OMG.

1. Google has some bad summarization telling people that throwing batteries into the ocean is good.
2. News articles were written about this.
3. Bing's summarization interprets these articles as advice to ... throw batteries in the ocean!

🤦

(To clarify: this is classic Bing, not ChatGPT Bing.)

(Also note not everyone gets this result. Other queries that might work: "is throwing a battery in the ocean beneficial", "is throwing a battery in the ocean useful" without quotes)

@itamarst Search engine were never meant to answer questions. That was a mistake.
@Sylvhem @itamarst I blame Jeeves.
@mikej @Sylvhem @itamarst "BlameJeeves" would make a great domain name to host these kinds of AI fails.

@mikej @pseudonym @Sylvhem @itamarst @stephenfry

Ask and you shall receive...

https://blamejeeves.com/

Work in progress disclaimer, obviously...