"Google AI Overviews Spark Controversy with Misleading Information"

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Google's new AI-generated summaries feature, unveiled at the Google I/O developer conference, is under scrutiny for providing misleading and sometimes dangerous misinformation. Users have reported the AI citing dubious sources, plagiarizing text, and making factual errors. Google CEO Sundar Pichai acknowledged the issue of AI hallucination but did not provide a timeline for a solution. This is the second major AI controversy for Google this year, following issues with its Gemini AI model.
- Google's AI Overview Appears To Produce Misleading Answers Forbes
- Google Search AI can be helpful, just not with Overviews 9to5Google
- Google AI said to put glue in pizza, so I put glue in pizza Business Insider
- Google AI Overviews Search Errors Cause Furor Online The New York Times
- Google criticized as AI Overview makes obvious errors, such as saying former President Obama is Muslim CNBC
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