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I am sort of frustrated about that post I made about Google Gemini giving an AI summary of Tumblr users if you google a URL because it quickly turned into a long post where people started sharing all the things the AI got wrong about them, and I'm not saying it isn't good for a laugh when an AI is wrong, but I feel like people are missing the point. Who cares if the AI offers information about you that's wrong? What's worrying is all the information the AI got right.

That initial accidental google I did of a mutual returned an AI summary that was absolutely correct, and featured information about them that would not have been obvious from a quick perusal of their blog. The first few times I googled myself the AI overview was 100% correct. The version of that post that is circulating is not the one where I shared that the AI gave me someone's real name. I had hoped that it had screwed up and it wasn't their real name after all, but no, I checked with them, and just by googling someone's Tumblr URL, I got their honest to goodness legal name. Do you have any idea how dangerous that is? Like yeah I get that it's fun to go, "Haha, AI bad at collecting information," but that's not the problem. The problem is that sometimes AI good at collecting information, and it can collect a lot more a lot faster than a normal human can, by running multiple searches simultaneously and cross-referencing a lot of different documents all in a few seconds, for a level of snooping that would take a real person hours or even days, if they could do it at all.

That is so dangerous and I need people to be angrier about the fact that Google thinks it's okay to let their AI do this for online users. If you google your legal name and you're not already famous the AI won't say shit. Because that would be creepy and invasive! So why does Google think it's all hunky dory to do it for random internet users?

apollomission8

If you're reading this and thinking that sounds incredibly scary/unsafe, please go into your blog settings and make sure the setting to discourse external searching is turned on!!!!

^ it should look like this ^

I've had that setting on for a long time. When I saw this post I tried googling my account and no AI summary appeared. I decided to experiment, and I turned that setting off and googled my url again–that time the AI summary appeared. It got a lot wrong, but it did get some things right, and had a concerning amount of information considering a few minutes before the AI summary didn't even appear. It also had the state I live in listed, accurately. That's not something I'm super secretive about, I have said it on here before, but it's also not something I necessarily want an AI telling someone umpromted just because they Googled my URL–frankly I think it's absolutely insane that the AI is able to do that without people questioning it. I quickly turned the discourage external searching setting back on, and I'm no longer getting the AI overviews. But it's definitely something we all should be aware of–especially on other social media sites that don't have that feature.

defectivegembrain

[ID: screenshot of a setting turned to the on position. It reads:

Discourage external searching of apollomission8

External search engines like Google or Yahoo will be discouraged from indexing your blog and showing it in search results. It is ultimately up to them to honor your request.

Link text next to this reads: Learn more]

mathsbian

You have to do this individually for each blog you own.

rrevvenant

i will die for silverv

my-dailydreams

somethingusefulfromflorida

blignick

satchels-and-socks

UNMUTE 💯 🥺

still alive just having medical issues and writers block and Life Suck

ororium-z

Happy Pride!

rootbeergoddess

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

penis-peeper

“no kink at pride!!!” “no leather at pride!!!!” “no bears at pride!!!!” “no nudity at pride!!!!” “no slurs at pride!!!”

just stay home and watch an MCU movie bro

penis-peeper

‘’ PRIDE SHOULD BE KID SAFE!!!!!’’ I agree. every transphobe who wants to control trans kids bodies should be shot on sight.

oh you meant you’re afraid of leather. fucking lame go die

superhighschoolleveldespair

insane 67-dollar phone at target

so im at target right now doing christmas shopping with my dad and?? there’s just this… 67 dollar phone? not even like 69.99 or something but 67?? nnone of the other phones are like this??

see you guys in ten years when EVERYTHING is 67 i guess LMAO

superhighschoolleveldespair

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tailsbot98761

wakingfromthewater

Still thinking about this mobile game ad I got. You will f**k increasingly large creatures.

atoyforjuliette

You click on it and it's like 3 pages of her parents killing her dog and preventing her from graduating medical school at the last minute by putting her into a coma with her sister's insulin so that her sister can use her college fund to support the three kids the protagonist's ex fiance put into her home wrecking womb and then abandoned to go marry the protagonist's high school bully who has been paying the family for years to steal the protagonist's poems that she has been releasing as her own because her incredibly wealthy family wanted her to be a poet. The protagonist leaps off a building and then is reborn and this time she is going to have sex with a bunch of monsters but there is no one tentacle porn scene you have to pay 9.99 per 500 word chapter and the tentacle porn unlocks somewhere around chapter 300.

magicalgirlcrazycatlady

Thank you for your sacrifice.

cuunos

being a kid and hearing adults say stuff like "woah 2011 was 4 years ago haha" didn't really convey the fucking horror of a youtube video crossing my recommended labelled "9 years ago" and it's from 2017. that's not true. 9 years ago is 2010 or something. don't lie.

eymurn

do you ever get secondhand happiness? like someone is happy so you're happy because they're happy

reallyndacarter

It's June 1. It's time.

Go be gay.

fullyerecteggplant

tinyyellowflowers-blog

After school care pulled me aside about my child dropping an f-bomb “without remorse” and I put on my concerned face and nodded a bunch.

Apparently he was building something with a younger kid “who really looks up to him and is just starting to make friends” and said “Hey, you’re really fucking good at this.” which is, in my estimation, really a parenting victory.

tinyyellowflowers-blog

I absolutely failed at doing this:

gruvu

Been reblogging the same boxing pic with Crimm for the last few years and figured I would try again after so long. Man Crimm is getting a comeback this year. It's been so long. But he was my first trans oc and he means a lot to me. Hope ya all treat yourselves!