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Re: Google AI Overviews – Genuinely, Why?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40494188Why does Google (supposedly) think AI Overviews are a good feature?This might come across as a blatant attempt to bash Google's AI Overviews, but is actually a genuine question that I've been asking myself constantly over the past few days. Wanted to post here to see if the HN community had any takes/insight that I might be missing.My confusion comes from multiple places:1. Destroying the trustworthiness of the Google brand. It's hard for me to believe that Google would intentionally destroy decades of earned trustworthiness and goodwill toward its core product and money maker by pinning AI answers that will always inherently (due to the technology) have a chance of being completely false. Google search has become a meme, not just in tech circles but in the wider world. Every news publication seems to have reported on this. People that I've never heard talking about technology are aware of this. I simply can't wrap my head around the calculus of this - Sissie Hsiao (VP of Gemini/AssistMay 27, 2024 8:10 PM