Earth to Gemini, Earth to Gemini...we have a faulty transmission...

Aaaaand, just like that, Google's Gemini loses the trust that I *want* to place in it...

I asked Google how many Americans use insulin. 

Old Google might have simply listed a clip from the American Diabetes Association as its top result. But of course, New Google had to drag its AI into the mix, and put Gemini's response on top. 

The problem is, that response is obviously, factually incorrect. It is false. 

I knew without checking that America has more than 300 million people, and that 8 million is nowhere close to being 11 percent of 300 million. So I clicked the link that Gemini CITES AS ITS SOURCE, and saw that 11 percent of Americans - 34 million - have diabetes, and that 8 million use insulin.

I remember when Google's algorithm worked in such a way that the top search result could be relied upon to be accurate. Then came sponsored searches, which meant that the top search result(s) had simply been paid for. Now, with Gemini, the top search result is whatever a really dumb AI cobbles together from reliable sources.

THIS IS NOT A GOOD LOOK, GOOGLE.

Maybe it's time to give DuckDuckGo a sustained trial run.