Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense

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• MrNobody@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If hypothetically a false headline on a reputable site led to an incident involving injury or death, could Google be found liable in anyway?

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  • Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No because on the google.com eula that you sign by having someone on your family ever Google something redeems them of any liability and gives them a right to sacrifice your first born to AI

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    • cole@lemdro.id ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      EULAs are not legally enforceable anyways

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    • Pamasich@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Liability waivers don't apply outside the US.

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  • zo0@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If hypothetically when a false headline on a reputable site led to an incident involving injury or death, could Google is anyone found liable in anyway?

    rarely

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  • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I doubt it.

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  • Prior_Industry@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are you cooking something up?

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  • UnculturedSwine@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They could hypothetically. Will they? Probably not.

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  • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Possibly. The BBC made a big row about Apple’s headlines: www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2v778x85yo

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• kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Thanks for the archive link.

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• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So what’s happening here is Google is feeding headlines into a model with the insurrection to generate a title of exactly 4 words.

  Every example is 4 words.

  Why they think 4 words is enough to communicate meaningfully, I do not know. The other thing is whether novel they’re shoving into their products for free is awful, hence the making things up and not knowing in the context of a video game exploit is not the same as the general use of the word.

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  • capuccino@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Trump cry like baby”. Huh.

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  • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t think meaningful communication is a KPI they optinize for. More likely time spent in the Discover feed.

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  • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    4 words fit better in the box or on the screen is what I assume.

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  • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Four words seems a fair metric for the shortest descriptive headline. I mean, can you beat “Foot Heads Arms Body”? The only shorter ones are “man bites dog”, “Dewey defeats Truman”, or something as simple as “WAR” when everyone already knows the details and this is just the official announcement.

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• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Clickbait and ai bullshit from Google feed is pretty much all I’ve ever seen from them in the past year.

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• nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  didn’t this happen already? the thing is generating AI responses instead of showing me the results first and then I’m not clicking on it because I’m a person

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  • fonix232@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Apple had to turn it off for their sunmary mode after backlash, even though the option always had the "these summaries are generated by AI and can be inaccurate" warnings placed prominently.

    Google doing this shit without warning or notice will get them in shit water. News portals and reporters are generally not too fond of their articles being completely misrepresented.

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    • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      it’s not just a matter of misrepresentation. it’s directing traffic away from the websites which are creating the content, and depriving them of every means that they have of monetizing it

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• bold_atlas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My Ublock Origin block filter is nearly 2000 lines.

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• MysticKetchup@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wow yet another example of forcing AI into something that the AI just makes worse. Must be a day that ends in Y

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  • isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It is Jeudi

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• JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I kind of like the idea of a system allowing me to automatically remove clickbait and sensationalism from headlines and replace it with a good summary. But I really hate how Google is pushing that without customization, without consent and in such a crappy state.

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  • bytesonbike@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Same. I don’t mind it if it was done by say you know a group of writers who can find craft it or people who just hate that s***. But but Google’s job is to get more clicks and get more eyeballs. So I don’t trust them to game their own systems.

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• Avicenna@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Great make every effort to suck the soul out of internet, of which there is already very little remaining. Then you can jack off to all the money you made while watching the internet that is %100 bots and racists

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  • lb_o@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We’re just here on Lemmy That part google is making will remain dead

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How else are we gonna carry around a pack full of skeleton parts for our necrarmy

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• alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  i thought they were already doing that? idk i assume a lot of the news that gets read is AI generated. if you have a good prompter you can easy crank out a hundred thousand years worth of fake headlines.

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  • Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They were generated by the news sites, not google itself

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