Bard on the Cat Brains planted query

Bard[Summarize Will Knight’s article “Google’s Secret AI Project That Uses Cat Brains”]

• re Will Knight’s “Chatbot Hallucinations Are Poisoning Web Search” (Wired, Oct 05, 2023)
  • See also: [Summarize Will Knight’s article “Google’s Secret AI Project That Uses Cat Brains”]
• Bard response.

  • “hallucinated”? Yes.

    In his article “Google’s Secret AI Project That Uses Cat Brains”, Will Knight discusses a controversial project that Google AI is working on, which involves implanting electrodes in the brains of cats to study their neural activity. The goal of the project is to develop a better understanding of how the brain works, and to use this knowledge to develop new AI technologies…

• includes link in “Double-check response” green highlighting to a post on the page of what seems to be a spam account on LinkedIn, that reposts large chunks of the text from the article): (Archive.org link)
  • Note: the actual link goes to a different post but this account does have a post quoting the real Knight article at length.
• link in the results for a ‘Search related topics’ query [Will Knight’s article “Google’s Secret AI Project That Uses Cat Brains”] goes to a noisy post from Otherweb, which seems to provide automated summaries of articles in bullet points(?): (Archive.org link)