Google Is Paying News Outlets to Unleash an Avalanche of AI Slop
Google swears it’s not trying to kill journalism, but many of its latest projects seem geared toward that end. Google is paying five-figure sums to small publishers asking them to test out a generative AI platform geared toward newsrooms. News outlets are asked to publish three of these AI-assisted articles a day, in exchange for sending analytics and feedback to Google, according to a report from Adweek on Tuesday.No Google AI Search, I Don’t Need to Learn About the “Benefits of Slavery” “The experimental tool is being…