[Edd314159]

To be clear, this is not Google getting it wrong. This is the AI-generated slop website getting it wrong, Google is just pulling an extract.

[threetonesun]

The extract being used for a search would fall in Google's domain, one would think.

[rhinoceraptor]

Their job is to surface useful search results at the top, and inaccurate or untrustworthy sources at the bottom. They used to be quite good at doing that.

[esafak]

Google's offense is not detecting and excluding it. Their spam filter is not working well.

[qsymmachus]

The end result is Google is getting it wrong, we just have two layers of machine slop at work

[101008]

This is wrong. It's Google getting it wrong, failing to parse/understand this Reddit comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41142610

[jeffbee]

In the intervening 15 minutes the Google featured snippet has changed, it is now the first paragraph of that page, instead of the paragraph that says he is 14 feet tall.

[eCa]

Of all the sources (and their reliability) available to Google, they chose the one thinking that fourteen feet is a reasonable length for a human.