During Huge Demo, Google's AI Provides Idiotic Advice About Photography That Would Destroy Film

Over Exposed Google is hellbent on crowding out search results with AI-generated “advice” — which is often flawed, sometimes with devastating consequences. This week, during its splashy I/O conference, the company made yet another blunder. As The Verge reports, the tech giant showed off its Gemini AI offering suggestions for what to do when the lever on a manual film camera isn’t moving all the way — except that it made some genuinely horrible suggestions. Among Gemini’s dubious “things you can try,” was a highlighted bullet point to “open the back door” of the camera to gently remove the jammed film — which as any film photographer knows, would expose most if not the entire roll, thereby ruining any photos you may have taken so far. The blunder highlights glaring issues with the current crop of AI tools, which are still prone to confidently misleading users by hallucinating facts or wildly misinterpreting existing information on the web. Searching for Meaning It’s not even the first time Google has been caught showing its AI give misleading advice. Last year, Google’s chatbot, which was called Bard at the time, stated that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope took the first picture of an exoplanet, or a planet outside of our solar system — which is blatantly false. More recently, the company started testing its experimental AI search feature called AI Overviews — formerly known as Search Generative Experience, in yet another rebrand — on unsuspecting users who didn’t opt into the test. Unfortunately, the…During Huge Demo, Google's AI Provides Idiotic Advice About Photography That Would Destroy Film

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