Google News is indexing and promoting websites that immediately rip off others with AI clones of their articles. These websites are absolutely littered with Google ads. Our website, in which real humans do journalism, is not indexed by Google News
https://www.404media.co/google-news-is-boosting-garbage-ai-generated-articles/
Google's stated position on this is that it doesn't mind AI-gen content: “Our focus when ranking content is on the quality of the content, rather than how it was produced. Automatically-generated content produced primarily for ranking purposes is considered spam, and we take action as appropriate under our policies."
Let's look at what Google considers "News":
Here is a site called "WorldTimeTodays," which is indexed by Google News. Its website is almost entirely ads. Lets check out its writers and articles. Here is "Gary B. Graves" Gary has "written" 40 articles in the last 24 hours. Many of the articles straight up steal identifiable images from other outlets. You can go through his byline and identify exactly which website it was stolen from
"Gary" rips off http://Heavy.com multiple times a day. Here's Gary on the left and Heavy on the right
@jasonkoebler Since they're ripping off the images from your articles too... I know a great way to hoist them on their own petard. DM me for details.
