Jeff JarvisI smell AI
Johan Sköld@jeffjarvis Is that actually AP or a news aggregator? The card style and the follow button make me think it's the latter.
@rhoot
It's what the AP provides to Google News
It's what the AP provides to Google News
Stefan Habel@jeffjarvis @rhoot The source article contains the following sentence:
“The largely French-speaking province of Quebec held referendums in 1980 and 1995 over separation. Both failed.”
It is likely that Google’s automated summary mixed that up to mean Alberta.
https://apnews.com/article/canada-alberta-referendum-separation-b3da116c6800347f82da5011ee29f8f3
“The largely French-speaking province of Quebec held referendums in 1980 and 1995 over separation. Both failed.”
It is likely that Google’s automated summary mixed that up to mean Alberta.
https://apnews.com/article/canada-alberta-referendum-separation-b3da116c6800347f82da5011ee29f8f3
Alberta's premier proposes referendum on separation from Canada
The premier of Alberta says she will hold a referendum next year on the energy rich province separating from Canada if citizens gather the required number of signatures on a petition. Speaking on a livestream address, Danielle Smith said she personally does not support the province leaving Canada and expressed hope of a “path forward” for a strong and sovereign Alberta within a united Canada. Smith’s announcement comes just one week after Prime Minister Mark Carney led the Liberal Party to a fourth consecutive federal government. It also comes as U.S. President Donald Trump continues to threaten Canada with tariffs and talk of the country becoming the 51st state.
@StefanHabel @jeffjarvis I too suspect it's Google's AI summarizing the article.
@StefanHabel @jeffjarvis in fact, it looks an awful lot like the AI generated page summary feature they added to the Google app in 2023. It doesn't take much imagination to envision them using that on all news articles two years later, in a time when they are aggressively pushing their AI.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/15/23833045/google-artificial-intelligence-summary-chrome-sge
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/15/23833045/google-artificial-intelligence-summary-chrome-sge
Google Chrome will summarize entire articles for you with built-in generative AI
Google’s latest generative AI tool is an experiment in Chrome called “SGE while browsing” that uses generative AI to create summaries and lists of key points in articles as you read, available starting today in Android and iOS.
@rhoot @jeffjarvis yeah… in light of this, it is wrong to state that it is AP who said Alberta is a province of Quebec, which is what the alt text of the screenshot attached to the original post suggests