Google cites ‘data voids’ and ‘fake screenshots’ for AI Overviews fail, reveals new updates

A week after hundreds of users flagged issues with Google’s new AI Overviews for Search, the tech giant has revealed what went wrong. Google has cited ‘data voids’ and edge cases for its poor AI-generated search results. Last week, a few days after Google rolled out AI Overviews, many users reported that it was showing them incongruous summaries generated by AI for their search queries.

The feature, which is at present accessible only to users in the US, made headlines after it threw bizarre and unrelated AI overviews. According to Google, the key objective of the feature was to deliver a better search experience. However, the AI led to several strange results. Google was quick to acknowledge the issue and instantly removed some inaccurate AI results.