Google is paying small news outlets to use an AI article writing tool.

Google is paying small news outlets to use an AI article writing tool.

Under the agreement, publishers produce three articles a day, one newsletter a week and one marketing campaign a month using AI. In exchange, outlets get “a five-figure sum” over the course of 12 months.

First off, that figure seems like a steal for Google. And the service relies on articles from other publishers — who reportedly haven’t consented to their work being used:

To produce articles, publishers first compile a list of external websites that regularly produce news and reports relevant to their readership. ...

When any of these indexed websites produce a new article ... the publisher can then apply the gen AI tool to summarize the article, altering the language and style of the report to read like a news story. 

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