Google is reportedly paying independent news publications to share articles created by artificial intelligence (AI) as part of an unreleased AI model test.Â
The 12-month agreement involves publishers receiving a substantial monthly sum, totaling a significant five-figure amount annually.
As part of the arrangement, Google provides tools to news publications, allowing them to generate content using aggregated data from various sources, including government agencies and local news outlets.
However, publishers are required to compile a list of external websites relevant to their readership without obtaining consent or notifying these sources about the data scraping.
Remarkably, Google does not mandate articles to be marked as AI-generated. Instead, publishers are obligated to produce three articles on a daily basis, along with a weekly newsletter and a weekly marketing campaign.
The tool’s dashboard enables users to generate AI summaries of news stories from external websites.
These summaries can be edited and published after undergoing a human review.
Google has partially confirmed the report but has firmly denied using information from other outlets for their AI tools.
The controversial tool was recently launched, and the current publications utilizing it remain undisclosed.
