But Google notes that it only happens under specific circumstances.
This story originally claimed that AI-generated content was being promoted in Google News. We did not note that to find such stories required heavily manipulating the search results in Google News, so much so that it didn’t surface an original, more legitimate source. As 404 Media itself writes, “Both of these rip-off articles appear in Google News search results. The first appears when searching for “Star Wars theory” and setting the results to the past 24 hours. The second appears when searching for the subject of the article with a similar 24 hour setting.” Those search parameters are essentially set to that the original stories don’t appear.
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