"Dangerous and Alarming" - it tough; healthcare is needs disruption but unlike many places to target for disruption, the risk is life and death. It strikes me that healthcare is a space to focus on human in the loop applications and massively increasing the productivity of humans, before replacing them... https://deadstack.net/cluster/google-removes-ai-overviews-fo...

Ars rips of this original reporting, but makes it worse by leaving out the word "some" from the title.

‘Dangerous and alarming’: Google removes some of its AI summaries after users’ health put at risk: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/11/google-ai...

Let me guess ... it diagnosed people with ligma?

chatGPT told me, I am the healthiest guy in the world, and I believe it

Good. I typed in a search for some medication I was taking and Google's "AI" summary was bordering on criminal. The WebMD site had the correct info, as did the manufacturer's website. Google hallucinated a bunch of stuff about it, and I knew then that they needed to put a stop to LLMs slopping about anything to do with health or medical info.