Google’s generative AI search feature is here to stay, but will it actually impact how digital outlets do business? Earlier this summer, AI Overviews made headlines across the U.S. — mostly for the wrong reasons. The new Google search feature offers up AI-generated answers to queries, synthesizing sources on the web and filtering them through Google’s own large language model, Gemini. In the days after its U.S. roll out, journalists quickly took to social media to pan the product, screenshotting Overviews that were filled with factual inaccuracies and outright delusions ( among many fails , Google prompted users to run with scissors for cardio and bathe with a toaster to relieve stress). Overviews became the new face for rushed AI adoption and the ways generative technologies are being stretched […]
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