AI search answers are no substitute for good sources

If you have used Google lately and been lucky—or unlucky—enough to encounter an answer to your query rather than a bunch of links, you have been subjected to something called AI Overviews. This is a new core feature that Google has been rolling out, a move widely anticipated since the company's experiments with its LaMDA large language model in 2021, and since OpenAI's ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot rocketed to prominence in 2023.