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Updated · The Verge · May 27Google Replaces 'Disregard' AI Overview With Featured Snippet After 4-Day Failure
3 articles · Updated · The Verge · May 27
- Google on Wednesday showed a standard featured snippet for searches of “disregard,” replacing the AI Overview that had stopped appearing since Friday.
- The switch followed an instruction failure in which the word “disregard” caused AI Overviews to ignore prompts instead of generating a search summary.
- The current result pulls a dictionary-style definition from Vocabulary.com, signaling a temporary fallback to older search formatting for that query.
- Google has not indicated whether the AI Overview fix is permanent, and the report said the feature could return once the issue is resolved.
As AI Overviews siphon off 60% of clicks, is the social contract between Google and online publishers officially broken? Does the 'disregard' glitch reveal a fatal flaw in AI, where models cannot separate user questions from internal commands?