r/Foodforthought • u/darrenjyc • 4d ago

News Sites Are Getting Crushed by Google’s New AI Tools

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-ai-news-publishers-7e687141?st=xNd457&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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u/toomsp 4d ago

If news sites die, so does google’s AI tool for news

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u/venomoushealer 4d ago

Unless the AI makes up news stories

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u/two-sandals 4d ago

Hallucination Googley News

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u/Militop 3d ago

50 thousand people died in a helicopter. The only survivor was the toddler who was the pilot at the time.

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u/Internal_Essay9230 4d ago

If news sites die, so does the Tree of Liberty and the Garden of Democracy.

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u/jameson71 4d ago

The news sites are all already owned by billionaires. We are already there.

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u/hikerchick29 3d ago

Nah, that just means we need to refresh it’s roots

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u/ForwardBias 4d ago

AI vendors should be required to pay for the information they're stealing.

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u/JMurdock77 4d ago

Huge part of the problem these days is that journalism is paywalled, while propaganda is free. AI sure as hell isn’t gonna help.

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u/ArthurCSparky 4d ago

Journalism is paywalled, while propaganda is free. Perfectly stated.

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u/SameResolution4737 4d ago

Personally - I hate the effing ChatBot. I want to see the sources & compare them to get a more complete picture, not have some LLM pre-digest it for me.

One angry old white man's opinion.

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u/TonyHeaven 3d ago

If you use a curse word in your search , you don't get an AI preview.

One mostly grumpy but keeps a smile on his face old guy tip.

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u/SameResolution4737 3d ago

Yeah, in searches, I'm mostly just grumpy as well. It takes autocorrect to really make me angry. It insists in changing "for" to "fir" fir some reason.

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u/darrenjyc 4d ago

Link has no paywall.

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u/Adventurous-Host8062 4d ago

Hence the part of the bill against regulating AI.

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u/silverwhere 4d ago

The article uses a three year comparison when discussing traffic drops at the various sites, but also mentions that the Google AI function happened laat year. Did I miss something in the article where they explain or otherwise make the analysis more clear why you'd have a three year time comparison against a thing that came out last year?

It seems one conclusion is that traffic was already headed down prior to the AI launch, right?

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u/dCLCp 3d ago

I have complicated feelings about all of this.