Google Paying Publishers to Use AI Is Bad, but Not for the Reasons You Think

Empowering newsrooms with AI isn't a bad thing, but it's not a job for platforms.

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The news last week that Google is making deals with several smaller newsrooms to get them to use the company's generative AI tools to publish stories was met with near-universal skepticism from the media industry.

This is certainly understandable. For starters, Google never announced it was doing this,…