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

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• Google’s AI Overviews are running into an interesting problem right now.
• Earlier on Friday, if you searched for the term “disregard,” the AI Overview section would include a response like what you’d see from a more traditional AI chatbot instead of the typical AI summary, as spotted on X.