Last week, a Result of research on the overview of the AI of Google I used one of my wired items in an unexpected way that makes me fear the future of journalism.
I expressed with the IA previews, the company New generative functionality AI Designed to meet online queries. I asked him several questions about subjects that I recently covered, so I was not shocked to see my article linked, like a footnote, at the bottom of the box containing the answer to my request. But I was caught up in how much the first paragraph of a Presentation of the AI drawn directly from my writing.
The following screen capture on the left comes from an interview that I carried out with one of the developers of anthropic products on the advice for Using the company’s Claude Chatbot of the company. The screenshot on the right is a part of the overview of the Google AI which answered a question about the use of the Anthropic chatbot. By reading the two paragraphs side by side, he seems to recall a class cheater who copied a response from my duties and barely took the trouble to change the phrasing.
Reece Rogers via Google
Without the enabled AI glimps, my article was often the star extract highlighted at the top of Google research, offering a clear link so that curious users can click when they were looking for advice on the Use of the Claude chatbot. During my first tests of Google’s new research experienceThe star extract with the article has always appeared for relevant requests, but it was pushed under the response to the overview of the AI which has drawn from my reports and inserted from it in a list with 10 elements chips.
In email exchanges and a telephone call, a Google spokesperson recognized that the summaries generated by AI could use parts of writing directly from web pages, but they defended the previews of the As a visible point to return to the original sources. Well, in my case, the first paragraph of the response is not directly attributed to me. Instead, my original article was one of the six highlight notes near the bottom of the result. With source links located so far, it is difficult to imagine a publisher receiving significant traffic in this situation.
“IA’s overviews will conceptually correspond to information that appears in the best web results, including that related to the overview,” a google spokesperson wrote in a declaration in Wired. “This information does not replace web content, but designed to help people understand what’s going on and click to find out more.” By looking at the choice of words and the overall structure of the overview of the AI in question, I do not agree with the characterization of Google according to which the result can be just a “conceptual correspondence” of my writing . It goes further. In addition, even if the Google developers did not intend that this functionality replaces the original work, the AI previews provide direct answers to the questions in a manner that buries the allocation and reduces the incentive to Users to click on source equipment.
“We see that the links included in AI’s overviews get more clicks than if the page had appeared as a traditional web list for this request,” said Google spokesperson. The impact of the AI function on click rates. higher.
While many AI proceedings are not resolved, a legal expert with whom I have spoken who specializes in the law on copyright was skeptical that I could win a hypothetical dispute. “I think you would not have a solid file for the violation of copyright,” explains Janet Fries, lawyer at Faegre Brinker Biddle & Reath. “The copyright law, generally, is careful not to hinder useful things and useful things.” His point of view has focused on the type of content in this specific example of original work, explaining that it is quite difficult to make an affirmation on educational writing or based on facts, like my advice column, by relation to more creative work, like poetry.
I am certainly not the first person to suggest focusing on your audience provided during the writing of Chatbot promotes, so I agree that the aspect based on the facts of my writing complicates the overall situation. It is difficult for me to imagine a world where Google arrives at this exact paragraph on the Chatbot of Claude in its overall view results of the AI without referring to my work first.