#ai-overview — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ai-overview, aggregated by home.social.
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“While USA Today Inc., Beehiiv, and Cloudflare are the first major players to take this step, executives at every major media company have a model for what it would look like if they blocked the Google Bot, according to one executive who wished to remain anonymous because of business engagements with Google.
The decision of when to make that call is mostly a matter of math: Once search traffic drops below a certain threshold, the value of appearing there becomes less than the value of withholding that content as a bargaining tactic. And to be clear, every publisher would prefer Google to come to the negotiating table.
But the alternative is bleak. If Google refuses to strike licensing agreements, more premium publishers could follow suit in denying its crawlers access. Doing so would degrade the quality of search results, making it harder for consumers to find accurate news. Just as social media has become a cesspool of misinformation, the open web could be overcome with untrustworthy content too.“
https://www.adweek.com/media/publishers-opt-out-google-search/
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“While USA Today Inc., Beehiiv, and Cloudflare are the first major players to take this step, executives at every major media company have a model for what it would look like if they blocked the Google Bot, according to one executive who wished to remain anonymous because of business engagements with Google.
The decision of when to make that call is mostly a matter of math: Once search traffic drops below a certain threshold, the value of appearing there becomes less than the value of withholding that content as a bargaining tactic. And to be clear, every publisher would prefer Google to come to the negotiating table.
But the alternative is bleak. If Google refuses to strike licensing agreements, more premium publishers could follow suit in denying its crawlers access. Doing so would degrade the quality of search results, making it harder for consumers to find accurate news. Just as social media has become a cesspool of misinformation, the open web could be overcome with untrustworthy content too.“
https://www.adweek.com/media/publishers-opt-out-google-search/
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German Court Says Google Is Liable For False Claims In Its AI Overviews Because They Are Its Own Words
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German Court Says Google Is Liable For False Claims In Its AI Overviews Because They Are Its Own Words
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"When this rolls out to your account, you can visit Google’s My Activity page and then select the Search Services History tab to opt out. This page gives you a solid sense of what Google saves from your Search history. It’s also where you can turn off the entire setting and delete your activity. It’s critical to uncheck the box next to Save media if you don’t want your image uploads used for AI training.
It’s worth doing this change now rather than later. There’s not much you can do after your media data is thrown into the AI blender. “If your saved media is used to train our AI models, it is disconnected from your Google Account. This training data will be kept for up to 4 years, even if you delete the original activity,” read the pop-up when I turned off this feature. That’s such a long time for my random image Search uploads to float around in the digital ether."
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-opt-out-of-google-search-new-ai-data-training/
#AI #AISearch #Google #AITraining #Privacy #DataProtection #AIOverview
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"When this rolls out to your account, you can visit Google’s My Activity page and then select the Search Services History tab to opt out. This page gives you a solid sense of what Google saves from your Search history. It’s also where you can turn off the entire setting and delete your activity. It’s critical to uncheck the box next to Save media if you don’t want your image uploads used for AI training.
It’s worth doing this change now rather than later. There’s not much you can do after your media data is thrown into the AI blender. “If your saved media is used to train our AI models, it is disconnected from your Google Account. This training data will be kept for up to 4 years, even if you delete the original activity,” read the pop-up when I turned off this feature. That’s such a long time for my random image Search uploads to float around in the digital ether."
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-opt-out-of-google-search-new-ai-data-training/
#AI #AISearch #Google #AITraining #Privacy #DataProtection #AIOverview
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Warum ist Googles KI-Zusammenfassung manchmal eigentlich so besonders schlecht? Das habe ich mir für euch angesehen!
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Warum ist Googles KI-Zusammenfassung manchmal eigentlich so besonders schlecht? Das habe ich mir für euch angesehen!
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KI-Halluzinationen: Google haftet, wenn der AI Overview Falsches behauptet (Update) https://www.computerbase.de/news/wirtschaft/ki-halluzinationen-google-haftet-wenn-der-ai-overview-falsches-behauptet.97837/#update-2026-06-11T11:10 #google #aioverview
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KI-Halluzinationen: Google haftet, wenn der AI Overview Falsches behauptet (Update) https://www.computerbase.de/news/wirtschaft/ki-halluzinationen-google-haftet-wenn-der-ai-overview-falsches-behauptet.97837/#update-2026-06-11T11:10 #google #aioverview
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"A German court has ruled that Google is directly liable for what its AI search overviews say. Previous case law shielding search engine operators from liability doesn't apply to AI overviews.
The Regional Court of Munich hit Google with a temporary injunction barring the company from spreading false claims about two Munich-based publishers through its AI-generated search overviews (case no. 26 O 869/26). The court classified Google as a direct infringer because the "AI overview" is its own content, not just a list of search results.
Google's AI overviews had falsely tied two publishing companies to scams, subscription traps, and shady business practices for certain search queries. According to the court, the AI mixed up information about other, genuinely sketchy companies with the plaintiffs and drew connections that didn't appear in any of the linked sources. The publishers sent Google a cease-and-desist letter, but Google didn't respond appropriately."
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"A German court has ruled that Google is directly liable for what its AI search overviews say. Previous case law shielding search engine operators from liability doesn't apply to AI overviews.
The Regional Court of Munich hit Google with a temporary injunction barring the company from spreading false claims about two Munich-based publishers through its AI-generated search overviews (case no. 26 O 869/26). The court classified Google as a direct infringer because the "AI overview" is its own content, not just a list of search results.
Google's AI overviews had falsely tied two publishing companies to scams, subscription traps, and shady business practices for certain search queries. According to the court, the AI mixed up information about other, genuinely sketchy companies with the plaintiffs and drew connections that didn't appear in any of the linked sources. The publishers sent Google a cease-and-desist letter, but Google didn't respond appropriately."
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KI-Halluzinationen: Google haftet, wenn der AI Overview Falsches behauptet https://www.computerbase.de/news/wirtschaft/ki-halluzinationen-google-haftet-wenn-der-ai-overview-falsches-behauptet.97837/ #google #aioverview
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KI-Halluzinationen: Google haftet, wenn der AI Overview Falsches behauptet https://www.computerbase.de/news/wirtschaft/ki-halluzinationen-google-haftet-wenn-der-ai-overview-falsches-behauptet.97837/ #google #aioverview
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AI Overviews vor Gericht: LG München macht Google für falsche KI-Antworten haftbarWer eine KI selbst formulieren lässt, haftet auch für das, was sie dabei erfindet ..
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"Die KI-Übersicht schreibt selbst.""KI-generierte Äußerungen sind laut dem Urteil Ausdruck „eines Algorithmus“, nicht einer „gewonnenen Überzeugung“ .."
https://www.blogspan.net/lg-muenchen-google-ai-overviews-haftung/
9.6.2026
#AI #AIOverview #Algorithmus #Google #Haftung #IT #KI #Software #Suchergebniss #ÜbersichtMitKI
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AI Overviews vor Gericht: LG München macht Google für falsche KI-Antworten haftbarWer eine KI selbst formulieren lässt, haftet auch für das, was sie dabei erfindet ..
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"Die KI-Übersicht schreibt selbst.""KI-generierte Äußerungen sind laut dem Urteil Ausdruck „eines Algorithmus“, nicht einer „gewonnenen Überzeugung“ .."
https://www.blogspan.net/lg-muenchen-google-ai-overviews-haftung/
9.6.2026
#AI #AIOverview #Algorithmus #Google #Haftung #IT #KI #Software #Suchergebniss #ÜbersichtMitKI
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FYI: Google extends Preferred Sources into AI Mode as new sites lose ground: Preferred Sources now badges links inside AI Overviews and AI Mode, a personalization tool that rewards established audiences while new publishers stay buried. https://ppc.land/google-extends-preferred-sources-into-ai-mode-as-new-sites-lose-ground/ #Google #PreferredSources #AIMode #AIOverview #DigitalMarketing
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FYI: Google extends Preferred Sources into AI Mode as new sites lose ground: Preferred Sources now badges links inside AI Overviews and AI Mode, a personalization tool that rewards established audiences while new publishers stay buried. https://ppc.land/google-extends-preferred-sources-into-ai-mode-as-new-sites-lose-ground/ #Google #PreferredSources #AIMode #AIOverview #DigitalMarketing
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Google mit zwei „P“: Wie der AI Overview beim Buchstabieren scheitert https://www.computerbase.de/news/apps/google-mit-zwei-p-wie-der-ai-overview-beim-buchstabieren-scheitert.97574/ #Google #AIOverview
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Google mit zwei „P“: Wie der AI Overview beim Buchstabieren scheitert https://www.computerbase.de/news/apps/google-mit-zwei-p-wie-der-ai-overview-beim-buchstabieren-scheitert.97574/ #Google #AIOverview
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Yesterday, I was double checking the phrase "muri shinaide" (literal translation from Japanese is "don't do the impossible," but contextually is a little more like "take it easy" or "don't work too hard"). I was a bit surprised to see the AI Overview give me that initial response.
Then this morning I saw the news about Google's AI Overview replying to google searches of the word "disregard," so I guess this is a new thing. Haha
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Yesterday, I was double checking the phrase "muri shinaide" (literal translation from Japanese is "don't do the impossible," but contextually is a little more like "take it easy" or "don't work too hard"). I was a bit surprised to see the AI Overview give me that initial response.
Then this morning I saw the news about Google's AI Overview replying to google searches of the word "disregard," so I guess this is a new thing. Haha
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Ho visto questa cosa in trending su Mastodon e ho dovuto provare: assurdo!
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FYI: Google spam policies now officially cover AI Overviews and AI Mode in Search: Google today clarified that spam policies apply to AI Overviews and AI Mode, ending ambiguity over manipulation penalties in AI-generated search results now. https://ppc.land/google-spam-policies-now-officially-cover-ai-overviews-and-ai-mode-in-search/ #Google #Search #AIMode #AIOverview #SpamPolicies
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ICYMI: From the AOF Studio New from the Studio: Google's AI Doesn't Know What The Hollow Circuit Is. We Do. https://www.artoffaceless.com/googles-ai-doesnt-know-what-the-hollow-circuit-is-we-do/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #GoogleAI #HollowCircuit #ArtificialIntelligence #TechTalk #AIOverview
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Google's AI-powered search summaries could be generating vast numbers of inaccuracies every hour, despite appearing largely reliable at first glance.
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Google's AI-powered search summaries could be generating vast numbers of inaccuracies every hour, despite appearing largely reliable at first glance.
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Google "AI overview" is their old #Ai model, it's a hybrid system RAGing off their search engine with an ancient AI that is likely preceding the already sub standard Gemini 1.5-7
In fact when #google first deployed it Gemini was but a twinkle in the devs eye, so it's some dead ended Bard version.
Why do they use it?
1) Because it uses little compute comparing to the later reasoner models. Scale it across 16billion searches a day, it's $1,600,000 / day on the cheapest query AI cost or a more realistic $160million per day. So it makes perfect sense financially to tune the engine so it's right 95% of the time so you can save $100mil a day.2) Frankly, because vast majority of queries can be satisfactorily served.
3) The quality of #googlesearch has been documented to decline so you spend more time on their page generating ad revenue.
Edit; numbers
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#Google #AI Overviews cite #YouTube more than any #medical site for #health queries, study suggests | The Guardian
Researchers at SE Ranking, a search engine optimisation platform, found YouTube made up 4.43% of all #AIOverview citations. No #hospital network, government health portal, medical association or academic institution came close to that number, they said.
“YouTube is not a medical publisher,” the researchers wrote. “Anyone can upload content there ”
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#Google #AI Overviews cite #YouTube more than any #medical site for #health queries, study suggests | The Guardian
Researchers at SE Ranking, a search engine optimisation platform, found YouTube made up 4.43% of all #AIOverview citations. No #hospital network, government health portal, medical association or academic institution came close to that number, they said.
“YouTube is not a medical publisher,” the researchers wrote. “Anyone can upload content there ”
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Ja, scho recht...
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Ja, scho recht...
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Weekly output: FCC frees Verizon from phone-unlocking rule, Donut Lab’s solid-state battery, Wikipedia turns 25, Google traffic trends
This week brought a lot of unpleasant headlines, but none made me feel uneasy like the news that Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson was subjected to an unexpected visit by the FBI at her house Wednesday that concluded with investigators confiscating her work and personal laptops, her phone and her smartwatch–all seized, it now seems, on a fraudulent pretext. Since then, the man who spent his equivalent of pocket change to buy the Post in 2013 has said nothing about that in public, yet another way in which Jeff Bezos has shown himself an unworthy successor to Katharine Graham and her son Don Graham.
In addition to what you see below, I wrote a post for Patreon readers sharing bonus bits about what I learned at CES two weeks ago.
1/12/2026, FCC Unties Verizon From 60-Day Phone-Unlocking Rule, PCMag
Two days after the Federal Communications Commission granted Verizon’s wish, Verizon suffered an hours-long outage that people could work around relatively easily if their phones were unlocked to allow them to add a third-party eSIM.
1/15/2026: Wikipedia Is Now 25 Years Old [Citation Not Needed], PCMag
I had made a mental note to myself to write an essay about the free online encyclopedia hitting the quarter-century mark, but then the actual date snuck up on me. Fortunately, the lede and the headline basically wrote themselves.
1/17/2026: Donut Labs’ Solid-State Battery-Powered Motorcycle Turned Heads at CES, But Big Questions Remain, PCMag
Writing this left me feeling over my skis more than usual–I don’t cover battery technology in any great depth, this startup has disclosed almost nothing about the design of its solid-state batteries, and two outside analysts weren’t willing to assess their pitch. But reading up at length on this company and on others working on better EV batteries did make me realize one thing: There’s enough innovation happening here that we don’t need Donut’s invention to work.
1/17/2026: AI Is Still Hammering News Sites, Google Search and Social Referrals Plunge, PCMag
The brutal declines in Google search traffic reported in a study published Monday by the University of Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism caught my eyes and those of my editors, but I also found some news value in this report’s stats about which online platforms and technologies newsroom leaders plan to emphasize or back away from.
#AI #AIOverview #BrendanCarr #ces #DonutLab #EVBattery #FCC #phoneUnlocking #SIMLock #smartphoneUnlock #solidStateBattery #verizon #Wikipedia
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Weekly output: FCC frees Verizon from phone-unlocking rule, Donut Lab’s solid-state battery, Wikipedia turns 25, Google traffic trends
This week brought a lot of unpleasant headlines, but none made me feel uneasy like the news that Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson was subjected to an unexpected visit by the FBI at her house Wednesday that concluded with investigators confiscating her work and personal laptops, her phone and her smartwatch–all seized, it now seems, on a fraudulent pretext. Since then, the man who spent his equivalent of pocket change to buy the Post in 2013 has said nothing about that in public, yet another way in which Jeff Bezos has shown himself an unworthy successor to Katharine Graham and her son Don Graham.
In addition to what you see below, I wrote a post for Patreon readers sharing bonus bits about what I learned at CES two weeks ago.
1/12/2026, FCC Unties Verizon From 60-Day Phone-Unlocking Rule, PCMag
Two days after the Federal Communications Commission granted Verizon’s wish, Verizon suffered an hours-long outage that people could work around relatively easily if their phones were unlocked to allow them to add a third-party eSIM.
1/15/2026: Wikipedia Is Now 25 Years Old [Citation Not Needed], PCMag
I had made a mental note to myself to write an essay about the free online encyclopedia hitting the quarter-century mark, but then the actual date snuck up on me. Fortunately, the lede and the headline basically wrote themselves.
1/17/2026: Donut Labs’ Solid-State Battery-Powered Motorcycle Turned Heads at CES, But Big Questions Remain, PCMag
Writing this left me feeling over my skis more than usual–I don’t cover battery technology in any great depth, this startup has disclosed almost nothing about the design of its solid-state batteries, and two outside analysts weren’t willing to assess their pitch. But reading up at length on this company and on others working on better EV batteries did make me realize one thing: There’s enough innovation happening here that we don’t need Donut’s invention to work.
1/17/2026: AI Is Still Hammering News Sites, Google Search and Social Referrals Plunge, PCMag
The brutal declines in Google search traffic reported in a study published Monday by the University of Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism caught my eyes and those of my editors, but I also found some news value in this report’s stats about which online platforms and technologies newsroom leaders plan to emphasize or back away from.
#AI #AIOverview #BrendanCarr #ces #DonutLab #EVBattery #FCC #phoneUnlocking #SIMLock #smartphoneUnlock #solidStateBattery #verizon #Wikipedia
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KORANMANDALA.COM – Dalam podcast resmi Google Search Off the Record yang rilis (8/1/2026), Danny Sullivan menyatakan bahwa praktik Bite-Sized Chunks (memecah konten menjadi potongan kecil) demi memuaskan sistem AI atau LLM (Large Language Model) bukanlah strategi yang sehat. “Kami tidak ingin kamu melakukan itu,” kata Sullivan, menekankan bahwa Google tidak ingin konten dibuat khusus untuk [...]
Artikel Google Warning: Jangan Pecah Konten… https://www.koranmandala.com/tekno/210598/google-warning-jangan-pecah-konten-jadi-potongan-mini/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Tekno #AIOverview
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Google pushes Gmail into its Gemini era, but is this really what users want?
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/01/google-gmail-gemini-ai-push/
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Google pushes Gmail into its Gemini era, but is this really what users want?
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/01/google-gmail-gemini-ai-push/
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Canadian fiddler Ashley MacIsaac had a concert cancelled after Google's AI labeled him a sex offender.
The Juno Award-winning musician learned about it when event organizers confronted him with the AI summary and pulled the gig.
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Canadian fiddler Ashley MacIsaac had a concert cancelled after Google's AI labeled him a sex offender.
The Juno Award-winning musician learned about it when event organizers confronted him with the AI summary and pulled the gig.
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Google AI oskarżyło znanego muzyka o najgorsze. Koncert odwołano, bo algorytm „pomylił osoby”
To miał być standardowy koncert Ashley’a MacIsaaca, legendy kanadyjskiej sceny muzycznej. Zamiast tego artysta otrzymał wilczy bilet. Powód? Organizatorzy wpisali jego nazwisko w Google, a sztuczna inteligencja w sekcji AI Overview poinformowała ich, że mają do czynienia z przestępcą seksualnym.
Pamiętacie, jak Google AI kazało ludziom smarować pizzę klejem, albo jeść kamienie? Śmialiśmy się. Teraz jednak żarty się skończyły. Błąd algorytmu (tzw. halucynacja) realnie wpłynął na czyjeś życie i karierę.
„Cyfrowy wyrok” bez sądu
Sprawę nagłośnił The Globe and Mail. Organizatorzy koncertu w społeczności Sipekne’katik First Nation w Nowej Szkocji odwołali występ MacIsaaca w ostatniej chwili. Powołali się na informacje z Google, według których muzyk miał na koncie wyroki za napaści seksualne i „internetowe nagabywanie” (internet luring).
Problem w tym, że to nie była prawda. Algorytm Google AI Overview „skleił” biografię słynnego skrzypka z życiorysem zupełnie innej osoby o tym samym nazwisku, która faktycznie miała kartotekę. Dla AI to tylko zbieżność tokenów. Dla człowieka – utrata reputacji i zarobku.
Z nawigatora w narratora
Eksperci biją na alarm. Clifton van der Linden z Uniwersytetu McMaster celnie zauważa: „Obserwujemy przejście wyszukiwarek z roli nawigatorów informacji w rolę narratorów”. Kiedyś Google odsyłało nas do źródeł (gdzie mogliśmy zweryfikować autora). Dziś AI Overviews podaje gotową „papkę”, którą większość użytkowników traktuje jak prawdę objawioną.
Google: „Uczymy się”
Rzecznik Google, Wendy Manton, w standardowym oświadczeniu stwierdziła, że „wyszukiwarka jest dynamiczna”, a firma „wykorzysta ten przykład do ulepszenia systemów”. Wyniki dla MacIsaaca zostały ręcznie poprawione. Organizatorzy koncertu przeprosili artystę, tłumacząc się błędem, i zaprosili go ponownie. Ale niesmak i strach pozostały. MacIsaac słusznie pyta: ilu organizatorów wcześniej widziało te bzdury i po prostu cicho rezygnowało z jego usług, nie mówiąc mu dlaczego?
To ostrzeżenie dla nas wszystkich. W 2026 roku, zanim uwierzysz w to, co „mówi Google” na górze strony – przewiń niżej i sprawdź prawdziwe źródła. Twoje lenistwo może kogoś skrzywdzić. Zwłaszcza, gdy na podstawie tego co wygeneruje AI podejmujesz decyzje, które mogą mieć wpływ na czyjeś życie.
#AIOverview #AshleyMacIsaac #fakeNews #Google #GoogleSearch #halucynacjeAI #sztucznaInteligencja #technologiaAI pomyliło klarnet z karabinem i wywołało lockdown szkoły. Twórcy systemu: „To nie był błąd”
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For years I've been writing that AI is essentially another stage of control over semantics. The power of philosopher kings (Plato) who create new myths.
A process that has accelerated... building internet gateways that filter meaning.
New piece on the expert's paradox and the facade of trustworthiness.
https://dadalo.pl/en/tech/ai-slop-expert-paradox-cognitive-biases/
#AI #epistemology #Google #bias #AIOverview #disinformation #criticalthinking #tech #SearchEngines
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For years I've been writing that AI is essentially another stage of control over semantics. The power of philosopher kings (Plato) who create new myths.
A process that has accelerated... building internet gateways that filter meaning.
New piece on the expert's paradox and the facade of trustworthiness.
https://dadalo.pl/en/tech/ai-slop-expert-paradox-cognitive-biases/
#AI #epistemology #Google #bias #AIOverview #disinformation #criticalthinking #tech #SearchEngines
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Weekly output: Mozilla Firefox CEO, AI crawlers vs. publishers and creators, teenage AI chatbot use, Android Live Emergency Video, PCMag’s best tech bought in 2025, World App
Somehow I’m down to the last full workweek of the year–and yet my writing and gift shopping seem to have more than a week’s worth of work remaining.
12/8/2025: Mozilla is doing a delicate dance with AI, Fast Company
I spoke with Mozilla CEO Laura Chambers at a Web Summit event for the second time this year. One thing Firefox’s management no longer needs to worry about, unlike when I met with Chambers at Web Summit Qatar in February: the threat of Google being forced to stop paying browser developers to keep its search engine as the default.
12/9/2025: AI Platforms Are Paying (Some) Big Publishers, Leaving Smaller Ones Behind, PCMag
This post began with me taking notes from a Web Summit panel featuring Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince talking about that Internet infrastructure company’s Pay Per Crawl initiative to push AI providers to pay Web publishers for access to their content, then I did some follow-up reporting that included setting up Cloudflare’s AI Crawl Control bot-blocking filter on this blog, and then I had to update the post the morning it was published after the European Commission opened an investigation into how Google runs its AI Overview search feature.
12/9/2025: 28% of Teens Use Chatbots Daily. You Can Probably Guess Which One They Like Best, PCMag
The latest survey by the Pew Research Center surfaced some interesting statistics about how much teenagers use AI chatbots and which ones they use the most.
12/10/2025: Need Help? Android Phones Can Now Share Live Video With 911 Dispatchers, PCMag
Google is shipping this feature a year after Apple did, but its emergency live video implementation works on far more devices than Apple’s.
12/11/2025: The Best Tech PCMag Editors Bought in 2025, PCMag
I wrote a short graf lauding the compact, quick-charging (and Wirecutter-endorsed) USB-C charger that I bought after losing the considerably bulkier model that came with my laptop.
12/13/2025: App That Verifies Your Existence Adds Encrypted Messaging, PCMag
Tools for Humanity announced an update to its World App that adds an end-to-end-encrypted chat feature and expands its cryptocurrency tools. I took advantage of this news peg to try out the app’s ability to verify a “World ID” by scanning the NFC tag on my U.S. passport; that did not go well at all for me.
12/15/2025: Updated to add the PCMag best-tech package that I forgot to check for on Sunday.
#AIChatbot #AIOverview #AISearch #ChatGPT #Firefox #GoogleZero #Mozilla #PayPerCrawl #PewResearchCenter #ToolsForHumanity #WebSummit #WorldApp #WorldID
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Weekly output: Mozilla Firefox CEO, AI crawlers vs. publishers and creators, teenage AI chatbot use, Android Live Emergency Video, PCMag’s best tech bought in 2025, World App
Somehow I’m down to the last full workweek of the year–and yet my writing and gift shopping seem to have more than a week’s worth of work remaining.
12/8/2025: Mozilla is doing a delicate dance with AI, Fast Company
I spoke with Mozilla CEO Laura Chambers at a Web Summit event for the second time this year. One thing Firefox’s management no longer needs to worry about, unlike when I met with Chambers at Web Summit Qatar in February: the threat of Google being forced to stop paying browser developers to keep its search engine as the default.
12/9/2025: AI Platforms Are Paying (Some) Big Publishers, Leaving Smaller Ones Behind, PCMag
This post began with me taking notes from a Web Summit panel featuring Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince talking about that Internet infrastructure company’s Pay Per Crawl initiative to push AI providers to pay Web publishers for access to their content, then I did some follow-up reporting that included setting up Cloudflare’s AI Crawl Control bot-blocking filter on this blog, and then I had to update the post the morning it was published after the European Commission opened an investigation into how Google runs its AI Overview search feature.
12/9/2025: 28% of Teens Use Chatbots Daily. You Can Probably Guess Which One They Like Best, PCMag
The latest survey by the Pew Research Center surfaced some interesting statistics about how much teenagers use AI chatbots and which ones they use the most.
12/10/2025: Need Help? Android Phones Can Now Share Live Video With 911 Dispatchers, PCMag
Google is shipping this feature a year after Apple did, but its emergency live video implementation works on far more devices than Apple’s.
12/11/2025: The Best Tech PCMag Editors Bought in 2025, PCMag
I wrote a short graf lauding the compact, quick-charging (and Wirecutter-endorsed) USB-C charger that I bought after losing the considerably bulkier model that came with my laptop.
12/13/2025: App That Verifies Your Existence Adds Encrypted Messaging, PCMag
Tools for Humanity announced an update to its World App that adds an end-to-end-encrypted chat feature and expands its cryptocurrency tools. I took advantage of this news peg to try out the app’s ability to verify a “World ID” by scanning the NFC tag on my U.S. passport; that did not go well at all for me.
12/15/2025: Updated to add the PCMag best-tech package that I forgot to check for on Sunday.
#AIChatbot #AIOverview #AISearch #ChatGPT #Firefox #GoogleZero #Mozilla #PayPerCrawl #PewResearchCenter #ToolsForHumanity #WebSummit #WorldApp #WorldID
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Europe’s Antitrust Investigation Against Google Moves Ahead
AI Overviews has been zapping people's traffic. Now, Europe is initiating an antitrust investigation against Google in response.
https://www.freezenet.ca/europes-antitrust-investigation-against-google-moves-ahead/
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Europe’s Antitrust Investigation Against Google Moves Ahead
AI Overviews has been zapping people's traffic. Now, Europe is initiating an antitrust investigation against Google in response.
https://www.freezenet.ca/europes-antitrust-investigation-against-google-moves-ahead/
#LawAndTechnology #News #Technology #AI #AIOverview #antitrust #Europe #Google
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Great data & insights from @ahrefs 🔍
📊 New research shows that Google AI Overviews change every 2 days — yet their underlying meaning stays almost identical.
AI search is both highly dynamic (70% content change, 45% citation turnover) and semantically stable (0.95/1.0 similarity).
Full article → https://ahrefs.com/blog/ai-overview-change/
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“William Blake’s poem ‘Eternity’ was written in 1880, which was after his death in 1827.”
Great work, Google AI. The Zero-Click Impression is working out swimmingly. No notes.
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“William Blake’s poem ‘Eternity’ was written in 1880, which was after his death in 1827.”
Great work, Google AI. The Zero-Click Impression is working out swimmingly. No notes.
#google #ai #artificialintelligence #googlegemini #chatgpt #williamblake #poetry #romanticism #literature #aioverview #poem #zeroclickimpression #search #snafu