Google signs deal with Associated Press to bring more real-time information to Gemini

To do this Gemini chatbot app More than a one-stop shop, Google says it’s working with the Associated Press to create “real-time information” on Gemini.

Jaffer Zaidi, vice president of global news partnerships at Google, he said the goal is to “further increase the usefulness of the results” in the Gemini experiment.

“As we develop new AI offerings and product(s), we identify specific types of information and data that can help improve our products and services for people everywhere,” Zaidi wrote in a blog post. “This (new feed) will be especially useful for our users looking for the latest information.”

Zaidi did not provide any information on when the feature might arrive in Gemini or if it will be visible to users in every region where the app is available.

Google, the one that is long term partnership The Associated Press is one of many AI developers working to partner with news organizations to improve the accuracy of AI technologies.

OpenAI has partnered with publishers, including Financial Times, Axel Springerand News Corp.Owner of The Wall Street Journal. Elsewhere, an AI-powered search engine Confusion turned on program Allows publishers to earn additional revenue when their content is cited in results.

Some of these deals have a training component. Publishers like it Condé Nast have agreed to allow AI vendors with a license agreement to train AI models on their archives. The AI ​​industry presents these regulations mainly as a service to journalism, but they are also designed to protect AI companies from them. claims of copyright infringement.

In many cases, publisher deals haven’t actually improved the AI ​​companies’ products appreciably. Recent research from Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism showed OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPTit even misquotes content from publishers who have contracts with OpenAI.

Whatever it is the dire state of the news industry what is likely to push more output to ensure contracts can