Mike Pepi

🦔 Google is testing AI-generated replacements for headlines and website titles in search results. The Verge noticed their headlines were being rewritten without their input. One example: "I used the 'cheat on everything' AI tool and it didn't help me cheat on anything" became "Cheat on everything AI tool." Google says the goal is to better match titles to user queries and facilitate engagement. They claim if this rolls out widely it won't use generative AI, though they didn't explain what other kind of AI would be rewriting headlines. Google Discover already does this and apparently it "performs well for user satisfaction." My Take Google is now rewriting other people's work and putting it in front of users as if that's what the publisher wrote. The headline is part of the article. It's an editorial choice that conveys tone, angle, and intent. When Google changes "Microsoft is rebranding Copilot in the most Microsoft way possible" to "Copilot Changes: Marketing Teams at it Again," they're not clarifying anything, they're replacing the author's voice with generic slop. The legal question here is interesting. Google has traditionally claimed protection as a platform that indexes and displays content rather than creating it. Once you start rewriting headlines, you're arguably developing content, which gets into Section 230 territory. Publishers whose work gets misrepresented might have defamation claims if an AI-rewritten headline changes the meaning of their article. Google is already driving less traffic to publishers and now they want to edit what little representation those publishers have left in search results. This feels like another step toward a web where Google just tells you what it thinks you should know instead of connecting you to sources. Hedgie🤗

I have waited years for someone to challenge this nonsense phrase on mainstream media. An indictment of the liberal PEP media that it took Tucker Carlson to do it. And he undeniably did it well.

“If your $500K engineer isn’t burning at least $250K in tokens, something is wrong.”

This AI text detector says Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was written by AI.

UPDATE: A 10-year-old boy is in moderate condition among the 20 people injured in Dimona following the latest missile attack by the Iranian regime. Tehran regime is deliberately targeting civilians, including children.