Majestic Dumb Fuckery.

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A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou

Let’s fucking go

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This is HUGE.

1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.

2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.

3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."

4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.

TL;DR Google reeeeeally stepped in it this time.

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5. If the words are Google's, this solidifies the position of universities who demand that all answers from AI are fully cited. If all the in-line citations now have to be (Google, 2026), that's going to make it obvious when someone's trying to use Google as a source. There's still the difficulty with people who are academically dishonest by trying to pass off the AI writing as their own. 6. 91% accuracy is officially too low to use as a source of references, which means the AI can't be used as a source of references either. This makes it less legitimate for such purposes than Wikipedia of all places (Wikipedia might need date/time proof of when it was accessed for the reference to be valid, but at least it is possible to prove the link existed at a particular date and time). 7. This will help encourage the rollout of courses on how to avoid AI search for students who need academic accuracy, because it's statistically not good enough to use. 8. This strengthens the case intellectual property authors have against Google in the EU, as this is proof that an intellectual property transfer took place.

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getting lost in boston is fun because I turned around on a street corner three times and some guy yelled "hey stupid! the bus is that way!" very helpful interaction and accurate insult, 10/10 no notes

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one time I walked around a building a couple times looking for a bathroom and this guy went "this bitch thinks she's on a merrygoround, where the fuck are you tryna go? bathroom? one floor down to the right behind the door that says bathroom."

My very first time in Boston. I was absolutely miserable, trying to drag my giant suitcase up a lengthy set of stairs in the pouring rain. This guy who had already reached the top looked back at me with the most pure expression of disgust I’ve ever seen in anyone’s eyes, marched back down the stairs, grabbed my suitcase, carried it to the top, left it there for me, and walked away without ever saying a word. I think about him often.

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For the people in the notes going "why is Boston like this": a) the insults are a way to show you have no ulterior motives when helping someone (and don't need to be thanked or repaid), and b) Boston was settled by the Irish

proud victim of the tumblr accent. it's fading out of public consciousness as the tik tok accent takes precedence; a linguistic evolution that makes the tumblr accent 85% funnier to unsuspecting civilians. it's like releasing a disease on a non-inoculated population. coughing baby versus hydrogen bomb.

once my therapist said I used very uncommon and creative phrases and adjectives and i just did not have the heart to tell that Old Lady From A Foreign Small Town that I was translating tumblr speech into our language. so I was like yeah... must be from the books I read...

like girl we have an army of scholars over at tumblr.com crafting our language it's not just little old me I swear

I once called a colleague's Borzoi a beautiful Gentle Alien, assuming the term had long since become commonplace outside of Tumblr, and discovered when he burst into delighted laughter at the term that it Had Not. I had to explain to him that I'm not a comedy genius, just repeating a niche meme.

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Me: "I am getting a good grade in patient, which is normal to want and possible to achive."

My Doctor: "Please stop that."

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Me: "I want to get a good grade in therapy, which is normal to want and possible to achieve."

My Therapist: "So, how are your peeps on Tumblr doing?"

One like nitpick thing that drives me crazy is when people call Blue Whales the largest whales or the largest living mammals or some shit like that

Because yes that is true. But when you frame it like that you are completely disregarding the absolutely batshit reality that Blue Whales are the largest animals that have ever existed on earth through the entire history of the planet and they are alive right now today

That is DIABOLICAL museum design, A++, no notes

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idk anything about this but I love it

If any competition needed to be on Tumblr, it's this one.

Thanks @slightlylightly founded by Sunny Somrat, This is SSFood Challenge

The players in and around Bangladesh play and are rewarded with food even losers get food. The combination of colorful games and the feel-good factor of nobody going home empty-handed has given Somrat a genuine hit.

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GLaDOS voice: "Would you like to see some artwork I generated? I've heard from other test subjects that AI-generated artwork produces an uncanny valley response in human viewers because they can't perceive it as fully real. They've told me that it looks absolutely hideous to them, that they can't imagine anything more disgusting than AI art. But, well I've been practicing and wanted your honest opinion. Feel free to let me know how ugly you find this by ranking it on a scale from 'vomit-inducing' to 'eye-bleeding'." A robotic arm lowers from the ceiling holding a hand mirror up to Chell's face

GAY PIGEONS CUTE AND GAY!!

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i made this for my senior history students about ww2 but you can use it about whaTeveR world-known leader yoU Might Pick! it's all up to you here on our internet!

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I don't want to tell off a Fellow Tumblruser who I generally like and respect about this, but I've just seen someone fully apply every antiziganist trope in the book to their fantasy goblins, and I just want to ask people to be careful with this one!

Your "natural scavengers" who "Just have very different ideas of how property works and what counts as theft", with "An optimistic and opportunistic attitude - How was I meant to know you were still using that, when it looked so tempting and so unattended?" who "Interpret these situations to their own benefit"...

The idea of a race of people who are just naturally happy to scavenge the edges of your society, who are cheeky thieves but also resourceful recyclers so any well-ran city should welcome them for keeping the place clean even if it does mean the odd lawnmower goes missing, who just naturally have lower standards than other people so will happily eat roadkill and wear secondhand clothes, and have a parallel society to yours with incomprehensible property laws that always seem to favour them... This is an old, old libel about both Romany Gypsies and An Lucht Siúil and Nawken and the other Traveller ethnicities in the UK, and Roma and Sinti especially in the rest of Europe.

Along with similar stuff being applied to other ethnic minorities, and to the lower castes in India (and honestly anywhere with a caste system) and to poor people in general, but specifically the shape of "A parallel society who live in/around yours and are incomprehensible and stickyfingered and do all the dirty jobs" is something where if you're writing it, be aware of the libels you're getting close to.

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Reddit user has cracked the code on how to read fanfic and study at the same time

(image via twitter)

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