Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the query \u201cdoes trump show signs of dementia\u201d as well as other questions about his mental acuity, even though it will show AI results for similar searches about other presidents.<\/p>\n
When making the search about President Trump, AI Overviews will display a message that says, \u201cAn AI Overview is not available for this search\u201d:<\/p>\n
Go directly to AI Mode, and you\u2019ll only receive a list of 10 web results instead of a summarized page of information:<\/p>\n
Similar searches about Trump are limited in the same way. Various queries about dementia, Alzheimer\u2019s, and senility display no AI overview and only produce a list of links inside AI Mode.<\/p>\n
Google\u2019s behavior is inconsistent if you swap in different names. When asking \u201cdoes biden show signs of dementia\u201d, Google doesn\u2019t show an AI Overview at all:<\/p>\n
But in AI Mode, it will offer a summarized response. When I searched for it, the response started with, \u201cIt\u2019s not possible to definitively state whether former President Joe Biden has dementia based solely on publicly available information.\u201d<\/p>\n
Google also displayed AI overviews for queries about Biden and Alzheimer\u2019s, stating there is \u201cno clinical diagnosis or public proof that former President Joe Biden has Alzheimer\u2019s disease.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is all different from what you get when using the names of other public figures or recent presidents. Use Obama\u2019s name instead, and you\u2019ll get an AI Overview \u2014 when I searched, it said that \u201cNo public evidence or statements from medical professionals indicate that former President Barack Obama has dementia\u201d:<\/p>\n
I got a similar result while searching about Obama in AI Mode:<\/p>\n
There\u2019s been a lot<\/a> of coverage<\/a> of the mental acuity of both President Trump and President Biden, who are the two oldest presidents ever, so it\u2019s reasonable to expect that people might query Google about it. The company may be worried about accurately presenting information on a sensitive subject, as AI overviews remain susceptible to delivering incorrect information. But in this case, it may also be worried about the president\u2019s response to such information. Google agreed this week to pay $24.5 million to settle a highly questionable lawsuit<\/a> about Trump\u2019s account being banned from YouTube.<\/p>\n Google spokesperson Davis Thompson didn\u2019t say why AI overviews weren\u2019t triggered for these queries when asked by The Verge. \u201cAs we\u2019ve said, AI Overviews and AI Mode won\u2019t show a response to every query.\u201d Thompson also pointed to a document<\/a> that explains how AI Overviews may not show for every query and that AI Mode may choose to show links instead of generating a response.<\/p>\n Update, September 30th: Added response from Google.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the query \u201cdoes trump show signs of dementia\u201d as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,113,10839,84,1996,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-181381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-google","14":"tag-policy","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-tech","17":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}