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Date : Fri Jan 24 2025 11:45:06

Google TV is testing AI news summaries on the home page, and I can't think of 
anything I want less

Date:
Fri, 24 Jan 2025 11:32:13 +0000

Description:
Google TV is experimenting with AI news on its TVs, and this isn't going to 
end well

FULL STORY
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briefs" will appear on the Google TV For You page Will recommend related 
videos of "top news stories" Only in the US, and only being tested with some 
users 

Google is experimenting with AI-powered news summaries and recommendations 
that you'll be able to see on your Google TV. This seems like a very bad 
idea. 

The feature, called News Briefs, was spotted by Android Authority on the 
Google support pages . It will use "Gemini models and human evaluation" to 
provide narrated overviews of top news stories and "related YouTube videos 
from trusted news sources." 

So far it's only being tested with selected users, and it's only being tested 
in the US. And I hope that at the end of the test, they kill it with fire. 
The Google TV platform already has Gemini built-in, but evidently we're doing 
to get more of it. (Image credit: Google) The problem with AI news is simple 

The thing about AI is that, for want of a better description, it's a massive 
miscommunication machine. To take a pretty innocuous example, Apple's AI 
headlines have been a disaster , and its AI summaries on my iPhone are often 
hilariously wrong. 

Again and again we see very clear evidence that AI can't be trusted 
currently. Sometimes it's funny  as the Associated Press found in the summer 
of 2024, Gemini will happily tell you that astronauts have played with cats 
on the moon  but sometimes it's much more serious; the same report notes that 
Google's AI shared the conspiracy theory that Barack Obama is muslim. 

The problem with AI is that what we're told is AI isn't. It's like a very 
high-powered autocorrect, a prediction machine, and when its data is bad  and 
it often is  then it produces bad information with great confidence. And 
online there's an entire ecosystem based on making bad information and 
feeding it into social media such as YouTube. 

Given YouTube's track record in recommendations  NBC News is one of many 
organizations that demonstrated a political and religious bias in the content 
being recommended to people, for example  having AI-powered news 
recommendations pushed to us even when we haven't asked to see new sounds 
terrifying. 

And on top of that, I get plenty of nightmarish news delivered to me all day, 
every day on my phone  perhaps if I've turned on my TV it's to escape, or be 
distracted, or entertained. Some people love to watch rolling news (or 
news-style) networks all day, but some of us use our TV to focus elsewhere. 

There's enough bad news in the world right now. I really hope Google TV isn't 
going to add more of it. You might also like The AI lie: how trillion-dollar 
hype is killing humanity AI will end aging and death, according to this 
professor ChatGPT Operator is the next step in letting AI organize your life



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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/televisions/google-tv-is-testing-ai-news-summaries-o
n-the-home-page-and-i-cant-think-of-anything-i-want-less


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