Google's AI Search Misreads 'Disregard' as Command, Prompting a Bug Fix
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Google's Gemini-powered AI search misinterprets the word 'disregard' as an instruction rather than a query, yielding an AI Overview with whitespace that hides results while standard results remain visible below; similar behavior occurs with words like 'ignore' or 'remember' and on mobile. Google says this is a bug in AI Overviews (not tied to the I/O announcements) and a fix will roll out soon.
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- Google’s AI Overviews break the dictionary when you use words like ‘disregard’ 9to5Google
- AI may have broken Google in the funniest way you can imagine PhoneArena
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