Google's AI Overviews have seemingly made searching faster and more convenient (depending on who you ask) — but they've also created a new opportunity for scammers.
Rather than showing a list of links you evaluate yourself, AI Overviews present synthesized information as confident, authoritative fact. Most of the time that's fine. But when scammers deliberately plant false information into the sources AI scrapes, the results can be genuinely dangerous — and people are already falling victim to exactly this kind of fraud.
