Facepalm: For a short while, Google's AI Overviews handed the internet a financial case for vandalizing Flock's AI-powered license plate cameras, and it wasn't based on anything real. AI Overviews took the joke literally, and for a while, told anyone who asked exactly that. Rumors claiming the cameras are packed with large amounts of valuable precious metals – like ounces or grams of recoverable gold – come from internet memes and AI hallucinations, not facts." Google's earlier AI Overview answer lent the meme a veneer of credibility, repeating it almost verbatim and backing it with two weak sources. The second was an AI-generated Instagram post urging people to rip apart Flock cameras for scrap.