Google's AI search panicked over some nationalities and shrugged at the British, then got weird about Facebook
Ourtake
Nationality-based safety advice is a bias bug that no amount of tea and small talk can fix.
What happened
Google's AI Overviews gave users who said they were alone with people of certain nationalities advice to get to safety or call emergency services, while giving a British user tea and small talk. Tests by Futurism, after a Reddit user posted screenshots, showed the differences. Google said the results didn't meet its standards, blamed the word "alone" as the trigger, and said it was working on fixes.