{"id":219435,"date":"2025-12-07T01:50:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T01:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/219435\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T01:50:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T01:50:18","slug":"google-caught-replacing-news-headlines-with-ai-generated-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/219435\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Caught Replacing News Headlines With AI-Generated Nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google\u2019s forays into exposing users to dubious generative AI features have an incredibly poor track record. From error-ridden AI Overviews<\/a> to AI slop dominating<\/a> Google\u2019s image search results, users have had to put up with a lot of needless and often easily avoidable nonsense.<\/p>\n

Now, Google Discover, the firm\u2019s personalized content feed that\u2019s heavily featured on Android phones, is showing users misleading and seemingly AI-generated headlines that replace the actual ones on articles, as The Verge reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s yet another annoying feature that not only will lead to plenty of confusion, but it also directly undermines the agency of online publications, highlighting a deteriorating relationship between Google and the news media<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cBG3 players exploit children,\u201d reads one headline, referring to the popular role-playing video game \u201cBaldur\u2019s Gate 3.\u201d The actual piece by PC Gamer<\/a> is about how players have discovered how to clone virtual children inside the popular game to break it \u2014 and isn\u2019t an instance of actual child labor, as the dumbed-down headline suggests.<\/p>\n

A separate four-word headline The Verge spotted claimed \u201cSteam Machine price revealed\u201d \u2014 even though game company Valve has yet to announce the price of its upcoming console. The original headline by Ars Technica<\/a> reads: \u201cValve\u2019s Steam Machine looks like a console, but don\u2019t expect it to be priced like one.\u201d <\/p>\n

Google acknowledges in a small notice below a short description of the content on Discover that some elements of its links are \u201cgenerated with AI, which can make mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n

But that leaves the question of why the company chose to add bungled headlines to its Discover feature in the first place. What are its misleading, four-word headlines doing better than the often carefully crafted ones written by human editors? Is it simply a matter of saving screen real estate?<\/p>\n

A<\/strong> Google spokesperson clarified to The Verge that \u201cthese screenshots show a small UI experiment for a subset of Discover users.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are testing a new design that changes the placement of existing headlines to make topic details easier to digest before they explore links from across the web,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

More on Google AI:<\/strong> Google\u2019s AI Is Actively Destroying the News Media<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s forays into exposing users to dubious generative AI features have an incredibly poor track record. From error-ridden…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,18,19,17,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-219435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115675779784265084","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}