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Comment by shp0ngle | Hacker News Reader

When the same problem was with Google News - news industry saying, that Google just takes their copyrighted work and makes it available for free through machine learning - people on here usually sided with Google.

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That isn’t what Google News does. Google News takes a snippet and links to the full story, the equivalent of, say, taking the type signatures from a library and then linking to the library.

Not quite - they would need to determine the relevancy of the news story within clusters of stories as well, so it's likely they would take the whole article in order to feed into the clustering algorithm. The result is that a number of articles are clustered together through that algorithm and displays a link to the story with a snippet to allow the user to determine the relevancy.

> displays a link to the story with a snippet

Thats probably the difference that explains the different reactions. At the end of the day, Google News gave traffic to publishers websites. Copilot is very different.

The difference to my eyes is that while Google News processes the article, it doesn't spit it back out. It tags it for searching and for sorting into a directory, and presents it within that directory in the same way it would be displayed in any search engine.

I've always thought the riskiest part of Google News are the tiny thumbnail images used to illustrate each story section. I wonder if they pay for those; I think they might.

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