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[ Google Issues ] In other news, as the country falls into a fascist pit of Hell aided by #Google, the firm just announced a new "brighter" G logo.
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[ Google Issues ] The YouTube index and "Goodbye Charlie"
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[ Google Issues ] Why Google AI Overview answers appear to be getting worse
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[ Google Issues ] Long Time Tech Writer Steven Levy: "I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong"
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[ Google Issues ] MIT: Tracking and classifying incidents of harm from AI
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[ Google Issues ] Google-AI generated YouTube channel uploaded nothing but videos of women being shot
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[ Google Issues ] WARNING REGARDING GOOGLE/ALPHABET
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[ Google Issues ] Alphabet goes full MAGA, blames Biden for YouTube bans, will reverse permanent bans to satisfy Trump
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[ Google Issues ] Using Big Tech AI Tools in the fascist U.S. or other countries is a trap
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[ Google Issues ] [Yeah, blame the Wi-Fi, not the AI!] Zuck's Meta AI Demo Crashes and Burns
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[ Google Issues ] Banner on my blog pages
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[ Google Issues ] "Free Speech" Bluesky is suspending users for mundane negative comments about Charlie Kirk
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[ Google Issues ] Script of my national radio report yesterday on why there isn't so much excitement about new smartphone introductions these days
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[ Google Issues ] In the public mind, AI (e.g. chatbots) are being rapidly relegated to the access status of porn sites. Consider yourself warned, Big Tech.
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[ Google Issues ] After outrage over teen suicides, ChatGPT will in some cases require you to show your ID.
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[ Google Issues ] BREAKING: Trump says he's bringing $15B lawsuit against New York Times for saying mean things about him
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[ Google Issues ] [Yeah, those pesky facts get in the way, huh?] Google exec defends AI answers, says users are shifting away from wanting "facts"
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[ Google Issues ] Hundreds of Google AI Workers Were Fired Amid Fight Over Working Conditions
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[ Google Issues ] Topic for my national radio segment Monday: Smartphone announcements met with yawns
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[ Google Issues ] Google faces its first AI Overviews lawsuit from a major US publisher
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[ Google Issues ] The First Law of AI: It doesn't matter how often AI gives correct answers, it's the times it gives authoritatively worded wrong answers that can destroy lives.
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[ Google Issues ] Script of my national radio report yesterday on penalties in the Google antitrust case and what they may mean for Google and everyone else
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[ Google Issues ] Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on promise of autonomy
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[ Google Issues ] Good will for Google running out
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[ Google Issues ] More nightmares from Google: The "let us help you cheat" school popup in Chrome
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[ Google Issues ] EFF: Axon's Police Report AI appears designed to confuse what humans and AI wrote in reports
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[ Google Issues ] Why is AI Search so fascist friendly?
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[ Google Issues ] Adding to my national radio topic for tomorrow: Why Google making "AI Search" the default is evil and would decimate the open Web
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[ Google Issues ] [UTTERLY EVIL FASCISM] In futherance of their efforts to destroy the Web, Google plans to make their horrific misinformation AI mode the default "soon" -- wiping out billions of dollars of web creators' efforts
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[ Google Issues ] Topic for my national radio tech segment tomorrow: Judge's penalty decision in Google antitrust case
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[ Google Issues ] Tech execs at Trump dinner praise the Fascist, just like execs praised Hitler in the 20th century. NO DIFFERENCE.
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[ Google Issues ] On hot mic, Zuckerberg seems to reveal giving scripted answer to Trump question on AI spending
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[ Google Issues ] What -- or who -- is on the menu when you're a Big Tech Billionaire having dinner with a fascist would-be dictator, one wonders. Kiss up to him boys. You know where.
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[ Google Issues ] CHOW DOWN WITH THE FASCISM: BREAKING: Fascist Trump dining with the Billionaire Boys' Club Big Tech CEOs tonight!
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[ Google Issues ] Script of my national radio report yesterday regarding the involvement of AI chatbots in a recent murder-suicide and a teen suicide
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[ Google Issues ] The disgrace continues: AT&T exiting the long distance business
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[ Google Issues ] BREAKING: [I support these decisions] In big win for Google, judge does NOT order them to sell off Chrome or Android
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[ Google Issues ] This evening on my national radio tech segment: Big Tech AI directly involved in teen suicide and a murder suicide
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[ Google Issues ] Script of my national radio report last Monday discussing communities pushing back on the construction of massive data centers
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[ Google Issues ] A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich
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[ Google Issues ] Anthropic chatbot used for massive cybercrime spree
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[ Google Issues ] This coming Monday on my national radio tech segment: How ChatGPT helped a teen commit suicide
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[ Google Issues ] OpenAI's Sam Altman and Prison
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[ Google Issues ] You just know that if ChatGPT had arms, it would have helped put the noose around that kid's neck. They're probably working on that.
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[ Google Issues ] Accused Minneapolis shooter reportedly identified, along with manifesto posted on YouTube and more
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[ Google Issues ] So now AI is helping to kill children. We knew this would happen. Big Tech Billionaire CEOs don't give a f*ck.
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[ Google Issues ] New AI browser agents create risks if sites hijack them with hidden instructions
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[ Google Issues ] The CEO of Open AI should tried for accessory to murder -- OpenAI responds to ChatGPT helping a teen commit suicide
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[ Google Issues ] AI Firms must be held 100% responsible
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[ Google Issues ] And yes, for lack of a better term, and speaking generally, I consider LLM Generative AI to be garbage, and often extremely dangerous and damaging garbage.
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[ Google Issues ] Alphabet (Google) closes down medical devices unit to pour money into garbage AI
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[ Google Issues ] Phishing emails now leveraging Google AI
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[ Google Issues ] Stanford Study: AI is destroying job prospects for younger workers especially in computing
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[ Google Issues ] Google's new fascist-friendly policies
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[ Google Issues ] When it comes to Google's new sideloading restrictions, think of someone other than yourself!
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[ Google Issues ] Claiming it's pro-security, Google plans to restrict sideloading to "verified developers"
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[ Google Issues ] Google says it's not AI, but YouTube is altering uploaded videos without permission
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[ Google Issues ] Topic for my Monday national radio tech segment: Communities fighting back against data center plans
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[ Google Issues ] Bluesky blocks all Mississippi IP addresses over age verification law
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[ Google Issues ] Hold the AI firms responsible! - AI-generated misinformation can create confusion and hinder responses during emergencies
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[ Google Issues ] What AI firms really think about AI (in my opinion)
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[ Google Issues ] Making AI firms responsible by law
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[ Google Issues ] Famous religious right figure dies, but Google AI Overviews authoritatively deny it -- Google's misinformation machine at work
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[ Google Issues ] Dear Mozilla, take your Firefox AI and shove it where the sun doesn't shine!
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[ Google Issues ] Lauren's Blog: Separating the Chrome Browser From Google Could Be Terrible for Billions of Users
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[ Google Issues ] UK backs down on demand for Apple to provide back door to Americans' encrypted data
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[ Google Issues ] Script of my national radio report yesterday on why separating the Chrome Browser from Google could be terrible for the vast numbers of Chrome users
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[ Google Issues ] Here we go! - UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole
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[ Google Issues ] Novel 5G Attack Bypasses Need for Malicious Base Station
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[ Google Issues ] Google AI Overview directs user to fake customer service number that scammed him
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[ Google Issues ] The billionaire Big Tech CEOs said "Learn how to code!" ... and then ...
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[ Google Issues ] On YouTube Movies & TV: "Phantom of the Paradise"
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[ Google Issues ] On YouTube Movies & TV: "The French Connection"
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[ Google Issues ] With an ~35 billion dollar offer, Perplexity would be paying about $10 for every Chrome user. That IS what Perplexity wants to buy, THE USERS.
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[ Google Issues ] Correction: Offers on Chrome - Perplexity 34.5, Search.com 35 billion
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[ Google Issues ] Topic for my usual upcoming Monday national radio tech segment: Why separating Google and the Chrome browser would likely be a privacy disaster
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[ Google Issues ] [That most people DON'T WANT!] OpenAI's Altman says he wants to spend trillions of dollars on AI
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[ Google Issues ] More on Google Search's new "preferred sources"
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[ Google Issues ] Supreme Court Allows Mississippi Law on Children's Use of Social Media, for Now
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[ Google Issues ] Some doctors got worse at detecting cancer after relying on AI
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[ Google Issues ] Steve Bellovin: Privacy-Preserving Age Verification - and Its Limitations
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[ Google Issues ] Was Google pressured by fascist Trump into their new "search sources" feature?
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[ Google Issues ] Gmail scams
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[ Google Issues ] The worst security/privacy risk in the history of the Internet
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[ Google Issues ] [JUST TURN OFF THE GODDAMNED AI!] UK Government urges people to delete old emails and photos to "reduce stress on data centers during drought"
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[ Google Issues ] BREAKING: Perplexity AI Wants to Buy Google Chrome for $34.5 Billion: Report
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[ Google Issues ] The AI firms want you to ...
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[ Google Issues ] Age verification is about fascism
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[ Google Issues ] Software engineering unemployment rates
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[ Google Issues ] I am not in a good mood: My national network radio topic tonight, how Big Tech treats us like ...
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[ Google Issues ] A note about these audio podcast tests ...
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[ Google Issues ] Audio-only podcast with Live Chat: The Internet age verification train wreck, maybe some Star Trek, other topics that come up -- 11 AM PDT today
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[ Google Issues ] YouTube AI Slop
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[ Google Issues ] YouTube starts guessing your age on August 13 -- please email me if they screw you up
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[ Google Issues ] By and large, Big Tech considers their employees and all but their most lucrative customers to be expendable and beneath contempt
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[ Google Issues ] BREAKING: Tesla suddenly terminates Dojo AI project, key to autonomous driving according to Musk -- 20 members of team have gone to DensityAI
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[ Google Issues ] "Super Dangerous" - Google AI makes up body part that doesn't exist in humans
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[ Google Issues ] Google now returns NO AI Overview for Trump convictions query!
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[ Google Issues ] [Extracting data from Google Drive] A Single Poisoned Document Could Leak "Secret" Data Via ChatGPT
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[ Google Issues ] Microsoft's plan to fix the web with AI has already hit an embarrassing security flaw
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[ Google Issues ] Researchers use calendar events to hack Gemini, control smart home gadgets
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[ Google Issues ] Google AI continues to insist Trump has never been convicted of any crimes
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[ Google Issues ] Google businesses data has been hacked
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[ Google Issues ] Google claims Trump has not been convicted of any crimes
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[ Google Issues ] Leaked ChatGPT Conversations Show People Asking the Bot to Do Some Dirty Work
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[ Google Issues ] [The Horrible Billionaire CEOs] Big Tech goes all in for Big Military and Big Death
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[ Google Issues ] AI Meeting Summarizers are creating often embarrassing AI Slop
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[ Google Issues ] Nearly 100, 000 ChatGPT Conversations [including sensitive info] Were Searchable on Google
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[ Google Issues ] Cloudflare accuses Perplexity AI of evading no-crawl directives
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[ Google Issues ] BREAKING: Due to privacy concerns, OpenAI working to remove ChatGPT chats from Google Search
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[ Google Issues ] Make that goog.gl -> goo.gl
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[ Google Issues ] Google reverses, won't turn off goog.gl short links active since late last year
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[ Google Issues ] Why Google AI Overviews have become so intrusive and creepy
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[ Google Issues ] Lauren's Blog: The Website Age Verification Train Wreck
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[ Google Issues ] More on YouTube's TV user interface train wreck
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[ Google Issues ] More on terrible YouTube changes
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[ Google Issues ] Script of my national radio report yesterday on the train wreck of age verification systems
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[ Google Issues ] Google won't say if UK secretly demanded a backdoor for user data
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[ Google Issues ] YouTube HORRIBLE new TV interface
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[ Google Issues ] Tonight on my usual Monday evening national network radio tech segment, I'll be discussing the train wreck of age verification systems for websites.
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[ Google Issues ] An AI-powered coding tool wiped out a software company's database, then apologized for a 'catastrophic failure on my part'
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[ Google Issues ] As predicted! - Hack of Age Verification Company Shows Privacy Danger of Social Media Laws
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[ Google Issues ] AI coding assistants chase phantoms, destroy real user data
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[ Google Issues ] Script of my national radio report yesterday on Big Tech's push toward nightmarish "AI Agents" and more
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[ Google Issues ] Google AI Overviews are getting CREEPY
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[ Google Issues ] Administrivia: Hashtags
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[ Google Issues ] AI is the "Pet Rock" of fascist billionaires. Look it up, kids.
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[ Google Issues ] Topic for my next Monday evening national network radio tech segment:
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[ Google Issues ] Garbage AI Overviews from Google
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[ Google Issues ] I believe I've found the Gemini-centric "smart features" controls in Gmail
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[ Google Issues ] And even if you have Gmail "smart features" off, your email can STILL end up inside Gemini
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[ Google Issues ] WARNING: GOOGLE IS TRYING TO TRICK YOU INTO USING GEMINI AI AND FEEDING GEMINI YOUR DATA IN GMAIL AND OTHER APPS!
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[ Google Issues ] Google AI for phone scams
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[ Google Issues ] Google now letting Gemini call businesses for you -- luckily it identifies itself so businesses can hang up fast
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[ Google Issues ] ICEBlock "anonymity" called into question due to data that Apple has
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[ Google Issues ] Script of my national radio report yesterday on Google pushing AI onto users whether they want it or not
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[ Google Issues ] Warning regarding sites.google.com and phishing attacks
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[ Google Issues ] Big Tech Billionaire CEO's AI data centers are leaving people without water -- and the CEOs couldn't care less
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[ Google Issues ] 'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers
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[ Google Issues ] AI: The second most dangerous tech ever created
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[ Google Issues ] "AI APPRECIATION DAY"
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[ Google Issues ] Generative AI. So many great choices!
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[ Google Issues ] Grok AI goes full Nazi, spewing antisemitic garbage and praise for Hitler and his actions
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[ Google Issues ] Script of my national radio report yesterday re how drastic cutbacks in federal science research, etc. can cost lives due to extreme weather, and more
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[ Google Issues ] YouTube says it will be updating monetization rules on July 15 to define and restrict inauthentic, mass-produced, or repetitious content
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[ Google Issues ] My national radio topic for tomorrow (Monday): How funding cutbacks are increasing risks to lives and property from weather events
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[ Google Issues ] What Google has done to Android phone users with Gemini should be illegal
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[ Google Issues ] Enough of Google's Gemini bullsh*t
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[ Google Issues ] Google pushes Gemini AI in much the same way the stereotypical drug pusher pushes their wares.
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[ Google Issues ] EU antitrust complaint against Google AI Overviews
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[ Google Issues ] I should have thought of this before: "AI Vampires" -- it's the perfect shorthand for generative AI taking data from sites and giving nothing in return.
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[ Google Issues ] How Duke University has been fighting AI vampires
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[ Google Issues ] [Cloudflare] Free Lunch Is Over for the AI That Broke the Web
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[ Google Issues ] Actual concentration camps are being built in this country, and I still see people spending their time trying to figure out how to block ads on YouTube. DISGUSTING.
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[ Google Issues ] There's a lot of confusion about Google forcing Gemini onto Android users, but yes, it's very bad
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[ Google Issues ] More on ICE tracking app -- fakes and challenges
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