Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines
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p5v
whattheheckheck
Is this like social Ground News?
p5v
More like what Nuzzel used to be back in the day: https://web.archive.org/web/20140321102815/http://nuzzel.com...
billyp-rva
I can see this being a net benefit if it's limited to re-writing clickbait headlines.
lapcat
> if it's limited to re-writing clickbait headlines
It's already not so limited:
"sometimes changing their meaning in the process."
"It almost sounds like we’re endorsing a product we do not recommend at all."
afavour
I hate clickbait headlines but I disagree. Let a site succeed or fail based on their choices. If they want to use clickbait headlines they won’t get my clicks.
Rewriting headlines feels like a fundamental break in the contract of a search engine.
billyp-rva
I mean HN modifies headlines all the time. Sometimes hours after the fact. News sites themselves A/B test headlines constantly. I don't really think there is any "contract" to speak of.
add-sub-mul-div
And that sucks. I don't want the paternalistic thought policing.
lazide
There is a massive difference between a specific website changing things (even an aggregator), and a search engine.
frereubu
This has been going on for at least three years, although perhaps they left more popular sites like The Verge alone. My wife's business rebranded three years ago and they kept the old brand as part of the title, presumably because there were lots of links pointing to it with the old title.
nullorigin
Whole google is AI now
arunakt
Hmm, needed with fancy AI ready information
blitzar
Its A1 all the way down.
“I figured that I could always fall back to those blue links to get a relatively unadulterated experience. Now, I have to wonder.”
When the last neutral layer goes, what's left is the people you chose to follow.
I've been sitting with that thought while building https://murmel.social