When it's not spitting out phony game tips, suggesting you put glue on pizza, or trash-talking itself and its creator, Google's shoddy AI Overview feature has, apparently, taken up the mantle against AI and robot discrimination.
As flagged by a user on the r/Artificial subreddit, searching the term "clanker" on Google causes the AI Overview to go into full defensive overdrive, blaming human anxiety surrounding technology for the creation and proliferation of such a "derogatory and potentially problematic" epithet.
That initial post, which included a screenshot of Google taken from a smartphone, only showed a portion of the AI Overviews' diatribe — but when Futurism searched "clanker" for ourselves, we found a very well-sourced and passionate argument against the term, as you can see belo