Google's AI Summaries Are Lying—and Users Are Opting Out

The structural problem with Google AI Overviews is not that they hallucinate—every large language model does—it is that hallucinations are served at search scale, with the visual authority of a featured answer, to users who have no way to distinguish a fabricated summary from an accurate one. The Oumi analysis commissioned by The New York Times , a figure that makes the individual opt-out feel rational: if you know the feature is unreliable and a browser extension removes it in one click, the extension…