People are already skipping search links in favour of AI summaries


In AI we trust: Just weeks since Google has rolled out AI-generated summaries at the top of search results, most users are now already ignoring the old list of links below. — Photo: Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/dpa

WASHINGTON: In recent months, millions of internet users around the world have noticed artificial intelligence (AI) overviews appearing at the top of pages following a Google search, be that through an address bar or by going via the search engine.

Although there is an easy way to hide AI summaries, most internet users aren't doing so. In fact, they are even skipping looking through the traditional search results that appear underneath the AI summary, going by findings published by the Pew Research Center.

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