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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Google AI Overviews vs. "The Wizard of Oz"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lauren Weinstein)
Mon May 18 13:25:07 2026
Date: Mon, 18 May 2026 10:16:03 -0700
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Google AI Overviews vs. "The Wizard of Oz"
Google Gemini does it again. Moron. You know that when it can't get
trivial but widely known stuff like this right, imagine the important
things it's getting wrong!
Query: "or you hurt the spell"
AI Overview:
"That famous line comes from Miss Almira Gulch in the 1939 classic
The Wizard of Oz. [note, Google didn't bother to quote the title -L]
She says it to Dorothy while struggling to contain Toto in her basket,
muttering: 'These things must be done delicately, or you hurt the spell.'"
Of course the line has nothing to do with Gulch putting Toto in her basket,
it's spoken by The Wicked Witch of the West" to Dorothy regarding removing
her ruby slippers. Obviously Google AI is SO STUPID that it can't tell
the difference between the character of Gulch and her (Dorothy's dream)
incarnation as the Witch, and couldn't even separate the two completely
different scenes. Insanity.
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