"Google has indexed inaccurate infrastructure-as-code samples produced by Pulumi AI [...] and the rotten recipes are already appearing at the top of search results."
Pulumi AI is a chatbot that generates solutions to infrastructure-as-code problems.
"Software developers have found some of the resulting AI-authored documentation and code inaccurate or even non-functional."
But the worse part is, Google has indexed Pulumi AI's answers and is giving them to people in Google Search results.
It looks like "the curse of recursion" that I told you all about last June -- almost a year ago -- is becoming a reality in real life.
There's an old adage in the computer industry (dating all the way back to the 1950s, believe it or not): "Garbage in, garbage out."
Now we can call it "the curse of recursion" or "model collapse", though.
Google Search results polluted by buggy AI-written code frustrate coders
