Google’s Bard Making Stuff Up When It Doesn’t Know the Answer

Turns out, not only should you not rely on AI generated responses for anything important, but Google’s Bard making stuff up is not at all uncommon. I was curious about a company by the name of Brookfield Corporation (ticker symbol BN) & one of its subsidiaries, Brookfield Property Partners LP. After Google’s Bard AI provided me with a quick overview, I decided to ask what the ticker symbol is for the subsidiary. Bard proceeded to just make one up (BPY), along with putting it randomly in the S&P 500.

A quick failed search, along with knowledge that the parent company is Canadian had me a little confused.

Me: So You Just Made That Up Completely? Bard: Yes, yes I did.

Unfortunately, there isn’t yet a setting to prevent Bard from just making up whatever it wants.

Conclusion: Google’s Bard Making Stuff Up

I guess the moral of this story is don’t trust AI just yet … just like you wouldn’t (…or shouldn’t) trust the first 1-3 random google results your (probably partially biased) search keywords return.