AI Overviews made Google search a comic’s playground. Are things improving? From ABC News America:

In the wake of the unusual responses some social media users have reported, Google announced it had made “more than a dozen technical improvements” to AI Overviews. According to Liz Reid’s blog post, they include limiting the inclusion of user-generated content, as well as satirical or humorous webpages, in the data used to craft AI Overviews. Reid said Google also “launched additional triggering refinements to enhance our quality protections” regarding health content, and that it “aim[s] to not show AI Overviews for hard news topics, where freshness and factuality are important.”

The blog post also notes that “AI Overviews generally don’t ‘hallucinate’ or make things up in the ways that other LLM products might,” and that the incorrect answers are the result of “misinterpreting queries, misinterpreting a nuance of language on the web, or not having a lot of great information available.”

Misinterpreting language is something AI chatbots are very good at.

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