparently isn’t even a new issue: when I got AI Overviews to mess up, it cited old Instagram and Reddit posts making fun of wrong responses to the same query.

Google's AI is sometimes confused if 2027 is next year.

TL;DR

  • Google's AI Overviews have incorrectly stated that 2027 is two years from now.
  • This error is not new, with AI Overviews referencing old posts mocking the same incorrect response.
  • Google's AI Overviews are not generating for the search query 'disregard.'