"All the way back in 2019, an article in The Wall Street Journal warned readers that AI has learned to write fake news stories. One of the tools highlighted in the article was GPT-2, a precursor to what we now know as the game-changing tech that is ChatGPT. Fast forward to 2025, and we now have AI integrated directly within the Google Search experience. Now, when you look up something on Google Search, you will see an AI Overview at the top of the page."
"That solution is called Preferred Sources. It's a new feature that was launched in August 2025 that lets you pick where you want to find information on a certain topic. Here's how you can set it up: Type a query in Google Search and look it up. When the search results appear, scroll down till you see the Top Stories section."
"The rapid infusion of AI into digital tools over the past couple of years has dramatically changed the user experience, as well as behavior. And not all of it has yielded positive results. Google's AI Overviews are plagued by a well-known problem called hallucination, and, to a certain extent, by a lack of language nuance and reasoning. That explains why these AI"
AI has advanced from GPT-2 to systems integrated directly into Google Search that show AI Overviews atop results. These AI Overviews aim to save time by summarizing queries but have produced blatantly incorrect information and occasional errors as basic as the current year. Proliferation of AI-generated content farms worsens misinformation. Google introduced Preferred Sources in August 2025 to let users select and prioritize specific news outlets or websites for Top Stories results. Users add preferred outlets via a star icon beside Top Stories and reload results. Preferred Sources directs future searches to prioritize chosen sites, aiming to improve reliability.
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