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I have very mixed feelings about Google's AI Overviews. On one hand, they sometimes provide tidbits of information without having to dig through web page after web page. On the other hand, as with all AIs (and some web pages), the information they provide can be wrong.
Also: How to get rid of AI Overviews in Google Search: 4 easy ways
Don't get me started on how much traffic they're sucking away from the sites whose data they're hoovering up without giving back any traffic. If you want to know more about that, I did a whole detailed deep dive on web scrapers that expands on the topic.
Even worse, AI detector company Originality.ai did a survey of AI overview responses and determined that 10.4% of them are derived from AI-generated internet slop. Additionally, 52% of the citations used in AI overviews came from sources outside the top 100 search results, pages that Google's own algorithm considers less authoritative.
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