Google swears I’m not trying to kill journalism., but many of its latest projects seem to be geared towards that end. Google is paying small publishers five-figure sums to test its generative AI platform for newsrooms. News organizations are being asked to publish three of these AI-assisted articles a day in exchange for submitting analysis and feedback to Google. Report from Adweek on tuesday.
“Experimental tools are responsibly It’s designed to help small, local publishers produce high-quality journalism using factual content from publicly available data sources,” Google spokesperson Megan Farnsworth told Gizmodo. said in a statement. Google emphasizes that these tools do not replace the “important role of journalists.”
As the media industry faces layoffs, struggling news organizations are likely to jump at Google’s offer. Again, Google pays newsrooms to provide free content. This is very different from how newsrooms typically get stories, which is by paying journalists typically five-figure sums. Google’s undisclosed AI platform has been tested on a small scale, but it is said to require frequent use.
Google and the rest of the internet are slowly becoming filled with AI-generated slop. The researchers A ‘shocking’ amount of garbage on the web, 57.1%, is already translated by AI. Popular blogs like “The Hairpin” It is turning into an AI clickbait farm Pretending to be a famous brand. This is a side effect of the introduction of AI into everything, and Google is leading the charge.
According to Adweek, publishers should use generative AI platforms to create and publish three articles per day, one newsletter per week, and one marketing campaign per month. Google’s platform works by aggregating content from a human-curated list of her websites into a dashboard. With the click of a button, editors can use her Gen AI tool to create news articles from new posts on their dashboard. A human editor then edits the article for clarity before publishing.
Google is essentially showing media executives exactly how AI will replace entry-level journalists, and they’re paying them to use the demo. Google has done its best to make this easier for struggling media companies (which most of them are).
When using this tool, publishers reportedly do not need to label these articles as AI-generated. However, Google says the tool is not used to republish copyrighted works in other media.
Google came under fire for testing the next version Google Search without “News” tab last week.Also found in search engines More AI-generated content on Google Newsas 404 Media called in January.
Google has benefited greatly from journalism over the past 20 years, as news articles feed reliable information into search engines. The company is now trying to give something back by paying journalists and using AI to replace them.
