Google’s AI search is so broken it can ‘disregard’ what you’re looking for

Source: The Verge

Google’s AI Overviews are running into an interesting problem right now. As of this writing, if you search for the term “disregard,” instead of showing the usual AI-generated summary of search results, the AI Overview section instead includes a response like what you’d see from a more traditional AI chatbot, as called out by a post on X. To one Verge colleague searching “disregard”: Got it! Let me know if you need help with anything else. Nothing else followed in the AI Overview portion of the results page. To me, initially: No problem at all! How can I help you today? I searched for “disregard” again later and got another response … Read the full story at The Verge.