Looking through some of my old photos, I found this photo of the poster used to advertise the first “Sovereignty Sunday” event held on January 16, 1977.
Unfortunately, I didn’t have a closeup of the poster that allowed the text to be read. So I did the natural thing. I Googled it, hoping to find that someone, somewhere, posted a better photo.
My search prompt was simple: “All Hawaii Stand Together 1977 poster.” I assumed it would be pretty straight forward.
Google now prefaces its search results with an AI summary, which in this case turned out to be totally, absurdly wrong.
It’s answer:
WTF?
It appears to be another example of an IA system unable to simply say, “sorry, I can’t find anything.” Instead, it made up an answer and presented it as a likely fact.
One more for my growing “Don’t relying on AI to get it right” file.
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It looks to me like Google’s AI algorithm has a marketing bias, directing you to a sales link on eBay as a default mode.
Sometimes, with AI, it’s better not to lead in with any comments at all. When I simply cut-and-pasted the photo into AI, and nothing more, it responded with “Overall, it looks like a pro-Hawaiian unity or sovereignty-themed poster, possibly from a historical or activist context, emphasizing solidarity among Hawaiians. If you want help enhancing, transcribing, or analyzing specific parts, tell me what you’d like to focus on.” – Not that helpful for someone that already knew what the poster was about, but, as it wasn’t really readable to begin with, it’s a much more accurate description, that would make it easier to drill down with other prompts later.