Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) on Nostr: Nobody: Google: "The program is part of the Google News Initiative, which launched in ...

Nobody:

Google: "The program is part of the Google News Initiative, which launched in 2018 to provide publishers with technology and training."

Google strong-arming cash-strapped small publishers into polluting the info ecosystem and calling it "training".

https://www.adweek.com/media/google-paying-publishers-unreleased-gen-ai/