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How Google News is AI biased and the alleged Meghan Markle yacht photo

If you search the name of a public figure on Google search you will be presented with a selection of news articles written about the individual. Often categorised into news themes taken from traditional media headlines. Who does this selection and are they transparent about it?

By PricetrakerPublished 5 months ago 3 min read
You only see what I think you should see. Google news.

Since I have a suspicion that these news themes may be driven by AI algorithms, I thought who best to ask with that expertise is my old AI buddy, Google Gemini. So I asked my AI buddy to lend me into his wealth of knowledge about this matter with a simple question.

Qualified expert, Google Gemini 🤪

Lets dissect what the Google insider, Gemini has told us here with an example. The Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle or simply Meghan on Google search.

Source Selection?

How convenient that this so called source Selection is heavily biased in favour of the MailOnline trading as the DailyMail.

Source Selection:
Google's algorithms analyze a vast number of online news sources, and human editors play a role in deciding which sources are included in Google News.

Lets take another criteria ranking and looking at our example to see if it passes the test.

Ranking and Presentation:
The algorithms then rank the articles based on factors like freshness, relevance to the user, and the authority of the source.

Factors like freshness? That article is clearly one day old which is categorised under the theme of the Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle's 44th birthday. The next criteria is relevance to the user and the authority of the source. What this means is that Google News heavily places emphasis on my alleged search history and if the media organisation is authoritative. In other words, I get fed what it thinks I will be interested in reading. For the record, I do not actually find the MailOnline as an authoritative media organisation but Google News clearly thinks it is.

Let's look into the definition of authoritative.

"Able to be trusted as being accurate or true; reliable."

Listen, Gemini, my old AI buddy tell your colleagues at Google News, those little bots like you, to stop stealing my data. Would you do this simple request for me, old buddy? Thank you.

Personalization:

Google News also personalizes the news it displays based on user interests and search history.

This has clearly influenced the next categorised Google news theme of "Queen Elizabeth II reportedly upset over Meghan Markle". I know that because the MailOnline has daily articles about alleged opinions of her late Majesty, RIP.

Human Editorial Input:
While algorithms handle much of the work, Google News also incorporates human editorial input in selecting which sources are included in the first place.

This is interesting, human editorial input? Now, my old AI buddy, Gemini can I just bother you again with another one little thing? How transparent are these so called human editors who chooses what are my top picks of the news daily?

I now get a lecture from Gemini. 🤪

Does it stand up to scrutiny?

Can I just point out to you Gemini that if human editors have oversight in source selection of Google news, they indirectly have influence. And you have just told me as well that they are not transparent because of the lack of direct disclosure of the list of those human editors.

And here is my own disclosure, Gemini, I am alleging that someone at Google news does not like articles from Vocal media as a source on Google news because I have evidence certain articles have been filtered from the source selection of Google news. If my search history is stolen to influence the selection of the MailOnline how come the Vocal media search history is ignored?

Another issue is how Google search categorises the theme "What people are saying" often taken from X formerly Twitter feed. Someone who clearly follows Google trends of an alleged yacht photo wants to capitalise with this fake AI generated photo. That word "clickbait".

AI generated feed prominent on Google search of Meghan

I think many will get the point I am making here. The law should be blind against whatever feelings we have for any individual. AI generated content should be labelled as such. I have actually seen another more realistic photo which even the Duchess of Sussex Meghan's online critics still believe is AI generated. I have decided not to share it here because I also believe it is AI generated.

I must now get rid of Gemini for being a fraud whose knowledge is the sum total of alleged online sources. But before that old pal.

Personal desires? What? 😂

I only think, Gemini, you should join your mates in Journalism since you seem to always quote alleged sources. Delete, uninstall or what ever you call it. Gemini gone.

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