Working with The Associated Press to provide fresh results for the Gemini app
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#42Re: Working with The Associated Press to provide fresh results for the Gemini app
#43As someone who works in the news industry I find it pretty sad that we've just capitulated to big tech on this one. There are countless examples of AI summaries getting things catastrophically wrong, but I guess Google has long since decided that pushing AI was more important than accurate or relevant results, as can also be seen with their search results that simply omit parts of your query. I can only hope this dat…
Re: Working with The Associated Press to provide fresh results for the Gemini app
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1.3% isn't great. I'd rather just go, and pay, directly to trusted news sources. Everyone has different tolerance for falsehoods and priorities I guess.
What's the error rate for human journalists? Based on my experience, I'd guess it's much higher than 1.3%.
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#46Re: Working with The Associated Press to provide fresh results for the Gemini app
#47FYI If you want to turn this off in workspace you'll need to go here https://admin.google.com/ac/managedsettings/47208553126 and here https://admin.google.com/ac/managedsettings/793154499678 .
Re: Working with The Associated Press to provide fresh results for the Gemini app
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's the error rate for human journalists? Based on my experience, I'd guess it's much higher than 1.3%.
Except when that happens, a clarification is almost always added at the bottom of the article ("This article was amended on [date]. An earlier version said xxx" or some variation thereof). You're not gonna get a second push notification from an AI summary saying "Oopsies, the previous notification was wrong". Once it's out, it's out, and that sort of damage is difficult to repair.
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But it can be trained to access basic, limited APIs to get current information.
Yes, which is literally what I suggested it does in my original comment.