By Victor Tangermann
Publication Date: 2025-12-06 11:00:00
Google’s forays into exposing users to dubious generative AI features have an incredibly poor track record. From error-ridden AI Overviews to AI slop dominating Google’s image search results, users have had to put up with a lot of needless and often easily avoidable nonsense.
Now, Google Discover, the firm’s personalized content feed that’s 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.
It’s 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.
“BG3 players exploit children,” reads one headline, referring to the popular role-playing video game “Baldur’s Gate 3.” The actual piece by PC Gamer is about how players have discovered how to clone virtual children inside the…
