A lot of the time it's a just a near-verbatim rephrasing of the top result, too.

I read them to get an idea of the quality that the AI produces, but mostly ignore the content after reading and click on to find actual sources, since I don't yet trust that content.

I was thinking that the drop in traffic to news sites is due to AI summaries, which might have the effect of filtering out people who are happy with a snippet. And was postulating that it would have two effects: improving the relevance of those who go to the news site (good) and feeding people with poor quality AI generated information (bad).

But then I tested out various news- ish search terms and never got an AI summary from Google. So I think the primary cause for a drop in traffic to news sites is probably not the AI summary itself.

You can help save the planet by asking AI less questions!

Yeah I have 0 trust in the responses I am getting so instead of verifying random claims I'm taking my own turns

But 95% of the time it doesn’t matter.