Google AI Overview made up an elaborate story about me

I really hope this stays up, despite the politics involvement to a degree. I think this is a situation that is a perfect example of how AI hallucinations/lack of accuracy could significantly impact our lives going forward. A very nuanced and serious topic with lots of back and forth being distilled down to headlines by any source, it is a terrifying reality. Especially if we aren't able to communicate how these tools work to the public. (if they even will care to learn it) At least when humans did this they knew at some level at least they skimmed the information on the person/topic.

I've had multiple people copy and paste AI conversations and results in GitHub issues, emails, etc., and there are I think a growing number of people who blindly trust the results of any of these models... including the 'results summary' posted at the top of Google search results.

Almost every summary I have read through contains at least one glaring mistake, but if it's something I know nothing about, I could see how easy it would be to just trust it, since 95% of it seems true/accurate.

Trust, but verify is all the more relevant today. Except I would discount the trust, even.

prompt> use javascript to convert a unix timestamp to a date in 'YYYY-MM-DD' format using Temporal

answer> Temporal.Instant.fromEpochSeconds(timestamp).toPlainDate()

Trust but verify?

  >Temporal.Instant.fromEpochSeconds(0).toPlainDate()
  Uncaught TypeError: Temporal.Instant.fromEpochSeconds is not a function

Hmm, docs [1] say it should be fromEpochMilliseconds(0). Let's try with that!

  Temporal.Instant.fromEpochMilliseconds(0).toPlainDate()
  Uncaught TypeError: Temporal.Instant.fromEpochMilliseconds(...).toPlainDate is not a function

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

"The docs" also say that it's only available in firefox. If you're going to use the docs, you should use the docs.