#20 - Google’s AI Overviews: When Artificial Intelligence Becomes an Artificial Witness
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The Ministry of Truth would be proud. In a world where information flows through algorithmic channels with the authority of divine revelation, Google’s AI Overview has achieved something remarkable: it has begun rewriting aviation disasters in real-time, transforming Boeing crashes into Airbus incidents with the casual confidence of an African propaganda minister correcting historical records.
The recent Air India crash, a tragic Boeing aircraft incident, was promptly “corrected” by Google’s AI Overview system, which confidently informed internet users that the aircraft involved in the crush was actually an Airbus manufactured aeroplane. This was not a simple typo or data entry error—it was artificial intelligence hallucinating with such conviction that it might as well have been an eyewitness at the scene, clipboard in hand, taking notes for the official record.
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