Google AI Overviews Fuels Fake Goldmine Rumor About Surveillance Cameras

Google's AI Overview briefly claimed Flock cameras could hold 5 grams of gold and up to 23 pounds of copper—a claim traced to Futurism and later corrected—highlighting how AI-generated search results can spread sensational misinformation and adding to a pattern of hallucinations in Google's AI tools, including election-related errors.