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
Fast and yummy is often less than healthy.Zinkevych/iStock via Getty ImagesIf 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...