...gave me incorrect info. Shop was crowded, I bought the size it recommended. I had a gut feeling this was wrong, once outside the shop with a better signal I checked, but searched for a website I knew to be reliable and then searched there. On this occasion the AI error cost me 10 minutes...

February 19, 2026 - 09:28 UTC

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...double checking and then getting into a queue to change the pattern. But for other AI prompted decisions the cost could be far worse. And what worries me is that in providing the wrong information AI had obviously bypassed a majority of sites offering correct info and chosen a wrong outlier
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When you next do a search on Google, put -AI at the end, and you will get your results without all the AI rubbish.
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