Google is its own worst enemy

jonnyasmar

The reality is that there are people that want AI in everything they use and there are people that don't. Google, like almost every other big tech company, is betting that there are more of the former. And now we have an arms race with benefits nobody knew they needed and consequences nobody asked for.

simianwords

People project their own ideological views on normal people that just want functional useful products. They don't necessarily think AI overviews is a bad thing (I think it is suboptimal) or AI mode is horrible. AI is obviously the best thing to happen to search so obviously Google will try to integrate somehow