It should be opt-in.
UK proposes forcing Google to let publishers opt out of AI summaries
Submitted 3 weeks ago by okwithmydecay@leminal.space to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://apnews.com/article/google-uk-britain-tech-online-regulation-f2bf8545f3b987aa1900a829c0d01390
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Hirom@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Flamekebab@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Could we have the same for YouTube videos? I don’t want your stupid summaries.
napoleonsdumbcousin@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Until they get forced to implement an off-switch, you can block them with uBlock Origin in the meantime.
riskable@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Wrong way to handle AI summaries: Google crawls the article and presents it’s summary.
Right way to handle AI summaries: Your own browser uses a local AI model on your PC to generate the summary.
The first is easy to stop with legislation, the second is impossible to stop and yet, if you try you’re a fucking asshole trying to tell people what they can and cannot do with their own hardware. That’s straight up villain behavior.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Nice, but we should ALL (UK and beyond) be able to opt out of AI manipulation. Of course, the ideal would be, we’d have to opt in in the first place. And those below the age of majority cannot consent, so that would solve that problem.