Google scales back AI overviews after being trolled for showing nonsensical, misleading results

After reportedly misleading users with ‘wrong answers’ Google on Thursday said it was restricting its new AI-generated search results. News comes in that after the tool produced “odd, inaccurate or unhelpful” summaries that went viral on social media, Google will limit the use of AI overviews.

The company said on May 30, that the announcement comes after Google delivered several odd and inaccurate results to consumers.

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“The company would be scaling back the use of its newly implemented AI search tool, AI Overviews, and implementing additional guardrails to the technology after it was automatically rolled out to users across the U.S. a fortnight ago,” Liz Reid, Google’s head of search, explained in a blog post.