Cartoonist/author Martin Rowson of the Guardian asked Google's AI to name his wife. The results were hilarious.

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And this should be read by anyone who still thinks genAI is a good source of information. Though it'll probably be funniest for those who know better.

Anyway, he got nearly two dozen wrong answers - including information on nonexistent children belonging to him and the imaginary or real person Google AI named as his wife - before he got bored with the game.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/09/who-is-my-wife-martin-rowson-ai-technology

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Another search, another skipful of gibberish. “He’s been married to writer and journalist Ann Widdecombe (his ex-wife), Cathy Caldwell, and his long-term partner/wife, journalist and author, Polly Toynbee is a frequent figure alongside him in media, suggesting they are a prominent couple in UK literary/journalistic circles.”

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While my mythical marriage to Boris Johnson’s sister is obvious comedy gold (imagine that family Christmas!), for this nonsense to be the fruit of a garlanded, universal research tool used by billions – and for it to be repeatedly, serially wrong – is more than slightly disturbing.

We should all by now have worked out that AI is about as sentient as an abacus, and only truly mirrors the human mind in its capacity to lie to humans, telling them what it “thinks” they want to hear. It is also a universal truth that the world’s most dangerous people are idiots who think they are really, really clever (just look around and you’ll get the point). Add those two facts together and what on earth do you imagine we will end up with?

I wouldn’t ask AI that, it would probably say “banana bread”, then change its mind to, “Exterminate them all!”