How trustworthy the ubiquitous AI Overview

Every question I pump into google recently has turned up an AI overview with totally inaccurate information

Unfortunately, you may already need to know the answer to what you are asking in order to spot you've been misinformed with a lot of twaddle...

A simple obvious example, AI synopsis about the series Professor T when asked why it ended so badly - AI got the main character's name wrong [confusing Tempest for Teerlinck] and total misinformation about 'his love interest'....AI basically told a completely different story [Belgian vs Ben Miller]....

Another simple example might be to ask it what is safe for pigs to eat...the AI overview is a conflicting mix of various accounts stolen from various unnamed sources and totally out of context...but if you didn't already know that, would you just 'believe' what is so-called safe and unsafe for them to eat...i.e. a load of misinformation denying your piggy friends lots of safe foods

Every question I asked was the same standard of twaddle, in any niche and if I didn't already know the answer, then it was tempting to 'trust' the AI overview - that makes no logical sense except that in everything google human nature will make compromises for convenience, and google knows that already....but all this is especially serious when it comes to health information...standards just as low there too...

I have been away some years with other projects so dunno yet what is being taught and discussed in here on AI...the whole online scene has changed so much, not sure it had to as I had a very successful 'dream site' the 'old' way but closed it for ethical reasons, the misinformation being spread in the health niche by all sides all of whom seek to keep control of information and make money, even before AI gets its mitts on it....and when lives depend on it...hm...not for me. I took a university course during covid arguing successfully against scientists spreading misinformation too, seems everyone is keen on misinformation no matter where these days....But looking forward to starting over [eventually] online and seeing what WA has to teach this time round in a totally new online world! I have noticed university courses still offering the 'old' stuff WA used to teach at incredible prices...

Mary