this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2026
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Yeah, "AI" is just statistical analysis. There's more data in it's database that indicates the 2027 is not year and only a few days worth of data that indicates that it is. Since there's more data indicating 2027 is not next year, it chooses that as the correct answer.
LLMs are a useful tool if you know what it is, it's strengths and weaknesses. But it's not intelligent and doesn't understand how things work. But if you have some fuzzy data you want analyzed and validate the results, it can save some time to get to a starting point. It's kinda like wikipedia in a way, you get to a starting point faster, but have to take things with a grain of salt and put some effort make sure things are accurate.
Google pulled the AI overview from the search, but "is it 2027 next year ai overview" was a suggested search because this screenshot is making the rounds. The AI overview now has all the discussion of this error in it's data set and mentions it in it's reply but still fails.