@hausfath I am the first one to dunk on Google (and any person still using them as Search after 2019 is responsible for their own suffering), but I think this is more a Hanlon's Razor situation here.
Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and co are constantly tinkering their LLMs to give certain answers to certain questions, BUT with LLMs being an unwieldy stochastic monstrosity, my bet is that touching one query or adding one extra guardrail is inevitably messing up another one.
The problem seems not reproducible by most, or not tested thoroughly (how would it answer for all US elections in history?) and seeing this on Arstechnica and resonating on Mastodon seems excessive.
