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Are Google AI Overviews killing media pluralism? AlgorithmWatch amongst first organizations to investigate that.

Google could destroy the web traffic which is the life-blood of organisations who produce reliable information. This is thanks to their new AI Overviews – a tool that hides links to real websites, in favour of their own summaries which have (for example) claimed Olaf Scholz is still the German Chancellor. AlgorithmWatch is making one of the very first data access requests under new EU rules to investigate these systemic risks to media freedom.

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Press release

Google AI risks to media pluralism investigated by AlgorithmWatch using brand new data access rules

AlgorithmWatch is requesting data from Google regarding the impact of their “AI Overviews” service on traffic to external websites. The NGO is concerned that AI Overviews pose a risk to media pluralism and freedom of information and is one of the first organizations to use new EU rules to gain access to internal data from major online services.

Image classification algorithms at Apple, Google still push racist tropes

Automated systems from Apple and Google label characters with dark skins “Animals”.