ESH, but his reaction was much worse than your original comment.
You are not wrong for not wanting him to read Google AI answers to you as if they are reliable sources. You had already told him you do not trust it and do not want it used that way. That is a reasonable preference, especially if you were asking him to look up actual numbers and not a summary box.
But how you said it probably did come out sharper than it needed to, and calling people clowns for absorbing bad information is not exactly going to make the conversation calmer. Your frustration makes sense. The delivery was not great.
That said, him yelling for ten minutes, saying you ruined the whole night, telling you you’ll lose all your friends, and going into “look what you made me do” territory is a much bigger problem. That is not a normal or proportionate response to being snapped at over Google AI.
The real issue is not Google AI. It is that a small correction turned into him unloading on you and making you responsible for his reaction.
A better version from your side would have been, “Please don’t use the AI answer. I’m asking for the actual source.” But a better version from his side would have been, “Okay, I’ll look for the real number.” Instead he escalated hard.
So yes, you could have said it more calmly. But no, you did not make him yell for ten minutes. That was his choice.
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