Discover is the primary source of news for millions of people around the world, and Google is continuing to experiment with artificial intelligence on the platform. In a new test, AI is being used to rewrite headlines from publications, sometimes inaccurately.
Spotted by The Verge, the trial is showing select users AI-generated headlines without the original post’s title included until you click through. The AI-generated headlines shorten the description to four words with at least nine different instances appearing in the website’s research.
Some AI-generated rewrites have misunderstood the article and show false information in the replacement headline. An article from Ars Technica, titled “Valve’s Steam Machine looks like a console, but don’t expect it to be priced like one,” was rewritten by the AI as “Steam Machine price revealed.” Valve has yet to publicly comment on the price of its upcoming gadget.
And is more similar discrepancies. Some other examples took away the unique angle of a story they were recommending. An article written by The Verge on how Microsoft’s team is using AI was retitled to “Microsoft developers using AI,” losing the story’s original context.
A Google spokesperson told The Verge that only a select group of Discover users will see a “small UI experiment.” It said, “We 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.”
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