Google Caught Replacing News Headlines With AI-Generated Nonsense
Victor Tangermann
created: Dec. 6, 2025, 11 a.m. | updated: Dec. 16, 2025, 11:08 a.m.
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.
What are its misleading, four-word headlines doing better than the often carefully crafted ones written by human editors?
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