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Ryan Singel

Google announced it’s creating an LLM-based article summarizer for its new search experience. The tools will just summarize a post or news story for you, so you don’t have to actually read a pesky news story or blog post.

Publishers who don’t want their stories summarized can apparently opt out by incorrectly labeling their posts as paywalled, thus demoting themselves in search.

The future is gonna be LLMs summarizing LLM junk, all the way down.

techcrunch.com/2023/08/15/goog

consent.yahoo.comTechCrunch is part of the Yahoo family of brands

Google is developing an LLM-based tool to summarize articles in its new search experience. Publishers can opt out by mislabeling their posts as paywalled. The future involves LLMs summarizing LLM content.

Google's new LLM tool will summarize articles; publishers can opt out by mislabeling posts. Future: LLMs summarizing LLMs.

Google's LLM tool summarizes articles; opt-out possible. Future: LLMs summarizing LLMs.

@jeffehobbs
Don't make me use an LLM to summarize the sign

@ryansingel

I see what you did there! But shouldn't the shortest summary come up first in Google's logic?

@ryansingel An of course, the link preview is for consent.yahoo.com with no article snippet, which would make an LLM article summarizer more valuable. Monetization all the way down.

@ryansingel As described in #PaloAlto by #MalcolmHarris the Californian disruptor mindset is too short-sighted to see the problems of "their" model getting mass-adopted. #BoomBustCycle