Google's AI told people Flock cameras were full of gold. They weren't.
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Facepalm: For a short while, Google's AI Overviews handed the internet a financial case for vandalizing Flock's AI-powered license plate cameras, and it wasn't based on anything real. Google has since walked the answer back, but the incident is a clean example of how quickly a widely used AI tool can turn a joke into something that looks like fact.
The story starts with a meme: privacy advocates joking online that Flock's surveillance cameras are secretly loaded with valuable metals, worth cracking open for scrap. AI Overviews took the joke literally, and for a while, told anyone who asked exactly that.
Until recently, anyone searching "how much gold does a Flock camera have" saw a confident answer: a "Flock safety camera contains about 1 to 5 grams of gold used in its...
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