Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines

From The Verge:

Now, Google is beginning to replace news headlines in its search results with ones that are AI-generated. After doing something similar in its Google Discover news feed, it’s starting to mess with headlines in the traditional “10 blue links,” too. We’ve found multiple examples where Google replaced headlines we wrote with ones we did not, sometimes changing their meaning in the process.

This is pretty gross. AI tools have tons of really amazing applications. Rewriting people’s titles to ostensibly A/B test engagement ain’t one of them.

You really should be trying out Kagi, DuckDuckGo, or literally any other search provider.

Ok, now what?

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