Google News: The Best Place to Find AI-Generated Ripoffs of Real Journalism

The internet is quickly becoming a slurry of AI-generated garbage, and Google has decided to just let us all marinate in it. Anyone online can see that 404 Media Thursday.

WatchGoogle’s Antitrust Case Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to AI CCShare SubtitlesOffEnglishA Google spokesperson said it was “inaccurate” that these sites were prominently featured on Google News, in a statement to Gizmodo.“The sites in question only appeared for narrow queries,” said the spokesperson. However, the queries 404 Media references were not particularly narrow, including “star wars theory” and “midjourney.”AdvertisementYesterday, Gizmodo reported that the quality of Google search results was getting worse, AdvertisementA Google spokesperson told 404 Media that its search engine prioritizes “the quality of the content, rather than how it was produced.” One reason Google might be sitting on the fence here is that the company, itself, is a large player in the generative AI world with Ideally, Google would like its own AI to answer your queries. They’re experimenting with AdvertisementA new study found that a “shocking” amount of the internet is AI-translated gibberish, making it much harder for search engines and people to sort through the muck, according to Motherboard. Generative AI is highly susceptible to mistakes, and that’s crowding the internet with more unreliable information than ever.Google is in an uncomfortable position here, stuck between providing good, accurate results for its users and its own AI ambitions. Tech in general is having a power struggle with the news industry at the moment, as

Based on reporting by gizmodo.com.