Submitted 4 days ago by brianpeiris@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crl95eg33k1o
Remember when companies like Google and Facebook got slapped with fines and fees from various countries for sumerizing news in news feeds on their sites.
News outlets were complaining about loss of ad revenue as a result of reduced traffic to their website directly.
Facebook even in some cases blocked news links in some countries from not showing on users feeds, so as to be compliant and not pay fees.
Guess AI summarising news is somehow completely different.
The difference is that the AI summaries blatantly make shit up and actively contribute to the spread of misinformation
Would be interesting to know which is actually worse for spread of misinformation, AI summaries, or “news” being shared on Facebook.
Cue the websites complaining in a couple years that even less people are visiting their pages, like they did when summarizing pages on social media was banned.
headset@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Man, this should be the shortest, easiest investigation ever. Here, let me help. Google does not offer any compensation to the websites they’re ripping off with their AI summaries.
While you are at it, consider also investigating bing and duck duck go.