I'm not replying to point that out, I think others have done a better job. It's mostly that this conversation made me think of this classic Babbage quote that I've always enjoyed.
"On two occasions I have been asked, – 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question"
I bet you think the news is accurate all other times. It’s called “Gell-Mann Amnesia”
The whole isn’t about generating news articles, it’s about getting the model up to date on facts so it can synthesize a newspaper for you. I’d say it’s a way to get journalists to be journalists again instead of clickbait composers - as long as the model doesn’t inject clickbait there itself. I don’t trust Google to not do it sometime, but they aren’t doing it now and the infrastructure is being made for others to consume when Gemini suffers from inevitable enshittification.
This isn't what I meant. I pay directly for subscriptions/donations to news organizations that employee journalists that do this original reporting. I don't want a middle man that just messes it up. This goes for LLMs and for free news sites that don't do much more than summarize original reporting. I've seen more than a few times where they inject opinions, mess up facts or put focus on what was originally a small side point in the article.
