Cats on the moon? Google’s AI tool is producing misleading responses that have experts worried

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at a Google I/O event in Mountain View, Calif., May 14, 2024. Bloopers – some funny, others disturbing – have been shared on social media since Google unleashed a makeover of its search page that frequently puts AI-generated summaries on top of search results. — AP

Ask Google if cats have been on the moon and it used to spit out a ranked list of websites so you could discover the answer for yourself.

Now it comes up with an instant answer generated by artificial intelligence – which may or may not be correct.