About a week after Google rolled out an expanded AI Mode that lets users ask follow-up questions inside the search box, social media has spent the week documenting how badly its AI can fumble basic spelling. In one viral post, a user asked how many L's are in “Google,” and the AI said two, then respelled the word as “Goolle.” Others got the AI to invent letters in “kangaroo” (three P's), “magnificently” (two O's), and “pneumatic” (a G), with one user saying short words like “town,” “sing,” and “bottle” came back misspelled about two-thirds of the time. A Google spokesperson said the spelling errors are unrelated to the new rollout, blaming generative AI mistakes the company is “working on making improvements” to, and added blue links still appear alongside AI responses and AI Mode is not the default.
