Google says disabled source taps on Discover AI summaries were a bug in an experiment.

Google turned off the experiment and says the experience works as intended again.

The person who reported the test later said a different experiment replaced it.

Rajan Patel wrote on X that disabled source clicks on Google Discover AI summaries were a bug in an experiment that has been turned off.

Google says disabled source taps on Discover’s AI summary cards were “a bug in a Discover experiment,” and that it has turned the experiment off.

Rajan Patel, VP of Engineering for Search at Google, said so in a reply on X Monday evening. Damien Andell, who researches Google Discover, had reported the issue on Oct. 23.

Before the test, Andell wrote, tapping a summary’s sources opened a feed of articles from those sources, one path from an AI summary to the sites it cites.…