esben — 1/10/2026, 11:16:04 PM

Hot take: AI overview on Google is a net positive. It’s useful most of the time, especially for complex questions. Most people have a dislike for it because they remember when it sucked, but it’s honestly a good feature now.

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thrat:

I disagree because it takes advertising revenue and website visits from the original creators of the information

1/19/2026, 11:15:06 PM
94:

unfortunately i’m obligated to agree with whatever you say

1/13/2026, 12:54:54 AM
theglasspenguin:

it's more annoying for me personally, for example you google the name of a website and the overview pops up with a description that takes up a good chunk of the screen

1/11/2026, 2:46:01 AM
busybird15:

agree

1/11/2026, 1:55:20 AM
zagle1772:

in my experience (and mind you i do not mean to invalidate yours) most people who don't like AI don't like it on ideological grounds or environmental terms, not because they have a bias towards only remembering when it sucked (insert that one xkcd about apple maps)

this being said, i do mostly agree with the google AI overview being a good feature

1/11/2026, 1:43:29 AM
esben:

Yeah fair, I was talking about AI overview specifically though, which I think most people don’t like because it can get stuff wrong. I don’t think people hate AI overview for the same reasons as hating AI art.

1/11/2026, 11:47:02 AM
-gr:

I use duck duck go because they have a similar thing

Unfortunately I started relying on the Google one too much 😂

1/11/2026, 1:15:14 AM
luckythecat:

that’s not a hot take but it seems like it because nobody else is brave enough to say it

1/11/2026, 12:43:25 AM