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Re:Why is Google cutting off Search from AI-free schools? He... by zzzeek on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:17PM (#50486579)
if you're giving it to kids where wrong information in the search summary could mislead them badly. The AI overviews, because they are highly optimized to be instantaenous and clearly draw from caches to some extent, often have really wrong information, like "opposite of correct" answers to things that are not as simple as cooking measurements.
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Re:Why is Google cutting off Search from AI-free schools? He... by alex43578 on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:41PM (#50486966)
But non-AI search results are no better. It’s easy to get opposite of correct answers via websites too. If it was a choice between looking it up in an encyclopedia and AI summaries, I’d get it, but there’s plenty of flat earth websites out there.
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Re:Why is Google cutting off Search from AI-free schools? He... by zzzeek on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:05PM (#50489627)
a plain search result gives you a lot of hits on a lot of sites and you can choose from them, where you then have to read each one to see if it's correctly applicable to what you asked. a wrong "AI summary" result OTOH is a flat out factual error that claims to answer the search query exactly.
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