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Google AI Overviews give ‘incredibly worrying’ prominence to suicide method

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Google queries about the death of former Love Island presenter Caroline Flack’s brother this week have prominently displayed details about his suicide in AI summaries at the top of search results pages.



Paul Flack died aged 55 after being found unresponsive at his home, six years after his sister took her own life.



Google searches for “Caroline Flack brother” over the past two days have resulted in his method of suicide being displayed in the first section of the AI Overv

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