Google AI Overviews strike again following the fatal Air India crash

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Jun 13, 2025 - 18:50
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Google AI Overviews strike again following the fatal Air India crash

Google announced AI Overviews coming to Google Search at I/O 2024.

Google said at I/O 2025 that AI Overviews are quite popular with users, but I’ve always found them to be the worst kind of AI product. Google is forcing AI results on as many Google Search queries as it can just because it can. It’s not because users want AI Overviews in search.

The separate AI Mode is generative AI in Google Search done the right way. It’s a separate tab or an intentional choice from the user to enhance their Search experience with a Gemini-powered chat.

The reason I don’t like the idea of AI Overviews being forced on users aggressively is their well-known problems with accuracy. We’ve learned the hard way that AI Overviews hallucinate badly. The glue-on-pizza incident won’t be forgotten anytime soon. While Google has improved AI Overviews, the AI-powered Search results still make mistakes.

The latest one concerns the fatal Air India crash from earlier this week. Some people who rushed to Google Search to find out what happened saw an AI Overview claiming that an Airbus operated by Air India crashed on Thursday, soon after takeoff.

Some AI Overviews even mentioned the type of plane, an Airbus A330-243. In reality, it was a Boeing 787.

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