JemmyGoogle is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense
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kindredSo what’s happening here is Google is feeding headlines into a model with the instructions 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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Avid AmoebaI don’t think meaningful communication is a KPI they optinize for. More likely time spent in the Discover feed.
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.
MrNobodyIf hypothetically a false headline on a reputable site led to an incident involving injury or death, could Google be found liable in anyway?
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
coleEULAs are not legally enforceable anyways
theneverfoxThey’re becoming closer and closer to it though. Scary court decisions are being made, it won’t be long before someone tests it as a legal argument
Liability waivers don’t apply outside the US.
If hypotheticallywhen a false headline on a reputable site led to an incident involving injury or death,could Googleis anyone found liable in anyway?
rarely
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UnculturedSwineThey could hypothetically. Will they? Probably not.
Possibly. The BBC made a big row about Apple’s headlines: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2v778x85yo
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
it’s also de-listing a ton of websites and subpages of websites and continuing to scrape them with Gemini anyway
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.
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 to monetize it
Well, the loss of traffic is a knock-on effect of the misrepresentation. So is the fact that every other portal will try to sling shit at the ones affected by it.
Clickbait and ai bullshit from Google feed is pretty much all I’ve ever seen from them in the past year.
bthestYeah my Ublock Origin block filter is nearly 2000 lines. If it ever gets nuked on Firefox then I’m going full Kaczynski.
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
burritosdontexist2How else are we gonna carry around a pack full of skeleton parts for our necrarmy
MysticKetchupWow 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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JensSpahnpastaI 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.
Same. I don’t mind it if it was done by say you know a group of writers who can finetune 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.
The best time to quit Google was 10 years ago. The second best time is now.
Rss users rise up!
Another reason to stay away from Google Discover.
RSS is the way to get news from online newspapers. It avoids the bias and nonsence injected by AI and algorithms when getting news via social media and big techs platforms.
No, they wouldn’t. Those are the types of clickbait garbage headlines you use already.
https://archive.ph/aBMUA
google should experiment with sucking my ass
And they’ll get AIs to scrape that shit too. And train on it so they can spew higher order nonsense. And so on.