Google accidentally exposes AI prompts behind Merchant Center insights
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Google's Merchant Center briefly displayed the raw AI prompts and system instructions meant to stay hidden behind its insight summaries.
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SERoundtable reports that Google Merchant Center mistakenly surfaced the underlying prompts powering its insights reports, showing raw instructions like "thinking," "role," and "Formatting" instead of polished performance summaries. The glitch exposed the scaffolding of Google's generative AI system for product performance analysis, though the incident appears to have been a brief UI error rather than a deliberate disclosure.
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