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TL;DR
- Google’s AI Overviews are still showing signs of “chattiness.”
- Instead of straight-up summarizing search results, the AI-generated responses may contain friendly remarks.
- While the current situation is borderline funny, it could have serious repercussions for people who develop emotions for AI.
At I/O this year, Google sold the vision of a new Search, one that offers hyperpersonalized responses and gets a host of AI additives. As Google moves on to eliminate the distinction between Search and Gemini, it wants vanilla responses to be flavored by more personalized AI responses. But some of those may not be to everyone’s taste, especially when they deter users from getting the results they want. And we’re seeing fresh examples of that in action.
Google Search’s AI Overviews are once again showing their buried chatbot traits. Just like last month, when we learned that AI Overviews were getting perplexed by words such as “ignore” or “remember,” they’re repeating a similar pattern with phrases.
