- The Google Play Store appears to be getting ready to include AI-generated review summaries in app listings.
- These would join the AI summaries in searches and the “App highlights” block we already have.
- Rather than just collating the most popular opinions expressed in reviews, this condenses them down into a single, new voice.
Google is on a bit of an AI kick right now, to put it mildly, finding reason to augment every nook of cranny of its software and services with (admittedly, often impressive) AI-powered functionality. The Play Store has been as much a target as any for these experiments, like with the App highlights feature we saw Google start playing around with several months back. For over a year now, Google’s been talking about using AI to summarize Play Store reviews, and after getting to see how that works in the app’s search mode, we’re now discovering how the next phase of those summaries could arrive.
When delivering Google Play’s most recent quarterly address, VP Sam Bright touched on the company’s progress with AI in the Play store, including the desire to get more of this AI-derived content in detailed app listings themselves. Sure enough, digging through Play Store version 42.1.21 we find new text strings for labeling information as “Summarized by Google AI.” And with the right flags enabled, we can get just such an AI-generated summary to appear at the top of user-written reviews: