Google still recommends pizza glue

I admit that the question “how much glue to add to a pizza” is unusual – but not that unusual considering the recent fuss over glued pizza. As Colin McMillen pointed out in Bluesky, if you ask Google how much glue to add to a pizza, the correct answer is none! – does not appear. Instead, he quotes our girl Katie, who suggests you add an eighth of a cup. Oops!

You may be wondering if this is a counterfeit screenshot. I was wondering about that too. But Edge confirmed by running our own query:

Just phenomenal stuff, people. Every time someone like me reports something wrong with Google’s AI, we train it to make it happen make more mistakes.

Those of us, um, a certain age will remember the phenomenon “Google bombing;” a classic example was the utilize of the words “miserable failure” in reference to George W. Bush. Done often enough, a Google search for “miserable failure” returned, well, George W. Bush. In the late 21st century, Google figured out how to crush this fun game, but thanks to new AI results, hey, the game is back! I’ll just write “miserable failure” in the same sentence as George W. Bush for senior times sake, and maybe in a day or two you’ll get a great novel AI search result, who knows!

Contrary to appearances, this is not a universal problem. I asked Perplexity.AI how much glue to put on a pizza and I was told: “I strongly advise against putting glue on a pizza. Glue is not an edible ingredient and its consumption may be toxic and harmful to health.” He then explains how the “pizza glue” meme came about.

ChatGPT does not recommend pizza glue:

Of course, that’s not the only thing that goes wrong, although it’s probably the funniest. This second thing is pretty chilly though: Google can no longer answer questions about its own products because of artificial intelligence. Verge Editor Richard Lawler asked how to enable screenshots in Chrome browser incognito mode. Google’s AI gave two answers, both wrong. In one, he suggests taking a screenshot in a normal Chrome tab.

On the other hand, Google’s AI insists that taking a screenshot in Chrome’s incognito mode is simply not possible:

Unfortunately, by writing about this problem, I’m pretty sure I’m now making it worse. Google will swallow my great prose describing the problem and pass it on to the unwary as proof that screenshots in Chrome Incognito mode are impossible and that the glue belongs on your pizza. I wonder what mischievous bloggers will do with this information?