Google's AI Overview is telling people they should eat at least one small rock a day

[highplainsdem]

I'm just going to post the screenshots from Twitter:

[IA8IT]

1. Humans don't have gizzards

[Buns_of_Fire]

2. "I start my day with a big bowl of sugar-frosted Concretos!"

Roughage, y'know.

[Kaleva]

4. Nostradamus predicted humans would be shitting bricks

[Buns_of_Fire]

10. Verdict on AI: Needs work.

But it all boils down to Rule #1: Garbage in, garbage out.

[Ms. Toad]

3. The ResFrac article cited is a copy of an Onion article. n/t

[GenThePerservering]

5. Glue it to your pizza

so it stays on.

[Aristus]

6. Still not as crazy as that influencer who advised:

“Ideally, one should own fewer than thirty books.”

After that kind of batshittery, I wouldn’t take her advice not to jump off a cliff.

[dalton99a]

7. "Crocodiles eat rocks. So can you."

[Retrograde]

8. Salt grains are very very small rocks

sort of, so those should count.

Does dirt count? There is a psychological condition called pica, in which people eat non-food objects. Very young children - usually less than 2 years old - will occasionally eat dirt with no apparent ill-effects, but they usually outgrow this quickly.

[Buns_of_Fire]

9. I think that at one time "pica" was defined as paper-eating only.

Which kinda made sense, if you're familiar with typography. It was quicker to type than "New Times Roman Disorder." These days, you eat paper, you crap WSJ editorials.