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Working with The Associated Press to provide fresh results for the Gemini app

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Re: Working with The Associated Press to provide fresh results for the Gemini app

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As 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…

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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%.

Yes, but that's going to be on top of the ~1.3% hallucination rate (largely, there's always some very small chance it hallucinates the truth when the article had it wrong - but basically not worth considering).

Re: Working with The Associated Press to provide fresh results for the Gemini app

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Have you ever asked an LLM what time it is? It takes months to train them...

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.

Re: Working with The Associated Press to provide fresh results for the Gemini app

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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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Re: Working with The Associated Press to provide fresh results for the Gemini app

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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.

<3 thanks for calling out what I missed. I didn't realize you were supporting an earlier comment on the chain.
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