AI Slops & AI Fails

Screenshot of a Google AI overview stating that it is currently Autumn in September 2025, while also claiming Autumn begins on September 22, 2025.
03 September 2025

Is it Autumn yet?

This screenshot from 1 September 2025 shows Google's AI overview confidently declaring that Autumn already began on September 22. The AI model correctly invokes the meteorological definition of the season but muddles it with the astronomical one. The reader is left with a kind of Schrödinger's Autumn.