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News publishers call Google’s AI Mode ‘theft’
The trade association backing some of the biggest news publishers in the US slammed Google’s newly expanded AI Mode, which trades traditional search results for an AI chatbot-like interface. In a statement on Wednesday, the News/Media Alliance said the new feature is “depriving” publishers of both traffic and revenue. During Google I/O on Tuesday, the company announced that it’s expanding…
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Google rejected giving publishers more choice to opt out of AI Search
Google didn’t want to give publishers the choice to keep their content out of AI Search results because it’s “evolving into a space for monetisation.” That’s according to a newly disclosed internal document spotted by Bloomberg, which reveals that Google had discussed offering publishers more granular control over how website data would be used in AI Search features instead of…
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Why Did Big Publishers Stop Making Small Games?
Summary Many modern games are too big, leading to exorbitant costs and painfully long development times. A greater emphasis on mid-tier games with shorter release cycles leads to more releases and a healthier game economy. Big publishers can give small games the funds to flourish and explore imaginative concepts that might be limited by indie budgets, but would still cost…
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One of the world’s largest book publishers adds AI warnings to its books – Computerworld
To make generative AI tools (genAI) work as well as possible, tech companies have chosen to train their large language models (LLMs) on large amounts of text, even though doing so could run afoul of copyright laws. Most recently, book publisher Penguin Random House has chosen to include a warning in its books stating the content may not be used…
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