Google Is Paying News Orgs to Publish AI-Generated Garbage

Google is not done with wreaking havoc with its AI yet.

On Tuesday, AdWeek reported that the company launched a program to pay news organizations to publish articles generated by a limitedly available beta version of an AI product from Google. The partnership, which is currently underway with several publishers, requires the orgs to publish a specific amount of AI-generated content for 12 months in exchange for a “five-figure sum annually.”

“The experimental tool is being responsibly designed to help small, local publishers produce high quality journalism using factual content from public data sources—like a local government’s public information office or health authority,” Google spokesperson Meghann Farnsworth said in a statement to AdWeek. “These tools are not intended to, and cannot, replace the essential role journalists have in reporting, creating and fact-checking their articles.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.