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Google's AI Is Actively Destroying the News Media


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Google's pivot to AI-powered search is proving disastrous for the digital news media landscape. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the company's latest tools, including its wildly hallucinating AI Overviews and chatbot-style AI Mode, are causing the amount of traffic being sent to publishers to plummet as users no longer feel the need to click through to find out more. It's an existential threat, especially for publications that primarily rely on ad impressions. publications have been hit

The article from Yahoo News discusses Google's AI tool, Genesis, which is designed to assist journalists in writing news articles. However, there are concerns that Genesis might be used to replace human journalists, potentially leading to job losses and a decline in the quality of news reporting. The tool has been pitched to major news organizations like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, with Google describing it as a helpful assistant rather than a replacement for human writers. Despite Google's assurances, there is skepticism about the tool's impact on the journalism industry, with fears that it could contribute to the spread of misinformation and diminish the role of professional journalists.

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