alt Hacker NewsPeople say this a lot, and part of me wants it to be true and hates this AI search stuff being shoved in my face, but this really hasn't been my experience.
Unless I'm searching for something very niche, I'm often quite surprised by how 'directionally right' Google's AI overview is, even if I retain a lot of the skepticism I had towards it.
I'm in the same place. I hate how AI is being shoved into everything... But I feel like I'm living in a completely different reality than the people who find the Google bot useless.
Though, most of the time I use it to find a reference and ignore the AI summary. Or to put a label on a topic I'm pretty sure exists but don't have a name for (e.g., "<insert problem statement here>. I'm pretty sure this is a known problem in <insert domain here>. Is there a name for it and what is the most recent literature?"