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Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries, study suggests

Exclusive: German research into responses to health queries raises fresh questions about summaries seen by 2bn people a month • How the ‘confident authority’ of AI Overviews is putting public health at risk Google’s search feature AI Overviews cites YouTube more than any medical website when answering queries about health conditions, according to research that raises fresh questions about a tool seen by 2 billion people each month. The company has said its AI summaries, which appear at the top of search results and use generative AI to answer questions from users, are “reliable” and cite reputable medical sources such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Mayo Clinic. Continue reading...

theguardian.com

Jan 24

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Google temporarily disabled YouTube's advanced captions without warning

Google says SRV3 was causing playback errors, so it has "temporarily" disabled them.

arstechnica.com

Jan 20

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From shrimp Jesus to erotic tractors: how viral AI slop took over the internet

Flood of unreality is an endpoint of algorithm-driven internet and product of an economy dependent on a few top tech firms In the algorithm-driven economy of 2025, one man’s shrimp Jesus is another man’s side hustle. AI slop – the low-quality, surreal content flooding social media platforms, designed to farm views – is a phenomenon, some would say the phenomenon of the 2024 and 2025 internet. Merriam-Webster’s word of the year this year is “slop”, referring exclusively to the internet variety. Continue reading...

theguardian.com

Dec 27, 2025

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YouTube bans two popular channels that created fake AI movie trailers

Google loves AI content, except when it doesn't.

arstechnica.com

Dec 18, 2025

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YouTube TV to launch genre-based subscription plans in 2026

The new packages will give consumers more flexibility over the content that they want to pay for.

techcrunch.com

Dec 10, 2025

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EU opens investigation into Google’s use of online content for AI models

European Commission to assess whether Gemini owner is putting rival companies at a disadvantage Business live – latest updates The EU has opened an investigation to assess whether Google is breaching European competition rules in its use of online content from publishers and YouTube creators for artificial intelligence. The European Commission said on Tuesday it will examine whether the US tech company, which runs the Gemini AI model and is owned by Alphabet, is putting rival AI owners at a “disadvantage”. Continue reading...

theguardian.com

Dec 9, 2025

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