Is AI Search a Medical Misinformation Disaster?

Last month when Google introduced its new AI search tool, called AI Overviews, the company seemed confident that it had tested the tool sufficiently, noting in the announcement that “people have already used AI Overviews billions of times through our experiment in Search Labs.” The tool doesn’t just return links to web pages, as in a typical Google search, but returns an answer that it has generated based on various sources, which it links to below the answer. But …

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