"Google News Grapples with AI-Generated Content Controversy"
Google emphasizes its focus on the quality of content rather than its production method, as AI-generated duplicates of articles continue to proliferate on Google News. Despite Google's policies against automatically-generated content for ranking purposes, the issue persists, with AI-powered sites copying and posting content from various sources. Google's automated process for adding content to Google News aims to reward original content, but the system is struggling to filter out automatically-generated content. While Google has taken action against some sites stealing content, it continues to test AI-powered search experiences that may further obscure original sources.