02/17/2026
🚨 AI Safety PSA for Anyone Who Uses Google (so… just about everyone)
Google’s AI Overviews are showing up more and more in search results, and while they look authoritative, they can be dangerously wrong. In some cases, scammers are manipulating AI summaries to display fake customer support numbers, leading people straight into phishing or payment scams.
This isn’t fear-mongering — it’s a reminder that AI makes mistakes, and bad actors know how to exploit them.
A few quick, practical tips:
-Never trust an AI-generated phone number
-Always click through to the company’s actual website
-Verify any support number with a second search
-When in doubt, slow down — scammers rely on urgency
AI is great for brainstorming… but not for banking, billing, or anything involving your personal information.
If you want a clear breakdown of what's happening and how to protect yourself, this article explains it really well 👇
Beyond mistakes or nonsense, deliberately bad information being injected into AI search summaries is leading people down potentially harmful paths.