"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. 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."
"Even worse, AI detector company 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. I consider these results credible because Originality is one of the five companies in my AI content detector tests that scored 100% for accuracy."
"So, not only are the AI overviews siphoning off traffic, they're doing so using more than dubious information from non-authoritative and potentially hallucinating AI sources. If you could make AI Overviews go away, would you? What if we could get into a time machine and travel back to 2022, before there was AI everything everywhere? What if we could just turn off those intrusive AI overviews Google seems insistent on plastering on top of all of our web searches?"
Google's AI Overviews can provide quick tidbits but can also be incorrect. The overviews divert traffic away from original websites while sometimes using dubious or AI-generated sources. A survey found that 10.4% of overview responses derived from AI-generated content and that 52% of citations came from sites outside Google's top 100 search results. Originality scored 100% in AI content detection tests, supporting the survey's credibility. Several AI content detectors can reliably identify AI text. A free Chrome extension is available to hide AI Overviews from search results.
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