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Kevin Shay@kshay.com

This just isn’t what “recast” means but ok

Harsh but accurate

Kevin Shay@kshay.com

lol

I just wanted to know if I was too old to get a cushy fascism job, ended up researching glaciers

Kevin Shay@kshay.com

Curious about the specifics of DHS’s latest announcement, I turned to Google and… I guess I should have expected this

Kevin Shay@kshay.com

Hmm, AI Overview and I have somewhat different memories of this scene

Go ahead, define Wes Anderson without saying Wes Anderson. I’ll wait

Kevin Shay@kshay.com

…I guess

This is the sort of thing an actually useful AI would actually be useful for

Kevin Shay@kshay.com

Yep, I guess this statistic is just unknowable, thanks AI Overview

This is mostly accurate except it doesn’t get the pun but just swaps in the misspelled word. Plus it cites as a source the band that made this record:

Kevin Shay@kshay.com

About to make a dad joke, I googled to see just how unoriginal it was, and... no it isn’t. That isn’t true

I wish we were going to Candy Apple Planet

Kevin Shay@kshay.com

If you liked Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes… you’ll love Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Just retried this and got a totally different fabrication. In fact “Monday pop,” which I Googled after coming across it in a text from the 1800s, referred to the “Monday Popular Concerts” as was clear from the context (en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Dicti...)

Kevin Shay@kshay.com

See, I just don’t think this is true

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Kevin Shay@kshay.com

I’m curious about the relationship between President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Chief Justice Earl Warren, two well-known political figures. Let’s see what Google can tell us in response to a query for “fdr and earl warren” (without quotes)

3 Sept 2025

Kevin Shay@kshay.com

What if in fact I’m interested in a show literally titled “Killing It” and wondering if there will be a third season? (Spoiler: there will not.)

3 Nov 2025

Kevin Shay@kshay.com

Wanted to find out when to arrive at a certain location to watch the NYC Marathon. Let’s ask AI Overview! First attempt, looks pretty good, even breaks the info down into a handy table. Though it seems a bit suspect that the men will start at 9:05 and may arrive at 9:00. Maybe we should try again?

7 Jan

Kevin Shay@kshay.com

How do I break this gently to AI Overview

14 Apr

Here’s a subtle one: Jake Thackray does indeed have a song called “The Gravedigger” but it is not in fact a translation of Brassens’ “Le Fossoyeur”

29 Apr

Wow, I’ll be impressed if they can pull this off

14 July

I was looking for a video of The State’s sketch about the guy who discovers the word “and” and... this AI Overview neither describes that sketch nor the linked www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Kz..., which is indeed “a ridiculous, disjointed live broadcast” but not based on the word “and” at all

Hmm! How did this informal slang usage come about, I wonder? Why is it considered rude? [This was not in fact an attempt to search for “bs” but a botched URL autocomplete of “bsky.app”]

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16 Sept

Hmm, this doesn’t seem like it can be true. Can it?