Google's revolutionising the search engine game using AI... obviously. And that means it's giving out worse advice than you'll find a president espousing during a global pandemic. Okay, it wasn't suggesting you inject bleach, but just prior to a full launch as Google's new AI Overviews feature it was recommending users drink a couple of litres of specifically light-coloured urine.
Now called AI Overviews, the feature—which essentially seems to be replacing Featured Snippets at the top of a Google search page—is kicking off in the US first, with other territories"coming soon."it helped create, and not for the benefit of anyone apart from itself.
Now it's no longer an opt-in service and is going to just be part of Google whether we want it or not, how do we avoid getting the bad AI advice? Sadly there's no standard way to just disable AI Overviews specifically, but there are workarounds.has noted a way to force Google to always just show you web search results without any generative AI shenanigans getting involved.