Google is poisoning its news aggregation site with promiscuous adoption of "AI".
This means Google "News" (the quotes will henceforth be in any mention I make of the place) should no longer be trusted.
What a stupid move, plainly spawned by pure greed.
https://www.404media.co/google-news-is-boosting-garbage-ai-generated-articles/
Fine reporting from 404 Media's Joseph Cox.
Dan Gillmor /
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