Google appears to reduce AI answers in People Also Ask

Google appears to have reduced AI-generated answers in People Also Ask results, based on recent testing across several queries.

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We previously covered a report showing Google’s People Also Ask answers are now nearly 100% AI-generated, but based on what I’m seeing today, that doesn’t appear to be fully accurate anymore, or at least not consistently. I checked AI Overviews across several searches “cushions,” “headphones,” “shoes,” “today’s news,” and others and couldn’t find a single AI-generated FAQ answer in People Also Ask for any of them.

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This is simply based on what I’m personally seeing today, so it’s possible Google tested a higher percentage of AI-generated answers previously and has since scaled it back, or this could just be inconsistent across different queries. Either way, for the searches I tried, I couldn’t find any AI-generated People Also Ask answers.

Have you checked your own People Also Ask results recently?

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