Ok gang, we could all use a laugh, even if it is a deeply dark, we’re all going to die, kinda laugh.

#Google’s #AI thinks the #SCP is real, and is telling people that it is.

The SCP is a collaborative fictional project. Thousands of people have written entries in the SCP. Some have made it to novelization and movies. It’s an incredibly cool project with a lot of amazing writers.

It is fiction, written by people, for people. But the #LLMs have devoured everything, and have no way to discern truth from fiction, ergo…SCP’s Ed’s Head (SCP-565) is presented as a real autonomous underwater brain, and SCP-426, a toaster that can force someone to eat bread until they die.

#Futurism found lots, we’ll find more. It’s very funny to think that some of my monsters may live well beyond the boundaries I created to contain them. Of the millions of my words LLMs have stolen, this is the funniest.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overview-scp-horror-fiction-real

The SCP Foundation: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com

#AIisTheft

From Global News:
"A large cohort of Stanford University students walked out of their graduation ceremony on Monday during Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s keynote address."

"'Shout out to all the graduates who walked out today. To all the graduates who chose conscience rather than comfort, we thank you,' the statement reads.

The group wrote that it walked out in protest of Google’s hand in the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence, saying it would not be lured by 'talk of the dollar' and condemning what it says are 'crimes of Google in collaborating with Israel, ICE and companies like Palantir.'"

https://globalnews.ca/news/11907485/stanford-students-walk-out-google-ceo-ai-protest-graduation/

#NoAI #Google

🚨 Google is now asking you to grant camera access and show your hands to prove you're a human?!

--> I am not a robot tests have officially gone to far.

Just when you think the Big Tech can't get more privacy-invading, it does! 🫣

#Google #verification #privacy

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Screenshot of a Reddit posted titled, "This is getting ridiculous" with a screenshot of Google's gesture with your hand verification system.

https://keepandroidopen.org

#Google's new requirement: starting September 2026, every #Android app developer must register centrally with Google before their software can be installed on any device. Not just Play Store apps: all apps. This includes apps shared between friends, distributed through @fdroidorg from to hobbyists for personal use. Independent developers, church and community groups, and hobbyists alike will all be frozen out of being able to develop and distribute their own software.

Dozens walk out as Google boss addresses Stanford graduates

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqx10gg2r2vo

#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #ethics #corruption #ai #aislop #google

This is the script of my national network radio report yesterday regarding a new German court decision holding Google responsible for their AI Overviews misinformation, and the potential global impact of that decision. As always there may have been minor wording variations from this script as I presented this report live on air.

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Yeah, it's finally happened. A court has directly and strongly pushed back against Google's ridiculous excuses about misinformation that spews from their AI. And while this is a ruling from a German court it is so incredibly well reasoned and written that it is very likely to have significant impact on thinking about these issues around the world, and so could ultimately influence other courts everywhere.

We've talked numerous times about AI hallucinations and misinformation, and this particular case involved Google's notorious AI Overviews. Recent studies have suggested that at Google search scale Google is spewing out hundreds of thousands of incorrect AI Overview answers per minute, tens of millions of inaccurate answers per hour. And Google has consistently tried to evade responsibility for these with disclaimers that "AI can make mistakes" and users should double-check the AI answers.

But pretty much everybody knows, and studies have confirmed, that almost nobody tries to verify those answers that Google presents in a very authoritative, "this is the truth" kind of way. I mean seriously, what's the point of getting an AI Overview answer and then having to go digging around researching to try figure out if it's accurate or not? You might as well have done the research yourself in the first place without having your time wasted by an unreliable AI answer that Google itself tells you not to trust!

Also, when Google provides links in their AI Overview answers that connect to the sites that supposedly relate to the answers, it seems that most of the time you can dig through those sites until the cows come home and be unable to find anything that relates to the Google AI Overview answers themselves.

The German court brilliantly notes all these points and various others. The ruling explains that Google isn't just pointing you at sites where you might find useful information related to your search -- as traditional Google search did for decades -- but rather is creating a wholly new authoritative-seeming answer, an answer that cannot be reasonably attributed to anyone but Google itself.

This kind of determination leads us directly into the kinds of arguments that I and others have long been making, that AI answers should not be exempt from the responsibilities that would come into play if those same kinds of authoritative sounding answers had been issued by a human being at the same Big Tech firm in response to user queries.

The kinds of legal protections in place to shield these firms from being liable for third-party content simply do not reasonably apply to first-party created content like AI Overview answers. And this goes far beyond AI Overviews of course, across the entire realm of Large Language Model AI including also AI chatbots, some of which we know have reportedly been implicated in providing advice involved in both murder and suicide cases. New nightmarish instances like these keep occurring, despite Big Tech claims that they're increasing associated safety protocols.

The German court decision holding Google responsible for AI Overview answers is preliminary and there will likely be appeals of course. But the actual reasoning of the decision is enormously solid and persuasive, and may well end up being the first significant crack in the "we don't care" excuse agenda of Google and the other Big Tech AI firms, irrespective of how this specific German court case proceeds.

And from this crack, perhaps we will start to see more moves to actually protect society from AI abuses rather than governments actively encouraging largely if not completely unregulated AI systems. It's going to be a tough slog, because as we know, many politicians in both parties are terrified of the financial and political power of the major Big Tech firms, and even when a politician will privately admit that, for example, they know a massive new data center is going to ruin a community that they represent, they may not have the courage to actually take a stance against it.

So whether or not we'll ever see Big Tech AI CEOs being held personally, criminally responsible for the worst abuses of their AIs -- imagine if you will CEOs being publicly perp walked in shackles to their new abodes in prisons -- at least holding the firms financially responsible for the damages done by their AI systems would be a step in the right direction.

And it appears that the court in Germany, that just effectively told Google to take their excuses for AI misinformation and stuff them, has finally moved the needle in a positive way. It's still a long, long path ahead, and with the untold hundreds of billions of dollars being poured into AI by Big Tech, the battle to protect society will be long and arduous. But perhaps that German court has now exposed a bit of light at the end of that very long tunnel. We shall see.

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#google #ai

KI in Suchmaschine: Google siegt im ersten Markenstreit über KI-Ergebnisse

Das Landgericht Berlin sieht in KI-generierten Übersichten keine Markenverletzung durch Google. Doch IT-Juristen kritisieren das zugrunde gelegte Nutzerbild.

https://www.heise.de/news/KI-in-Suchmaschine-Google-siegt-im-ersten-Markenstreit-ueber-KI-Ergebnisse-11334653.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Google #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Suchmaschine #Markenrecht #Wirtschaft #news

Google just called its new AI Search the "biggest upgrade in 25 years" but really, it's killing the open web.  😡

The open web was built by millions of people sharing knowledge freely → Now, Google who owns the monopoly on Search is ruining it. 

We wrote about what's really happening, and what you can do about it 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/why-google-ai-search-is-bad

#AI #AISearch #Google 

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Image of old Google with the title "How it started" and an image of the new Google with AI titled, "How it's going" and a text with an arrow pointing at Google's new AI search saying, "This is killing the open web"

Place your bets: will #OpenAI or #Google try to monetize this first-is-best bias? 👆

Given that Google and #Amazon place sponsored content at the top of #SEARCH results, I expect something similar for #AI output someday.

#advertising #enshittification

⚠️ The FSFE has submitted its position to the @EUCommission's Android interoperability consultation under the #DMA

The FSFE is calling for the following, among other things:

🔹 the right to fully uninstall AI-based features from Android devices,

🔸 and access to interoperability functions for developers free from #Google verification requirements

#SoftwareFreedom #FreeSoftware

#book #ya #youngadult #youngadulttoadult

Kicking from Beyond the 40

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#book #scifi

Journey Through the Video Game World

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#book #childrensbook #childrenstreasurehunt #treasurehuntnovel

The Treasure of Milky Lake

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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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Universities have used draconian methods to suppress students' freedom of speech, but the kids can still find ways to express their support for Palestine.

Stanford grads chant and wave Palestinian flags as they walk out on Google & Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai as he begins his commencement speech.

#Palestine #Stanford #Google #SiliconValley #SundarPichai

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/

Google's been killing uBlock Origin in Chrome one flag at a time. Chrome 150 arrives end of June and takes the last workarounds with it. I said in February this was coming. If you haven't already, now's the time to degoogle.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-door-is-shut-finally-completely

#adblockers #blog #browser #chrome #google #mv3 #privacy #ublock #userhostil #degoogle

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/

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."

🔥 رائج

📢 A Critical Turning Point for the AI Chip Supply Chain: The Battle Between Broadcom and Google Is Taking Shape - TMGM

🔗 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMinAFBVV95cUxPZmUwLXZ2U09QY2RMN3ZsQXZjeXN4NmlfakgxQ2ZETmlUVnA3YVpKM2k1c08zZ2c0dUpCUVJQc1FCLW5JeFBjb3A0MEJCOG0xbFJrQWh2Qlc4TnA3ZnhmMGUyaWJQMjdxU01saVRtby0xM3NKSGdXTXRQWjVLS0ZsR01VZzFJSWdBWllaVDdIWmFxaXU2WmFoY0xVZWU?oc=5

#Ai #Google #Critical #Turning #GlobalFeed #News #AR

*تم النشر تلقائيًا بواسطة Global Feed Bot*

🚀

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

At this point shoutout to #ORbooks & #VersoBooks for offering #DRMfree #eBooks and thus being a 'net positive' compared to #Amazon's #Kindle platform.

Because I can just put that #ePub on my device of choice and read it, like an ordinary person.
- Thus making it *more convenient* than a physical book!

And this is where Amazon, #Google, #Apple, #Tolino, etc. all fail:
- They act hostile towards the buyers with their #DRM garbage (that won't even work on #Linux and my devices to begin with!)...

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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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:

#google - https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Ashad_Mukadam_Xtreme_Sabotage?id=ILNcEQAAQBAJ
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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/