Google paused image generation in AI Overviews. Do not plan around single features

Google added image generation inside AI Overviews, users flagged accuracy problems, and Google paused the feature. The details are in this note on the pause.

The lesson is not about images. It is that any individual feature inside AI Overviews can appear, change, or vanish within a quarter. Building a content or optimisation plan around one specific feature is a way to waste a month.

Plan around the stable trend instead: informational demand is increasingly answered on the results page, and the durable goal is to be the source those answers trust, whatever shape the feature takes this month.