I was an early beta tester of Google’s Bard AI, now known as Gemini. Back then I was excited about a chatbot that could provide concise results to my search engine questions. It was soon apparent that the majority of the answers Bard returned were incorrect by varying degrees. Fast forward a number of years and Gemini results aren’t much better. For example, I asked it for the standard tuning for a Puerto Rican Cuatro stringed instrument and the original result gave me the tuning for six strings even though the instrument has ten strings. I had to correct multiple times before it finally acknowledged my answer.

The amount of time and energy being wasted on this trash is infuriating.