Dan Gillmor23h ago

Google's profound contempt for journalists is on display as it rewrites publications' headlines in search results, sometimes altering the meaning and intent of the original. https://www.theverge.com/tech/896490/google-replace-news-headlines-in-search-canary-coal-mine-experiment

The company calls it an "experiment" -- as if that makes it OK.

Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines

Google is beginning to replace news headlines in its search results with ones that are AI-generated. After AI clickbait nonsense in its Google Discover news feed, it’s starting to mess with headlines in the “10 blue links” too.

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@dangillmor Tampering with headlines is not the experiment. Google could do that internally. Seeing how much of the public will accept tampered headlines — that's the experiment.
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@lrhodes @dangillmor

Yeah, this. It's a social experiment to see how much pushback they get.