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   "quote": "\"While exciting, this technology is rapidly evolving and improving, and may provide inaccurate or offensive information. AI Overviews can and will make mistakes.\"",
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   "quote": "\"A Pew Research Center report suggests users click traditional search result links just 8% of the time when an AI Overview is present, versus 15% of the time when there’s no AI Overview present. And users only click results within the AI Overview 1% of the time.\"",
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   "quote": "\"AI Overviews are a feature of Google search results, which means websites cannot directly opt out of them.\"",
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   "lineage": "AI-generated answer at the top of Search, with links"
  },
  "F50": {
   "source": "B6",
   "locus": "AI Overviews vs Google SGE",
   "quote": "\"SGE has since become AI Overviews\"",
   "claim": "SGE became AI Overviews",
   "modality": "documented",
   "kernel": false,
   "const": false,
   "lineage": "origin in SGE"
  },
  "F51": {
   "source": "B6",
   "locus": "How to access, customize or disable",
   "quote": "\"There's currently no default option to disable AI Overviews entirely.\"",
   "claim": "No default option to disable AIO entirely",
   "modality": "documented",
   "kernel": true,
   "const": false,
   "lineage": "no off switch; the Web filter"
  },
  "F52": {
   "source": "B6",
   "locus": "How to access, customize or disable",
   "quote": "\"If you prefer the usual list of links, you can switch to the Web tab at the top of the Google Search results page.\"",
   "claim": "Switch to the Web tab for links",
   "modality": "documented",
   "kernel": false,
   "const": false,
   "lineage": "no off switch; the Web filter"
  },
  "F53": {
   "source": "B6",
   "locus": "Rollout",
   "quote": "\"The rollout of Google AI Overviews hasn't been smooth sailing.\"",
   "claim": "The rollout hasn't been smooth",
   "modality": "interpretation",
   "kernel": false,
   "const": false,
   "lineage": "criticism: errors and hallucination"
  },
  "F54": {
   "source": "B6",
   "locus": "Rollout",
   "quote": "\"Google attributed the issues to its AI model misunderstanding queries or nuances in language\"",
   "claim": "Google attributed the issues to misunderstood queries",
   "modality": "attributed",
   "kernel": false,
   "const": false,
   "lineage": "criticism: errors and hallucination"
  },
  "F55": {
   "source": "B7",
   "locus": "What are AI Overviews?",
   "quote": "\"AI Overviews are Google's generative artificial intelligence summaries that appear prominently on search results, often before organic listings and sometimes even above ads.\"",
   "claim": "Generative summaries shown often before organic listings, sometimes above ads",
   "modality": "stipulation",
   "kernel": true,
   "const": false,
   "lineage": "AI-generated answer at the top of Search, with links"
  },
  "F56": {
   "source": "B7",
   "locus": "What are AI Overviews?",
   "quote": "\"Unlike featured snippets, which extract concise information from a single web page to answer a specific query, AI Overviews synthesize information from multiple sources to provide a more comprehensive summary.\"",
   "claim": "They synthesize multiple sources, unlike featured snippets",
   "modality": "interpretation",
   "kernel": false,
   "const": false,
   "lineage": "how it composes"
  },
  "F57": {
   "source": "B7",
   "locus": "What are AI Overviews?",
   "quote": "\"Unlike conversational AI models like ChatGPT, there is no input box below the AI Overview for follow-up questions.\"",
   "claim": "No input box for follow-ups (Oct 2025)",
   "modality": "documented",
   "kernel": false,
   "const": false,
   "lineage": "Show more and follow-ups into AI Mode"
  },
  "F58": {
   "source": "B7",
   "locus": "Opening",
   "quote": "\"In 2025, AIO reported having more than 2 billion users, according to Google.\"",
   "claim": "Over 2 billion users in 2025, according to Google",
   "modality": "attributed",
   "kernel": false,
   "const": false,
   "lineage": "scale of use"
  },
  "F59": {
   "source": "B7",
   "locus": "Impact on SEO",
   "quote": "\"we discuss that 93.8% of AI Overview citations were not from the top 10 organic results, according to a study by Authoritas.\"",
   "claim": "Authoritas: 93.8% of citations not from the top 10",
   "modality": "attributed",
   "kernel": false,
   "const": false,
   "lineage": "citations and organic rank"
  },
  "F60": {
   "source": "B7",
   "locus": "Crocodile effect",
   "quote": "\"Most AI Overview citations come from content already ranking highly in organic results.\"",
   "claim": "Most citations come from highly ranked content",
   "modality": "interpretation",
   "kernel": false,
   "const": false,
   "lineage": "citations and organic rank"
  },
  "F61": {
   "source": "B7",
   "locus": "Crocodile effect",
   "quote": "\"Ahrefs’ independent research across 300,000 keywords found that AI Overview presence correlates with a 34.5% reduction in click-through rate.\"",
   "claim": "Ahrefs: AIO presence correlates with a 34.5% CTR reduction",
   "modality": "attributed",
   "kernel": true,
   "const": false,
   "lineage": "traffic and clicks"
  },
  "F62": {
   "source": "B7",
   "locus": "How have AI Overviews evolved?",
   "quote": "\"In 2025, Google expanded its tests and availability of ads within AI overviews and began bringing ads to AI mode.\"",
   "claim": "Ads within AI Overviews expanded in 2025",
   "modality": "documented",
   "kernel": false,
   "const": false,
   "lineage": "ads in AI Overviews"
  },
  "F63": {
   "source": "B8",
   "locus": "card snippet",
   "quote": "\"For 25 years, a #1 ranking on Google guaranteed website traffic. Today, AI Overviews consume ...\"",
   "claim": "A Quora answer: a #1 ranking once guaranteed traffic; AIO now consumes it",
   "modality": "attributed",
   "kernel": true,
   "const": false,
   "lineage": "traffic and clicks"
  },
  "F64": {
   "source": "B9",
   "locus": "The Rundown",
   "quote": "\"Google AI Overviews are AI-generated answers at the top of Google Search results.\"",
   "claim": "AI-generated answers at the top of Search",
   "modality": "stipulation",
   "kernel": true,
   "const": false,
   "lineage": "AI-generated answer at the top of Search, with links"
  },
  "F65": {
   "source": "B9",
   "locus": "The Rundown",
   "quote": "\"AI Overviews were reported to be less likely to cite pages in Google’s top 10 organic results.\"",
   "claim": "Reported less likely to cite top-10 pages",
   "modality": "attributed",
   "kernel": false,
   "const": false,
   "lineage": "citations and organic rank"
  },
  "F66": {
   "source": "B9",
   "locus": "The Rundown",
   "quote": "\"Oversimplification and query misinterpretation can lead to inaccurate or misleading summaries.\"",
   "claim": "Oversimplification and misread queries can mislead",
   "modality": "interpretation",
   "kernel": false,
   "const": false,
   "lineage": "criticism: errors and hallucination"
  },
  "F67": {
   "source": "B9",
   "locus": "The Rundown",
   "quote": "\"Google positions AI Overviews as a way to drive qualified traffic to websites,\"",
   "claim": "Google positions AIO as driving qualified traffic",
   "modality": "attributed",
   "kernel": false,
   "const": false,
   "lineage": "AIO serves users and the web (the provider's account)"
  }
 }
}