"Recently, the Rowsons accidentally invented a new game that anyone can play at home. I have yet to come up with a world-beating name for it, so for now let's just call it How bloody stupid is AI? The playing of the game will change from player to player, depending on their circumstances but essentially the rules remain the same. Ask AI a simple question about yourself, and see just how wrong it gets it."
"In my case, all you need know is that while I, through the nature of my job, have a fairly large online presence, my partner (we married in 1987) has assiduously avoided having one at all. Which means that if you Google Martin Rowson wife in images, you may get a picture of me next to our then 14-year-old daughter or me with my friend and fellow cartoonist Steven Appleby, who happens to be trans but has kept her given first name."
"Imagine my delight when the first answer from Google search's AI overview was Jeanette Winterson. (To be clear, I swear on the lives of the entire population of Silicon Valley that the famous lesbian author categorically is not my wife.) But it got better and here comes the sublime beauty of the mesmeric imbecility of the Tool That Will Transform The World. Each time we repeated the question, the answer changed, then changed again."
A family turned repeated AI queries about Martin Rowson's wife into a game exposing frequent misidentifications by search AI. Rowson's visible online presence and his partner's absence online led image results to show Rowson with his daughter or with a fellow cartoonist, prompting false identity matches. Google Search's AI overview even suggested Jeanette Winterson at one point, and responses shifted across repeated queries, apparently influenced by phrasing and punctuation. The family found the shifting, incorrect answers amusing and saw them as demonstrations of AI limitations and the overconfidence of its creators.
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