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Google brings the AI feature that told Americans to eat rocks to six more countries

AI Overviews are now available in India, Japan, Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil and the United Kingdom.

Google is expanding AI Overviews, the feature that summarizes answers to complex questions from the web and presents them at the top of traditional search results, to six more countries — India, Japan, Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil and the United Kingdom — from Thursday with support for local languages as well as English. To prevent a glue pizza situation in, say, Hindi or Japanese, Google plans to do language-specific testing of AI Overviews as well as red-teaming, a technique used by the tech industry to stress-test how their systems might behave under attack from bad actors. Search Labs users also get to play with a couple of additional features — the ability to “save” a specific AI Overview for future reference, as well as an option to simplify the language of an AI-generated answer, something that Google earlier this year.

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