Google AI Overview finally admits that it's the year 2025

Google launched its AI Overview feature last year with the intention of saving users time by providing AI-generated summaries for their queries. Just one year later, they've introduced AI Mode, which is an expansion of the AI Overview feature and is said to be useful for queries that require deeper exploration and reasoning.

Despite that, the AI Overview feature has struggled multiple times, even when answering basic, fundamental queries. Recently, many users on X reported that when they asked Google, “Is it 2025?”, the AI Overview responded, “No, it's not 2025. The current year is 2024, according to a calendar.”

Interestingly, a user on Reddit mentioned that he was able to get the correct answer by adding the F-word at the end of the question.

Fortunately, it seems that Google has finally fixed this issue. Now, the AI Overview correctly states that the current year is 2025. Although Google hasn't commented on why this happened, one of their spokespersons told TechCrunch that they use examples like this to update their system so that such mistakes are not repeated.

AI Overview making such a blunder in answering a simple question is enough to make anyone believe that you shouldn't completely rely on the answers you get from AI Overview. If you’re not living in a cave, then you’d definitely know the answer to what year this is, so you can easily say that the Overview response is incorrect. But what if you search for something complex, the answer to which you aren't sure about?

In such cases, you won't be able to confirm whether the AI Overview answer is correct. That’s why it is very important to manually check the sources that Google’s AI Overview cites in its responses.

Interestingly, this isn’t the first time AI Overview has made such a big blunder. In May 2024, users reported that AI Overview was recommending they eat one small rock per day. There were also reports in the same month of users being advised to use glue to stick cheese to a pizza.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai mentioned at the I/O 2025 annual developer conference that AI Overview has over 1.5 billion monthly active users. If Google truly wants this number to increase rapidly, it needs to ensure that the AI Overview feature does not repeat such mistakes again.

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