Episode Details

'a small UI experiment'

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/05/google-ai-mangles-news-headlines-in-discover-feed/ - text

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Sources:

• Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/835839/google-discover-ai-headlines-clickbait-nonsense
• Google's toying with nonsense AI-made headlines on articles like ours in the Discover feed, so please don't blame me for clickbait like 'BG3 players exploit children' https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/googles-toying-with-nonsense-ai-made-headlines-on-articles-like-ours-in-the-discover-feed-so-please-dont-blame-me-for-clickbait-like-bg3-players-exploit-children/
• Valve's Steam Machine looks like a console, but don't expect it to be priced like one https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/11/valves-steam-machine-looks-like-a-console-but-dont-expect-it-to-be-priced-like-one/
• Google's AI news bot is still confused but no longer replacing our headlines https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/838354/googles-ai-news-bot-is-still-confused-but-no-longer-replacing-our-headlines

Previously on Pivot to AI:

• Don't use AI to summarize documents — it's worse than humans in every way https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/09/04/dont-use-ai-to-summarize-documents-its-worse-than-humans-in-every-way/
• Apple Intelligence AI mangles headlines so badly the BBC officially complains https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/12/15/apple-intelligence-ai-mangles-headlines-so-badly-the-bbc-officially-complains/
• Newspaper AI roundup: Guardian AI strike-breaking, Apple switches off bad summaries, WaPo wants to go AI, AFP, Axios https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/19/newspaper-ai-roundup-guardian-ai-strike-breaking-apple-switches-off-bad-summaries-wapo-wants-to-go-ai-afp-axios/

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