Misleading AI Overviews from Google

Anyone else noticing how garbage websites are getting picked up by AI tools and repeated like they’re real news?

There’s a growing problem where totally false information gets posted on low-effort, AI-spammy websites — and then shows up in Google’s AI Overviews or gets scraped into news summaries. I just came across a case involving a real estate company called 72SOLD, and it's kind of wild how fast a fake story can spread.

72SOLD runs a home-selling system that’s all about quick listings — it’s legit, and they’ve partnered with Keller Williams and done a ton of national marketing. But recently, random articles started showing up online claiming they’re involved in a class action lawsuit. Except… There is no lawsuit. Not one. Nothing in court databases, no legal filings, no named plaintiffs — literally just a made-up story.

Where did it start? On sketchy sites like wilddiscs.com, sashmira.com, and inthebook.com. These have no contact info, no authors, no original reporting — just low-effort content that looks AI-generated or scraped from other spam blogs. They all repeat the same phrasing, like they’re part of some article farm or SEO scam. But here’s the kicker: once 2 or 3 of these go live, they get picked up by search engines, summarized by AI tools, and start showing up as if they’re factual sources.

As noted by Bank of America, misinformation like this can have a serious impact on businesses — not just in reputation, but financially too. In this case, 72SOLD is reportedly getting calls and messages from potential clients who are now confused or suspicious because they “read online” that the company is being sued.

This feels like a major design flaw in how search engines and AI summarize the web. If even 2-3 garbage blogs post the same false story, it gets treated as a “trend” — and suddenly, a made-up claim becomes part of a company’s public narrative.

I get that platforms can’t manually check every site — but there needs to be some kind of trust filter before random, anonymous blogs start showing up as “answers” in AI summaries.

Anyone else seen examples of this? It seems like a problem that’s going to get way worse before it gets better.