[adithyareddy]

Only speaking for myself, but I use it a lot, and intentionally. Enough that I set up a search engine shortcut for it in my browser (g <space> type prompt here <enter>).

I much prefer it to having to click through links to find things. My last handful of searches were:

- Looking up open hours for a local store

- Defining words

- "postgres select where string has prefix"

- "cloudformation read parameter from ssm"

Things where I want to look up a fact, but want an answer right away without having to read through multiple pages.

[breezybottom]

That's crazy. Those AI overviews consistently tell me wrong information.

[adithyareddy]

I agree, the AI overview is definitely worse. I'm talking specifically about the AI mode search (at https://www.google.com/search?udm=50&aep=11). The AI overview seems to be summarizing the search results that were returned for your query already, while AI mode seems like it's doing its own searches based on your query.

I would definitely give it a shot if you haven't tried it before.

[jjulius]

I just gave it a shot and it hallucinated an off-trail, alpine scrambling route that, based on my knowledge of the area, would potentially get someone killed. I simply asked it if it could "talk to me about X route", and then it decided to make shit up instead of just regurgitating the information in the sources it cited.

It hallucinated how long a scree slope was, made up the existence of a "high rocky knoll", and insisted someone could traverse via a heather slope that's actually non-existent.