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AI search answers are the fast food of your information diet – convenient and tasty, but no substitute for good nutrition

  • Written by Chirag Shah, Professor of Information Science, University of Washington
imageFast and yummy is often less than healthy.Zinkevych/iStock via Getty Images

If you have used Google lately and been lucky – or unlucky – enough to encounter an answer to your query rather than a bunch of links, you have been subjected to something called AI Overviews. This is a new core feature that Google has been rolling out, a move...

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