A Georgia man reportedly asked an AI chatbot how to keep his pizza from sliding off the roof of his car.
But what *is* real is somehow dumber: Google's AI Overviews told users to put glue on pizza to make the cheese stick, and to eat "at least one small rock per day" for minerals.
This is the technology that's supposedly replacing your job.
The glue thing came from a decade-old Reddit comment, which the AI scraped, believed, and served up like a doctor's note.
The rock thing appears to have roots in a satirical Onion article.
So to recap: our species spent trillions of dollars and burned a small continent's worth of electricity to build a machine that cannot tell a joke from a fact.
I know the average comment section is one bad take away from a public health crisis.
But there's a difference between some guy named xX_GlueGoblin_Xx posting nonsense at 3 a.m. and the world's biggest search engine repeating it to millions of people as gospel.
The other is now apparently a bullhorn for every dumb idea ever typed into a forum.
Tech executives keep telling us this is "the future" and that we just need to be patient while it "improves." Meanwhile, the rest of us are watching a $2 trillion industry get dunked on by a 2014 shitpost.
If I turned in work this bad, my boss wouldn't say "it's still learning." My boss would say "please clean out your desk, and also why is there glue on the pizza." The real comedy is the apologies.
Companies issue these solemn statements about "improving our systems" and "learning from this," as if the AI is a toddler who ate a crayon and not a product being shoved into every search bar, phone, and toaster on Earth.
We wanted our search results to be accurate and our phones to stop autocorrecting "duck." Instead we got a confident robot that will lie to your face with the grammar of a TED Talk.
And before the AI stans show up in my replies: yes, I know it's early.
But "it'll be great eventually" is what crypto bros said right before their JPEG monkeys went to zero.
At some point, "eventually" has to arrive, or you're just selling vibes and electricity bills.
People are actually using this stuff for real decisions—medical questions, legal advice, whether to put glue on their dinner.
A chatbot that can't distinguish a joke from a recipe is now a source of truth for millions.
So here's my verdict: the AI isn't the problem.
The problem is the companies that shipped it before it was ready, slapped a "beta" label on it, and called it a revolution.
Final Thoughts
If you're going to replace human judgment, you'd better be smarter than the average Reddit comment.