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Google pulls AI overviews for some medical searches

Earlier this month, The Guardian published an investigation that showed Google was serving up misleading and outright false information via its AI overviews in response to certain medical inquiries. Now those results appear to have been removed. According to the original report: Image: BoliviaInteligente / Unsplash In one case that experts described as “really dangerous”,…

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Google’s AI Stumbles: Tech Giant Pulls Controversial Health Summaries After Dangerous Advice Surfaces

Introduction In a startling admission of algorithmic fallibility, Google has been forced to manually disable its flagship AI Overviews feature for a swath of medical queries. This emergency intervention follows a damning investigation revealing the system dispensed dangerously inaccurate health advice, from bizarre folk remedies to potentially life-threatening misinformation. The incident casts a harsh spotlight…

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