Pop quiz, hotshot: what was the headline on this article when you clicked on it? Was it classic PC Gamer style—witty, insightful, with the rare power of capturing the essence of a story with neither artifice nor evasion, and unintentionally but unmistakably implying the incredible mental powers and physical beauty of the writer? Or did it say something like "The headlines are all screwed"?
If the latter, bad luck sport: you may have fallen prey to Google's latest experiment with its Discover newsfeed, replacing human-created headlines with sometimes-meaningless AI slop. As spotted by The Verge, one of the corporation's latest AI adventures is cramming it into your news feed, taking headlines like ours and condensing them into something at best shorter and clickbait-ier, and at worst actively nonsensical.
