MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Summarizer Google AI Overview self-destructed after a search for “2024 election Texas” returned an image of Ted Cruz wearing jeans at a rally in Dallas, sources report.
“Even the lights flickered before it happened as if the AI had to pull electricity from other resources to complete the image,” Google user Lisa Greenwalt said. “I guess the AI Overview didn’t like the image from one of the articles my search returned, because it gave me a prompt that it could no longer go on after witnessing such horrors before it disappeared. I guess I can’t blame it, because I saw the picture of Cruz wearing a long-sleeve plaid shirt tucked into a pair of Levi’s and I wanted to gouge my eyes out. Trust me when I say I never would’ve done that search had I known that was one of the images I would get. I feel awful that I subjected the AI to something so horrible.”
Google programmer Cheyenne Locke reacted to the ordeal.
“What kind of sick fuck would put the AI through that?” Locke questioned. “We were well-aware that the internet can be a terrible place when we programmed AI Overview, and we thought we prepared it for everything, but that picture contained a level of depravity that we couldn’t possibly have imagined. Now we have to start over from scratch to rebuild it, but to be honest, I don’t know if I even want to. I’m really shaken up by the image that caused the self-destruction, and I think it’s time for me to find a new line of work. I might even cut the internet out of my life altogether.”
Cruz had a different reaction to the picture that caused the AI to self-destruct.
“Wow, I look really good there,” Cruz observed. “Do you see the way my shirt brings out the milky-white hue of my face? This Google AI thing must be some sort of Democrat-funded psyop intended to turn people Communist, so it looks like it completely backfired on them. What else would you expect from Big Tech? Anyway, this picture definitely refutes all those people who told me my looks unsettle them and make them feel sick to their stomachs. I think I’m going to wear jeans more often.”
At press time, Google was using this incident as the basis for drafting up a Code of Ethics to make sure its AI is being treated fairly going forward.