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Google AI Overviews wrong 1 in 10 times, raising risk of tens of millions of errors a day

Google’s AI Overviews, shown at the top of Search results, has been assessed at about 90 percent accuracy, but analysts warn the remaining error rate could translate into millions of incorrect answers an hour and tens of millions a day when applied to overall search traffic. The New York Times tested the feature using Oumi’s SimpleQA benchmark and found accuracy rose from about 85 percent under Gemini 2.5 to about 91 percent after Gemini 3.