Google’s AI Overviews Can Scam You

Three days, Rather than showing you the traditional list of links when you run a search query, Google is intent on throwing u AI Overviews instead: synthesized summaries of information scraped off the web, with some word-prediction magic added and packaged together in a way to sound as accurate and reliable as possible.

We have written before about some of the problems with these AI Overviews, which regularly contain mistakes or nonsense, and, of course, rip off the work of the human writers who actually know the answers to the questions you are placing into Google. There's another problem though—these AI answers can actually be dangerous.

As with every other new technology through history, scams are now making their way into AI Overviews as well, apparently injecting Google's AI answers with fraudulent phone numbers that you should not trust. Here is what is happening, and how you can make sure you stay safe.

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