A study by analytics firm Semrush found that Reddit and Quora were the top two sources cited by Google in its AI Overviews.

Reddit gets top billing in Google's AI Overviews, but analysts warn that the traffic boom from logged-out users isn't turning ...

AI Overviews build answers by taking short passages from across the web. Semrush’s researchers explain that Reddit users ...

Google is very keen on its AI Overview feature, rolling it out across the world and spending a lot of effort to minimize embarrassing moments like supposedly telling people to eat rocks. But ...

Is Google always right? AI Overviews offer fast answers, but mistakes happen. Learn why it’s smart to fact-check what you see ...

But the AI feature’s woes could also be down to the source of data Google is choosing to summarize, such as satirical articles on the Onion and troll posts on social platforms like Reddit.

When asked to confirm the current year, Google’s AI-generated top result confidently answers, “No, it is not 2025.” ...

Third-party data strongly suggests Google has toned down Reddit’s influence on search results that use AI Overviews. This change comes from high-profile, outrageously terrible AI Overviews ...

But while AI Overview may get many answers right ... out that training the large language model on Reddit posts was a mistake. (Which Google is now paying the forum website to do for $60 million ...

Google had obviously ingested a Reddit comment that was meant as a ... glue" and other specific examples of odd or inappropriate AI Overview results (such as the recommendation that humans eat ...

Rather than being a complete hallucination, it looks like Google’s AI Overview tool is pulling the information from an actual, albeit dubious, source: an 11-year-old comment in a Reddit thread ...