A #German Court Has Ruled That #Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by #AIOverviews

The ruling holds that a company that designs, trains, operates, and manages an #AI system must assume legal #liability for any damages caused by the responses it generates.

https://www.wired.com/story/a-court-has-ruled-that-google-is-liable-for-false-statements-generated-by-ai-overviews/

You can’t take humans out of the chain of responsibility

AI May Make Mistakes But Court Finds AI Makers Are Still Responsible
#AI #Google #Tech

https://warnercrocker.com/2026/06/11/ai-may-make-mistakes-but-court-finds-ai-makers-are-still-responsible/

Oh look, #Google #Play #Integrity has failed again on my phone. ARRGH!

But also, why the fuck does the app for my car, which just allows me to look at the car's state of charge and turn the aircon on, require Play Integrity in the first place?!

You can’t take humans out of the chain of responsibility

AI May Make Mistakes But Court Finds AI Makers Are Still Responsible
#AI #Google #Tech

https://warnercrocker.com/2026/06/11/ai-may-make-mistakes-but-court-finds-ai-makers-are-still-responsible/

@david_chisnall

That's a crazy admission to make in court. "Your honor, everyone knows my client is unstable and untrustworthy so no one should pay attention to anything they say" is definitely not a brilliant defense for a company whose results we are supposed to trust.

I wonder how the definition of "Google it" will change over time?

#ai #llm #google

Android 17 QPR1 Beta 4: Update bringt neue „Screen Reactions“ und Bugfixes

Die Beta 4 von Android 17 QPR1 hat neben Bugfixes wenige neue Funktionen an Bord.

https://www.heise.de/news/Android-17-QPR1-Beta-4-Update-bringt-neue-Screen-Reactions-und-Bugfixes-11328340.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Android #Apps #Google #Kamera #Mobiles #Smartphone #Updates #news

Howdy folks, as some of y'all are aware, I carry an Android phone - specifically a Oneplus 11 on Lineage.

This whole 'Android dev lockdown / verification' situation irks me. I don't like the play store, I see it as a den of malware and villainy, only meant to peddle corporate spyware, invasive Ai agents, tracking systems and ads into our lives.

So I am faced with a dilemma, but as a millennial, I remember Y2K. The world didn't end just because it suddenly went from 1999 to 2000, and so the world won't end just because September is coming, then August, and so forth.

There will be holdouts, there will be devs who 'dgaf', who continue putting out apks for 'unverified' Android. Hell, you'll likely have two years of boredom and tossing it about in your mind before you actually have to do anything about it to function in society.

So, where do I sit? I'm in the holdout camp in the short term. I have a plan for the bigger picture that will basically treat a post-2026 cellphone like a piece of radioactive material that's only purpose is to beam a tetherable wifi connection, and only be used for calls and ordering pizza whenever it's rarely let out of its Faraday bag or vaccum-sealed lead box.

Thanks to Google, Apple and Microslop, We live in a caustic world that hates and despises us, but that's all well and good.

So do they.

#cellphones #android #google #unverified #verification

@david_chisnall
Google's famous slogan, "Don't be evil," should probably be updated to: "Don't be as evil as we are."
#Google #LLM #Liability #Ai

Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow

https://www.neowin.net/news/google-chrome-is-killing-all-ublock-origin-bypasses-microsoft-edge-opera-to-follow/#login-form

> Google Chrome is looking to finish off the various bypasses that help uBlock Origin and other such MV2 extensions to keep functioning. Edge and Opera could soon follow too.

#uBlockOrigin #technology #Google #advertising

@ai6yr
If you're going to be anywhere authentically rural, don't trust Google Maps.
Also:
Google: Don't Be (As) Evil (As we are).
#Google #GoogleMaps #OffRoading

#tech #technology #BigTech #IT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AIAgent #AISlop #FuckAI #Fuck_AI #enshittification #microslop #microsoft #copilot #meta #google #NVIDIA #gemini #OpenAI #ChatGPT #anthropic #claude

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Two-panel comic, showing a slick businessman in the first frame, grinningly pointing to a product promotion image, while saying "With AI image generation, we don't have to pay artists to advertise our product." In the second panel, a potential customer approaches the image, and says "Hmm, AI… Must be a cheap scammy product if they couldn't afford an artist."

Apple's partnership with Google AI: Not a single feature people actually need

Looking over Apple's announcement of their new AI features in league with Google, I can't find a single feature that anybody would actually need. It's all a pile of slop, for which beautiful rural and other communities are being destroyed to build those grotesque, polluting data centers. The entire LLM AI experience as perpetrated by the AI firms and their minions is without a doubt the most enormous example of corporate technology abuse against humanity in the history of technology.

#apple #google #ai

Google: Neues KI-Modell läuft auch auf Laptops mit nur 16GB RAM

Google veröffentlicht Gemma 4 12B: Das lokale Open-Source-Modell läuft schon auf Laptops mit nur 16 GByte RAM.

https://www.heise.de/news/Google-Neues-KI-Modell-laeuft-auch-auf-Laptops-mit-nur-16GB-RAM-11318979.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#DeepLearning #Google #IT #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Laptop #MachineLearning #OpenSource #news

Google stellt KI-Bildbearbeitungs-App Pixel Studio ein

Google macht seine KI-Bildbearbeitungs-App Pixel Studio dicht. Weniger als zwei Jahre nach der Einführung.

https://www.heise.de/news/Google-stellt-KI-Bildbearbeitungs-App-Pixel-Studio-ein-11321204.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Apps #Bildbearbeitung #Google #GooglePixel #IT #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Smartphone #Updates #news

🌐 Many companies now block older browser versions from accessing their websites!

This follows many #browser makers ending updates 4 older operating systems, leaving legacy devices unable to use #web services without an #OS upgrade.

This kinda reminds me of the Java #website block by browsers a few years ago, just in reverse. (Revenge? ;)

Old #Android versions are also increasingly blocked from accessing the #Google #appstore.

Truly about security or perhaps Planned Obsolescence?

#Tech #News

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Algorithmic censorship

These are the 10/16 images blocked by Google's NotebookLM in my latest project:

"The image content is not supported."

#photography
#censorship
#algorithms
#inequality
#India
#Bangladesh
#Google
#NotebookLM

Posting this to #mastodon because this is the kind of thing most of us here seem to care about by virtue of being here:

Google's Android Developer Verification program requires government ID, signing key evidence, and a fee for any developer who wants their software installable on Android. The EFF calls app gatekeeping "a pathway to censorship." over 67 organizations have signed an open letter opposing it. @keepandroidopen #KeepAndroidOpen https://keepandroidopen.org

🤘 😎

#android #google

#Google fired her for refusing to retract it in 2020. The firing itself proved the point she was making. The people who pay for the system can't afford to hear what's wrong with it. Every warning from Timnit Gebru's "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots" has now come true. At scale. Hallucinations, bias amplification, environmental cost, un-auditable training data, model collapse.

https://www.tumblr.com/dreaminginthedeepsouth/817865966907228160/darren-oconnor-timnit-gebru-was-fired-from

#TimnitGebru #stochasticparrots #aiethics #responsibleai #aicon #aihype

Almost Everybody Hates AI

"Google’s CEO says 75% of the company’s code is AI-generated. The people who write that code say the AI they’re using is overhyped."

https://www.404media.co/google-employees-internally-share-memes-about-how-its-ai-sucks/

#Google #AI #AIHustle #AIBubble #Technology #SundarPichai

If starting a few days ago you've often been getting duplicated messages received from #Gmail on non-Gmail systems, you're not the only one -- there have been multiple reports. The typical pattern is two deliveries of the same email within 30 seconds or so, both with the same message-id but delivered by different #Google servers. I am in direct touch with Google about this.

"The Singularity is just around the corner.....now marvel at these AI Nudes!"

fuck off

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-deepmind-ceo-demis-hassabis-agi-new-human-era-2026-6

#Google #AIHustle #AIBubble #AGI #DemisHassabis #TechBros

The only thing I like about LLMs is when they BURN the owners of those LLMs 😂

#NoAI #DeGoogle #Google #Gemini #LLM #NotAI #Because #ThereIsNo #Intelligence #Involved #Funny

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Screenshot of someone asking Gemini, "Can I trust Google with my data? Just the answer, no explanation." Answer by Google search/Gemini, "No."

REPORT: #Google has "secret" program to buy code from Android devs to train #AI

https://www.404media.co/google-is-quietly-buying-code-from-play-store-developers-to-train-ai/

#book #ya #youngadult #youngadulttoadult

Kicking from Beyond the 40

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#book #scifi #scififantasy #videogamenovel #videogames #sciencefiction #fantasy

Journey Through the Video Game World

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#book #childrensbook #childrenstreasurehunt #treasurehuntnovel

The Treasure of Milky Lake

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#apple - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1448620464
#google - https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Ashad_Mukadam_The_Treasure_of_Milky_Lake?id=tqGkDwAAQBAJ
#nook - http://barnesandnoble.com/s/2940156218646
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My new book, Xtreme Sabotage, is now available for purchase. If you would like to get the ebook version of it, please click one of the following links:

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#kindle - https://www.amazon.ca/Xtreme-Sabotage-Ashad-Mukadam-ebook/dp/B0F89MC86P/
#apple - https://books.apple.com/us/book/id6745766765
#nook - https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/x/x?ean=2940181813601
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This might leave a mark.

European Parliament to ditch Google for European alternative | Euractiv
#Tech #Google
https://www.euractiv.com/news/european-parliament-to-ditch-google-for-european-alternative/

I use @duckduckgo for search, but I wanted to test #Google AI Search.

And *of course* it doesn't work in #mozilla #Firefox!

I hate it. This is what happens in Enterprise as well. Everything is tested in Chrome.

The man who wrote "Don't be evil" said he chose it specifically so it would be hard to remove. Paul Buchheit, the engineer who later built Gmail, suggested the phrase at a Google corporate values meeting on July 19, 2001.

Then in early 2018, internal documents leaked showing that Google had signed a Pentagon contract to build AI to analyze drone footage. By April, over 3,000 Google employees had signed a letter to Sundar Pichai demanding the contract be cancelled.

The letter specifically cited "Don't be evil" as the standard the company was failing to meet. Dozens of engineers resigned in protest.

Sometime between late April and early May, the slogan disappeared from the code of conduct's preface.

#Google #AI #Tech

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Screenshot of a Wikipedia page: Don't be evil "Don't be evil" was Google's former motto, and a phrase used in Google's corporate code of conduct.[1[21[3][4] In 2018, Google removed the original motto from the preface of its code of conduct, [°]

This commentary on Eric Schmidt's ill-received commencement speech at University of Arizona is spot on:
https://youtu.be/tlQ7EoJDTQY

It is a thoughtful, stern public call-out of a man who had all the power and opportunity to make the right, ethical decisions at Google, but didn't – and who now demands that students inhabiting the technofascist dystopia he helped create go in and fix it.

The booing at that commencement speech was a rare and much-needed moment of accountability for Schmidt.🔥

#Google

@Rycaut thanks for sharing your experience friend! Sounds like gmail sucks 😋

Did not know any of that, most people told me they prefer gmail and like it. What makes you stay? Not like #google is a good corp ;)

We’ll soon get a chance to see whether, frankly, our last hope, evil corp #Google, can still distinguish content created by #AI from Human one 🤖

Here’s how I would rank the detection difficulty:
1️⃣ Text
2️⃣ Code
3️⃣ Images
4️⃣ Gifs
5️⃣ Videos

If they already fail at level 5, we have a SERIOUS problem:
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/youtube-scanning-labeling-ai-slop

#Artificialintelligence #Content #Data #IT #LLM #Model #News #Futurism #Tech #Technology #Detection #Article #Video #Youtube #AIslop #slop #future #internet

I googled a line which a social media post claims is from a translated Egyptian stele to see if there was a better source for it and AI told me to go to L'Avenue (a touristy bistro down the street which I avoid).

#generativeAI #google #epicurious #citation #weredoomed

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Google: Do not weary of drinking, eating, getting intoxicated and making love! Make holiday! Al Overview Cheers to that! It's an excellent philosophy, and if you are looking to put it into action right here in Le Plateau-Mont-Royal, you have some of the best food, drinks, and nightlife in the city right outside your door. Here is a quick guide to making the most of your holiday in the neighborhood: + Epicurean Feasting: For stellar BYOB dining, grab a table at L'Avenue on Mont- Royal for an unforgettable brunch, or head to Schwartz's Deli (just a short walk south) for Montreal's legendary smoked meat. + Drink & Get Intoxicated: The Plateau is famous for its vibrant bar scene. Sip world- class cocktails at L'Gros Luxe, grab a local Quebec craft pint at Vices & Versa on Saint-Laurent, or enjoy a cozy, intimate vibe at Le Lab. + Make Holiday: Take a romantic or leisurely stroll up to the lookout at Mount Royal Park to watch the sunset, then wander the shaded paths of La Fontaine Park. Always pace yourself, and enjoy the holiday!

@Rycaut I'm pretty sure #Google is even the only company that can still fully distinguish #AI content from human one.

baaahh why is literally EVERY app nowadays on #Google Play flagged with "contains ads". I want a filter for "non ad"-apps!!

PC Mag: DuckDuckGo Sees Surge in Installs After Google Goes All-In on AI Search at I/O. “At I/O last week, Google announced its biggest Search upgrade in 25 years, but few seem impressed by its new AI features. Since the event, users have been flocking to DuckDuckGo, a rival search engine that lets them disable AI features altogether.” I hope some of them are checking out the alternatives I […]

#book #ya #youngadult #youngadulttoadult

Kicking from Beyond the 40

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#google - https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Ashad_Mukadam_Kicking_from_Beyond_the_40?id=wqKkDwAAQBAJ
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#book #scifi #scififantasy #videogamenovel #videogames #sciencefiction #fantasy

Journey Through the Video Game World

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