--- title: Why Google's AI can't spell Google (or anything else) description: Google's AI Overviews are making basic spelling errors — claiming 'Google' has two P's, misspelling 'journalism' and 'Trump' — because LLMs fundamentally don't... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/why-google-s-ai-can-t-spell-google-or-anything-else--jhcsvgpo5 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why Google's AI can't spell Google (or anything else) | daily.dev og:description: Google's AI Overviews are making basic spelling errors — claiming 'Google' has two P's, misspelling 'journalism' and 'Trump' — because LLMs fundamentally don't... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-google-s-ai-can-t-spell-google-or-anything-else--jhcsvgpo5 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/JhCsvgPo5.png og:image:alt: Why Google's AI can't spell Google (or anything else) og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- [TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc) [Read post](https://api.daily.dev/r/JhCsvgPo5) # [Why Google's AI can't spell Google (or anything else)](https://api.daily.dev/r/JhCsvgPo5 "Go to post") This title could be clearer and more informative.Try out Clickbait Shieldfor free (5 uses left this month). Google's AI Overviews are making basic spelling errors — claiming 'Google' has two P's, misspelling 'journalism' and 'Trump' — because LLMs fundamentally don't process text as letters and words. Built on transformer architectures, these models tokenize input into numerical encodings rather than reading character by character, making letter-counting and spelling inherently unreliable. Researchers acknowledge this is a structural limitation of current tokenization approaches with no clear fix on the horizon, and Google has confirmed it's working on the issue. 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