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

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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