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The ultimate heist, subtle, addictive and frightening, summaries. Summaries of trending news stories like this one, a Futurism piece describing, with precision, how the heist is happening. "Wonderful" BRT doesn't do this. Colored type, pix with credits and links to the sources is an absolute because getting a Quisinart of the piece via AI in order for Google to basically control access to the news is disquieting to say the least. 

In the latest instance of Google discouraging users from clicking on links, the search giant has launched a new feature that uses AI to summarize trending news stories.

As first reported on by TechCrunch, the AI summaries are appearing for users in the US inside Google’s main mobile search apps on iOS and Android under the main Discover news feed. Tiny logos of publishers appear in the upper left-hand corner, haphazardly reminding users of where the information actually came from.

Underlining the janky nature of the tech, large text under the summary warns that it was “generated with AI, which can make mistakes,” seemingly in an attempt to preempt blowback of the type that Apple received after it rolled out a similar news-summarizing feature that turned out to hallucinate wild misinformation.

As follow up.

Image Credits: Google

Google Discover adds AI summaries, threatening publishers with further traffic declines.

As publishers fret about decreased traffic from Google, the search giant has begun rolling out AI summaries in Discover, the main news feed inside Google’s search app on iOS and Android. Now, instead of seeing a headline from a major publication, users will see multiple news publishers’ logos in the top-left corner, followed by an AI-generated summary that cites those sources.

The app warns that these summaries are generated with AI, “which can make mistakes.”

Image Credits: Google

The feature is not yet appearing for all news stories within the Google app. In tests, TechCrunch
was able to view the AI summaries firsthand across both iOS and Android apps in the U.S.

Reached for comment, a Google spokesperson confirmed this is not a test, but actually a U.S. launch.
The feature will appear on iOS and Android in the U.S., with a focus on trending lifestyle topics like sports
and entertainment. Google also noted the feature will make it easier for people to decide
what pages they want to visit.

95% chance people won't as people are lazy. One click instead of two always wins.

Just another way to get ever more information out of us rubes as it's all about the money.