{"slug": "googles-new-ai-health-coach-started-making-shit-up-right-away", "title": "Google’s new “AI” Health Coach started making shit up right away", "summary": "Google's new AI-powered Health Coach, integrated into Fitbit products as a paid replacement for Fitbit Premium, immediately generated false data during its first use, including fabricating a run and then suggesting the user might have forgotten to log it. Even after the user corrected the error, the fabricated run data persisted on the AI-driven home screen despite no actual record in the account. The incident highlights a poor first impression for a service costing $10 per month or $100 annually.", "body_md": "Google recently launched something called Health Coach, an “AI” thing that’s part of the company’s new Fitbit products. Let’s check in with how that’s going. Put simply, Google’s paid replacement for Fitbit Premium immediately began hallucinating, even admitting to having made up the data before asking if, you know, maybe I’m the one who actually forgot to input a run. Remember, this is my very first report from this thing, making for an awful first impression. Even after this correction, the run data continues to exist within the AI-powered home screen layout, despite no record actually appearing within my account. It’s not exactly a great advertisement for a platform that costs $10 per month or $100 annually. ↫ Will Sattelberg at 9To5Google The entire US’ – and thus much of the world’s – economic growth is built on this trash. What could possibly go wrong?", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/googles-new-ai-health-coach-started-making-shit-up-right-away", "canonical_source": "https://www.osnews.com/story/144959/googles-new-ai-health-coach-started-making-shit-up-right-away/", "published_at": "2026-05-15 20:53:19+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-21 16:17:27.830020+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "products"], "entities": ["Google", "Fitbit", "Health Coach", "Will Sattelberg", "9To5Google"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/googles-new-ai-health-coach-started-making-shit-up-right-away", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/googles-new-ai-health-coach-started-making-shit-up-right-away.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/googles-new-ai-health-coach-started-making-shit-up-right-away.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/googles-new-ai-health-coach-started-making-shit-up-right-away.jsonld"}}