That’s when Google will buy what ever is left of Condé Nast or Buzzfeed at bottom dollar and start using more AI to shit out “news”.
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ckmnstr@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Which is such a shortsighted move because as soon as all the news portals close shop Google’s scraper will have nothing relevant to summarize and is gonna be shit.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
they will be using that opportunity to make up the truth they want.
limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Nothing is stopping the AI summaries from using social media as the primary source
ckmnstr@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Can’t wait for Google to AI-summarize AI-generated social media posts for artificial Google users created to hike ad prices. It’s gonna be wild
limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
It’s going to get wild
atrielienz@lemmy.world 3 days ago
So social media are news outlets now. Good. Glad we cleared that up.
Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Seems inevitable 😮💨
atrielienz@lemmy.world 3 days ago
In the context of my original comment, social media companies like Meta and Reddit have fought tooth and nail to not be considered news networks or news outlets specifically because they don’t want to be beholden to the laws that regulate news outlets/networks. Jeopardizing their ineligibility to be sued for what users post (in the US) by going all in on AI LLM’s scrapers when those scrapers rely pretty heavily on news networks and other media to stay useful means they’ll starve themselves of AI scrapes content, and that they’ll potentially forfeit what protections against lawsuits they have. It’s a no win situation for them to continue to bet on AI which has already largely reached the limit of what it’s capable of in current iterations because of the lack of clean organic training data.