Google Pulls AI Health Summaries After Harmful Misinformation Scandal

• Google has removed AI-powered health summaries after an investigation by The Guardian found they provided harmful and misleading information.
• The AI Overviews, powered by Gemini AI, gave inaccurate information regarding liver function tests, potentially leading patients to neglect serious health issues.
• Experts from British Liver Trust expressed concern that slight variations in search queries still yield misleading AI Overviews.
• Google stated it makes broad improvements when AI Overviews miss context and takes action under its policies.
• Separately, Google, OpenAI, and Perplexity are offering free AI services in India to gather multilingual training data, leading to a surge in users.

Why It Matters: Google removed AI health summaries due to misinformation, highlighting risks of AI in critical health information.