This has been reported. 

Well that sucks, i do happen to agree with google this time, on forming a business alliance with Israel.

 "Google staffers wearing traditional Arab headscarves barged into the California office of the company’s top cloud executive, while other workers staged a sit-in at the company’s headquarters in New York City to protest the tech giant’s ties to the Israeli government on Tuesday. 

The pro-Palestinian employees, part of a group called “No Tech for Apartheid,” used social media accounts on X and Twitch to post images and live video of their takeover of the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based office of Thomas Kurian, the CEO of Google Cloud."

Pictures of them being hauled out by cops, all wearing masks so they cant be ID'd and fired on the spot.

Well. they just fired them.. Im impressed.  28 of them at this point.

and related, but not google, last week a pro Palestine protest on a college campus police action and arrests, called in by the school staff...  arrests including omar's daughter. 

When even the fundamentally woke entities like google and colleges are getting tired of it.. its a good sign.

Sat Apr 20 2024 11:50:15 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

It's a start. Maybe we've hit the peak of this nonsense.

I know i have been called silly for thinking it, but i still predict walled gardens for email, someday. 

Everyone should be prepared to defend their hill, whatever it takes. If not, is it really theirs ?

Still looking for something 'hard' to reference, but was reading that several news outlets are pissed at googles plans to soon give you AI driven results first, instead of links to sources like it does now.  

"google is going to put us out of business as no one will click a link to read a story if its already there in black and white" ( paraphrased slightly )

Also ripe for that word i hate, 'disinformation' as you cant just believe what an AI says without research ( any more than you can a person, or a single news source )..  Even me, the AI promoter I am, knows this. AI is not infallible and its datasets can be easily manipulated during training.. 

I consider it fair use. No different than if i read the original myself, and then tell you a summary. 

I'm a hard core 'knowledge should be free and not just for the elite' advocate. 

Thu May 16 2024 20:37:07 EDT from zelgomer

Another angle to look at that one: where does it get its info from to generate the results? Like I said on some other thread around here: AI is automated plagiarism.

If I ran a website on the clear net, at this point I'd be tempted to block search engine crawlers.

I get the impression they are going it make it 'less appealing' or 'harder' to look for the actual source so that most people wont bother. Not just a little blurb at the top, but active steering away from sources.   I would suspect tho that perhaps some ad blockers will help filter it out.  Donno. Not there yet.

AI in our daily lives is just getting started. Not that its new,  but we have not seen anything yet, so dont get your hopes up that its just a fad, any more than the internet was, or electric light..... The Cylons are coming... 

I heard Wendy's is replacing their drive thru order takers with AI....  Which may not be a bad thing, since so many of them are kids that are nearly illiterate and incomprehensible anyway...

( and i know i have said it before, while i DO totally agree that just like with humans, their training can be easily manipulated and in many cases is and one must use caution, its not all of them, some are far 'better' than others )

Fri May 17 2024 11:20:07 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

Some search engines are already including "AI" summaries at the top of their search results.

I'm really hoping the "AI" craze dies down soon because I'm sick of it. The summaries are awful and usually just ripped from the first couple of search results anyway. And as everyone knows, the "AI" is only trained from "approved" sources that have "disinformation" removed from them.

Dammit. I'm gonna have to put my SearxNG intance back up.

Not really. I tend to ignore them all. Been too much fake for too long to pay attention to them.

Sat May 18 2024 15:13:43 EDT from darknetuser

Have you noticed the avalanche of cheap listicles,reviews that only cover the basics of the item, and automatically generated reviews? T

Tho related to the email thread, it is gmail..

Every week or 2 i go in to clear out the inbox on my gmail of all the garbage.  I dont actually use it, but its needed for my Chromebook .. ( and i suspect YouTube, tho that is irrelevant now ). I also have a few old mailing lists that go there that i dont care about enough to change. AND anytime i get a text message it goes there... 

its empty. not one message for a week. not even spam.   

Tried a test from my home account.. never made it ( no bounce message either ).   Tried from the office, it got thru, so the account itself isn't disabled or something. 

I guess those changes they did recently really broke things for the rest of the world. Build that garden wall ..