A new feature on Google known as the AI Overview which uses the large language model developed by the firm specifically called Gemini AI was recently released, but users have expressed concern that most of the summaries that it provides contain wrong information. The feature, which consists in the generation of extensive resumes on the selected search topic, has provoked critical attention concerning the quality of AI content.
The new AI Over-view can be accessed by default on Google Search, and emerge when the search engine thinks it will find the user more useful information in the form of a summary than in the typical blue link. Nonetheless, the ability of users to comment on the feature, they complained that information given requires one to seek additional information as a way of contradiction, which negates the whole idea of summarized information.
Even though, Google introduced it to improve its search functions, some of the mistakes made in the decisions upset some users and make them search for how to eliminate the AI Overview and return to the basic option, which shows only the link and annotations.
For those who wish to view the original text content all the time and do not require the convenient one-stop AI Overview, Google has made it possible to disable it. It involves appear of a new engine in the google chrome option, changing the url to exclude the misleading summaries and making it as default search engine.
In detail, the process involves going to ‘Settings’ through Chrome’s three-bar emblem, selecting ‘Settings’ on the dropdown, and then ‘Search Engine’ on the settings menu to add a new unified search engine with a modified URL and set it as the default search engine. It remains for such searches to be implemented where, after a release in the Chrome address bar, it could replace the narrow AI Overview instead offering standard results.
The controversy that arose from the AI Overview feature demonstrates the struggles the tech companies encounter in creating and deploying artificial intelligence in a safe and accurate manner. As people keep experiencing low-quality articles created by AI but posted as the work of real humans, the issue of the trustworthiness of the information and the possibility of subsequent checks will remain in the field of public debate on the further use and integration of AI tools in platforms that are most actively used at the moment.
Some challenges that Google may have to face are as follows in order to ensure that consumer trust on any AI-related product offered by this company is not compromised. Many users as well as observers in the artificial intelligence industry will be waiting and analyzing how the company will respond and perhaps in improving the AI Overview feature.
