Back in the day, getting fooled by a fake cheat code from word of mouth or early web forums was almost a rite of passage for gamers.

It's been a long time since people were playing Pokemon Yellow and Final Fantasy for the first time, however, and AI has apparently taken over the role that used to be filled by your idiot brother.

As veteran gaming journalist Stephen Totilo reported in his Game File newsletter, Google's disastrous AI Overviews have been caught repeatedly giving terrible advice on "Trash Goblin," an indie game from the UK studio Spilt Milk, in which users play as a cute little goblin digging through trash to find shiny treasures that he cleans and sells in his shop.

As Totilo notes, the goblin cleans his wares by chiseling away at them, which players simulate by clicking w

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