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Sunday, January 11, 2026

Mistakes in Google Medical Summaries

From Grauniad of the UK

I have used the Google AI summaries, to call them that, and, through cross-referencing the explanations and suggestions, have not found the summaries to be misleading or wrong. However, one has to be careful with those AI-generated search results: they can contain glaring mistakes, also in the medical field. This is what the article discusses. 

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Google has removed some of its artificial intelligence health summaries after a Guardian investigation found people were being put at risk of harm by false and misleading information.
The company has said its AI Overviews, which use generative AI to provide snapshots of essential information about a topic or question, are “helpful” and “reliable”.
But some of the summaries, which appear at the top of search results, served up inaccurate health information, putting users at risk of harm.

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