Kees van der Leun14h ago
Google's AI overviews give wrong answers 9% of the time (1.25 billion times a day), and in over half of the cases point to websites that don't actually support the answer given.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overviews-misinformation
Analysis Finds That Google’s AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization

A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.

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Show threadThomas Cloer

@Sustainable2050 Here is the original piece, not so much black-and-white:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/technology/google-ai-overviews-accuracy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZlA.EO4j.qmTIDhIBGKRh&smid=url-share

You are welcome.

How Accurate Are Google’s A.I. Overviews?

The company’s A.I.-generated answers look authoritative, but they draw on an array of sources, from trustworthy sites to Facebook posts.

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