Google AI Overviews Illegal
Anyone else think placing AI Overviews on top of web search results should be illegal? It's like content creators are writing for Google for free these days.
Funny thing is, it's not even factual in many cases. A week ago, a friend showed me what an AI Overview had told him about the age of a popular athlete, saying he was 25, when he's actually 32. He had no reason to question it, and I had to nudge him to scroll down and verify. The top result after AIO was a website with the athlete's actual bio, which he never would have found on his own.
I feel like AI Overviews trains people to stop scrolling and just believe whatever google thinks is the truth. I'm surprised no anti-competition organisations have come out to stop Google from doing this. In my opinion, it should be at the bottom of the page or removed since they already have the "AI Mode" tab.