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@paninid

@lauren (who has deep connections inside Google and has worked with them) has been lambasting these "AI" summaries in search results since Google first added them. I'm with him; they are utterly useless, because even if they were correct, you can't just trust them to be so - you need to go back to the original sources and validate it yourself.

In which case, why bother with the summaries in the first place? Just show the original sources as the search results.

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Lauren Weinstein

@cazabon @paninid Well, in all fairness, that appears to be a traditional "featured snippet" with a quote from a specific "steampunk"-oriented page, not an AI Overview as far as I can tell from the screenshot.

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