Google AI Overview confidently claims the current time is Monday, November 2, 2026
najoungkim · x · 2026-11-02
Linguistics researcher Najoung Kim caught Google AI Overview in another embarrassing failure: a screenshot shows it answering that the current time in Korea is "Monday, November 2, 2026, at 18:01"—while correctly noting KST is UTC+9 year-round with no daylight saving, mixing accurate trivia with a wildly wrong timestamp in one answer.
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