I don't have numbers, but my sense is that #Google AI Overviews are being ramped up again, and are showing up on lots more searches. Their quality still ranges from awful to, at best, mediocre. I find that I'm automatically skipping over them, because I simply can't trust any individual AI Overview answer to be accurate, especially on important matters.
In fact, this is my suggestion. Pretend they're not there. Skip over them and scroll down to the blue links as if the AI Overview answers didn't exist.
The new marching orders for deploying AI Overviews at Google appear to be "take risks and if users are given misinformation, oh well, them's the breaks. They'll get over it!"
The bottom line is that until such a time as Google is willing to take public responsibility for the veracity of their AI Overview answers, those answers should be considered untrustworthy as a whole.
Unfortunately, it's that simple.
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