Evans: AI summarizing news without links raises deeper issues than search engines
Benedict Evans · GPT-4 is here, now what? · Mar 27, 2023 · at 38:41
Tech analyst Benedict Evans contrasts how generative AI summarizes content without attribution with how search engines and social platforms link out to publishers.
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“If you're going to, you know, build a new system that will just tell you what the story was without linking or giving you credit, that's very different from you know, what Google and Facebook do, which is you search for a new story and they tell you where to read it, and the newspaper is under the impression that they should get paid for that. If you're just abstracting the whole story and telling people what happened and not linking to where you got it from, well, that's, that raises much more kind of real issues.”
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