On YouTube, Google's AI replaces the titles and muddles everything.

What's gotten into Google? The web giant, engaged in a wild race to integrate AI everywhere despite common sense, is currently experimenting with a strange idea on the homepage of YouTube. Several users were surprised to see that the app had simply removed the video titles; instead, there is an AI-generated summary — not a summary of the title, but of the video content!

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It's already a problem in itself, but to get a rough idea of what the video is about, you have to expand each window and read the summary. It's already complicated enough to choose a video to watch, but if you also have to expand each window, you're just waiting forever on the app's home page. It's not that titles or thumbnails are usually explicit, they are sometimes more attention-grabbing than informative... But at least they come from the content creator.

At the moment, these summaries are generated in the YouTube app for Android, and they are far from being generalized. The platform regularly runs tests to measure the interest in a new feature before rolling it out more widely.

There is more than just YouTube where Google is experimenting with AI in a, let's say, creative way. In the US, the titles of articles highlighted in Discover are summarized by AI, which can lead to misunderstandings, or even outright misinformation. And these AI-generated titles are also tested directly in the search results!

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