Google’s AI search is so broken it can ‘disregard’ what you’re looking for

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Google's AI Overviews are running into an interesting problem right now. As of this writing, if you search for the term "disregard," instead of showing the usual AI-generated summary of search results, the AI Overview section instead includes a response like what you'd see from a more traditional AI chatbot, as called out by a post on X.

To one Verge colleague searching "disregard":

Got it! Let me know if you need help with anything else.

Nothing else followed in the AI Overview portion of the results page.

To me, initially:

No problem at all! How can I help you today?

I searched for "disregard" again later and got another response …

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