The AI clone wars have begun.
“Yup, Google gets to serve more ads, the scammer get paid, and users get to go fuck themselves. Everyone wins!” - Google
Oh god, of course they are. Haven’t checked on Microsoft News in a while, but the last time I did, they were promoting tons upon tons of transphobic propaganda.
Ironically, a good article… From a source I’ve started to trust.
Periodic reminder to please directly subscribe to quality news sources to help fund good journalism. Especially local newspapers which have been really struggling. They are often the only ones holding your local elected officials accountable or reporting on them to any degree.
The proverbial cat of SEO has long gotten out of the bag. Google isn’t actively choosing one site over another so much as being “victims” of their own derived search engine heuristics.
I very much think a lot of work needs to be put in to resolve this. But I don’t really think having one of the biggest companies on the planet be the gate keeper of what news you do and don’t get to see would.
