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14. The problem with AI overviews is that they're not reliable.

Wed Jun 10, 2026, 05:47 PM

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You can't count on any of it to be accurate. That may not always matter with casual searches, but for anything where accuracy is of paramount importance, you have to fact check every bit of it.

I found the AI overviews helpful at first, but if I'm looking for something citable to support a point I want to make (which is often the case), the overview often feels like an obstacle between me and the specific piece of information I'm looking for.

Ymmv, of course.

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