Google's AI Overviews can provide inaccurate guidance for video games, as demonstrated by incorrect tips and wrong source attributions for Trash Goblin. The feature sometimes suggests impossible actions, refers users to unrelated games, or points to incorrect sources. Large language models generate probable word sequences rather than verified facts, so AI responses may include mistakes and occasionally fabricate information. These errors can mislead players and frustrate indie developers who rely on accurate community knowledge. Players are advised to consult player communities or professionally written guides on gaming websites for reliable game help and troubleshooting.
AI Overviews offered incorrect information about the game to some players, as well as the crew at Spilt Milk Studios when they tested the responses. For instance, AI Overviews suggested that a player could damage a trinket when they were removing debris from it, which is not true. It also in some cases delivered the correct information, but pointed the user to an incorrect source.
We've seen many cases in which AI Overviews get information blatantly wrong. Like other large language models (LLMs), it guesses what the next word or words should be in its responses based on its training data. LLMs are about generating sequences of text; they're not designed to deliver facts (one reason why there's a disclaimer on AI Overviews that reads "AI responses may include mistakes"). They often just make stuff up.
If you're looking for help with a game, you're far better off finding a community of players you can chat to. You might be able to find a clear, helpful guide to the game in question on an actual video game website, written by a professional video game guide writer. If, that is, you can evade AI Overviews to get to thos
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