u/Additional_Art_1022

This may be a minor issue, but one thing I observed while using search engines in the last year is that those sources the AI overviews provide do not necessarily back up the answer provided in the overview.

Like, the overview could be roughly correct, but the sources either slightly deviate from the conclusion or they discuss a related but not the exact same topic. I also suspect that Google and others intentionally obscure the actual sources in order to keep the users on their site.

What I find particularly problematic is that I know for certain (from discussions I had) that those sources are what lends credibility to the AI overviews for many people. But the way they work they actually worsen the epistemic crisis created by AI, if anything