A day can’t go by without Google doing something terrible. From donating to Trump, to censoring and altering YouTube videos, to using AI to summarize article...

Google just can’t stop being evil. Their latest ploy? Changing article headlines using AI. The results? Exactly as you’d expect.

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      20 hours ago

      it makes me wish that i had never bought into their “don’t be evil” motto decades ago.

  • afporritt1001@lemmy.today
    121·
    2 days ago

    I’m never getting Android for PC, not even in a virtual box. Thankfully I use a different search engine.

  • FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Is this a bad use of so-called AI? Yes. Is this illegal? I’m going to say no. One of the reasons why Google tried this is because in various markets they’ve been dragged to court or coerced to fund news initiatives because they used snippets from publishers in their search results word-for-word. A not insignificant number of publishers has been lobbying pretty hard against them for giving you their headline and a couple of phrases as a snippet. Those publishers are dumb if you ask me but they were able to bend laws to their will and limit the usefulness of the link, the cornerstone of the internet. So you can sort of understand their motivation why they would try this. And it was only a test from what I’ve heard. So bash Google for all the truly evil shit they’re up to. This issue is dumb but not really worth the outrage.