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Google News is sometimes boosting sites that rip-off other outlets by using AI to rapidly churn out content, 404 Media claims: From the report: Google told 404 Media that although it tries to address spam on Google News, the company ultimately does not focus on whether a news article was written by an AI or a human, opening the way for more AI-generated content making its way onto Google News. The presence of AI-generated content on Google News signals two things: first, the black box nature of Google News, with entry into Google News' rankings in the first place an opaque, but apparently gameable, system. Second, is how Google may not be ready for moderating its News service in the age of consumer-access AI, where essentially anyone is able to churn out a mass of content with little to no regard for its quality or originality. UPDATE: Engadget argues that "to find such stories required heavily manipulating the search results in Google News," noting that in the cited case, 404 Media's search parameters "are essentially set so that the original stories don't appear." Engadget got this rebuke from Google. "Claiming that these sites were featured prominently in Google News is not accurate - the sites in question only appeared for artificially narrow queries, including queries that explicitly filtered out the date of an original article. "We take the quality of our results extremely seriously and have clear policies against content created for the primary purpose of ranking well on News and we remove sites that violate it." Engadget then wrote, "We apologize for overstating the issue and are including a slightly modified version of the original story that has been corrected for accuracy, and we've updated the headline to make it more accurate."

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Google News is boosting sites that rip-off other outlets by using AI to rapidly churn out content, 404 Media has found. From the report: Google told 404 Media that although it tries to address spam on Google News, the company ultimately does not focus on whether a news article was written by an AI or a human, opening the way for more AI-generated content making its way onto Google News. The presence of AI-generated content on Google News signals two things: first, the black box nature of Google News, with entry into Google News' rankings in the first place an opaque, but apparently gameable, system. Second, is how Google may not be ready for moderating its News service in the age of consumer-access AI, where essentially anyone is able to churn out a mass of content with little to no regard for its quality or originality.

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EXCLUSIVE: Cox was one of several famous faces to join The House of St Barnabas in London 's trendy Soho district - a charitable venue staffed by those with experience of homelessness.

Lincolnshire Police's photo of a person covered head to toe in black and grey with only the bridge of their nose on show has left many people baffled.

Natalie McNeill, 44, was in her Scottish home with her two-year-old daughter Melanie when a fire broke out caused by a cheap tablet.

SF employees set sail on exclusive six-seater sea shuttle – the rest will have to stick to roads

San Francisco-based employees of financial services firm Stripe will soon have an alternative to their automotive commute thanks to Navier, a startup building electric hydrofoil boats.…

The elegant duchess, who turns 59 this week, was seen swaying to a birthday tune while visiting disability charity Mencap - of which she is a patron - in Walton-on-Thames

A new study by Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands reveals the parts of Europe most impacted financially by rising waters.

Lauded by a judge for being 'almost flawless' and 'universally enjoyable', Rie Kudan's latest novel, 'Tokyo-to Dojo-to' ('Sympathy Tower Tokyo'), bagged the biannual Akutagawa Prize

Splinters should be removed quickly to avoid infection and scar tissue buillding. Now, one doctor has taken to TikTok to share a genius hack for pain-free splinter extraction.

There are reports of a fire engine and police cars in the area

Like buying a car where the seats are an optional extra

Microsoft's demands for extra cash from customers wishing to use Copilot for Microsoft 365 has highlighted a growing problem – the number of paid add-ons.…

OpenAI on Thursday announced its first partnership with a higher education institution. Starting in February, Arizona State University will have full access to ChatGPT Enterprise and plans to use it for coursework, tutoring, research and more. From a report: The partnership has been in the works for at least six months, when ASU chief information officer Lev Gonick first visited OpenAI's HQ, which was preceded by the university faculty and staff's earlier use of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools, Gonick told CNBC in an interview. ChatGPT Enterprise, which debuted in August, is ChatGPT's business tier and includes access to GPT-4 with no usage caps, performance that's up to two times faster than previous versions and API credits. With the OpenAI partnership, ASU plans to build a personalized AI tutor for students, not only for certain courses but also for study topics. STEM subjects are a focus and are "the make-or-break subjects for a lot of higher education," Gonick said. The university will also use the tool in ASU's largest course, Freshman Composition, to offer students writing help. ASU also plans to use ChatGPT Enterprise to develop AI avatars as a "creative buddy" for studying certain subjects, like bots that can sing or write poetry about biology, for instance.

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A reporter was filming from the beach in northern France as dozens of migrants boarded an overloaded dinghy in broad daylight.

Published three days after the father-of-four, 55, ascended the throne the 110-page book Kongeord, which translates as The King's Word, is already a bestseller in Denmark.

The estimated total expenditure under the awarded contracts over the initial seven-year contract term is £481m

The action on London North Eastern Railway (LNER), from February 5 to 9, is in addition to a series of walkouts against train operators across England previously announced by Aslef.

Viewers will get to see a young woman beg surgeons for 40 reconstructive facial surgeries in an upcoming and tear-jerking season of Botched. The clip was shared with DailyMail.com.

Just when you thought you had recovered from Bleed

Two vulnerabilities in NetScaler's ADC and Gateway products have been fixed – but not before criminals found and exploited them, according to the vendor.…

Google researchers say they have evidence that a notorious Russian-linked hacking group -- tracked as "Cold River" -- is evolving its tactics beyond phishing to target victims with data-stealing malware. From a report: Cold River, also known as "Callisto Group" and "Star Blizzard," is known for conducting long-running espionage campaigns against NATO countries, particularly the United States and the United Kingdom. Researchers believe the group's activities, which typically target high-profile individuals and organizations involved in international affairs and defense, suggest close ties to the Russian state. U.S. prosecutors in December indicted two Russian nationals linked to the group. Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) said in new research this week that it has observed Cold River ramping up its activity in recent months and using new tactics capable of causing more disruption to its victims, predominantly targets in Ukraine and its NATO allies, academic institutions and non-government organizations. These latest findings come soon after Microsoft researchers reported that the Russia-aligned hacking group had improved its ability to evade detection. In research shared with TechCrunch ahead of its publication on Thursday, TAG researchers say that Cold River has continued to shift beyond its usual tactic of phishing for credentials to delivering malware via campaigns using PDF documents as lures.

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