No. Google’s AI Overviews feature is a form of search results, and as we note in this post, “[s]earch results are not a work.”
If you want to cite something from the AI Overviews feature, click through to the source and cite it instead. In the screenshot below, a search for “scare quotes MLA style,” each example of scare quotes is followed by a link icon directing you to the source.
For example, let’s say you wanted to quote the following example given: “Bob experienced the ‘catastrophe’ of having his tooth pulled.” Click through the the MLA Style Center post, evaluate the quote in its context, and cite the MLA Style Center post as your source.
Evaluating sources provided by the AI Overviews feature is especially important because what AI Overviews scrapes from the web may not actually be an example of what you’re searching for. In the screenshot above, the quote “I ‘liked’ her post on Facebook” is actually included in the source post as an example of when not to use scare quotes—another reason why relying on the AI Overviews feature for information is a dangerous practice. The results you get are also not stable, but subject to change from search to search.
As always, go to the source of information and evaluate it carefully.