Why Google Search AI Overview is a Bad Idea | My Perspective 

That’s all it can do ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude … they’re all essentially souped up autocorrect/autocomplete models. They’re pretty good at putting words one after the other but they don’t have any inherent understanding of the information those sentences and paragraphs impart

I have received immense value from AI so far. It's all in how you prompt it.

When I am looking for phrasing variations or some translation tasks, I’ve found ChatGPT to be helpful but mostly when I ask for different versions of something so I can pick or hybridize the best one. However, I find that for analytical tasks or factual research AI can’t be trusted, from my experience (with detailed prompts, follow up corrections, breaking it down and building it up) the course corrections to drive it to a correct response take as long or longer than doing it myself. However, I agree with you that there are some valuable applications

That is a fair claim to make!

Yes, the barrier of entry of technology lowers. Overall, I think that’s a positive. However, I think that shoehorning AI features without rhyme or reason is a symptom of a problem with tech companies led by managerial consultant types instead of experienced and forward thinking engineers. It’s a different flavor of the “Boeing problem” in my view and it’s why social media sucks and most tech is underbaked and overhyped

haha we're in the same boat!

Well hopefully it added some perspective as to why AI Overviews are not a great idea.