S I N C E R I T Y

27// she/her // latinx // canada ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[smores-sless]

sometimes I just want ppl to tell me I’m pretty. It’s to heal my childhood trauma or sumthing idek

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

it’s okay if your future goals are like “still be alive then” and “find happiness” and “have a will to live”

[sztupy]

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

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

[ayeforscotland]

Let’s fucking go

[made-in-manetheren]

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.

[macleod]

This massively helps the current antitrust investigation that was filed with the European Commission last year, and comes after the UK ordered Google (Alphabet) to allow websites, authors, and publishers to opt-out of using their materials to generate AI Overviews and for training purposes while also requiring them to properly cite their materials (which could be a hard thing to follow with how LLMs operate on weighted values).

[deathgasmic]

am i allowed to text friends i have not spoken to in awhile or will they gather and beat me with sticks send post

[catchymemes]

They supporting

[heavenhillgirl]

[iwashandpicked]

aside from being in constant anguish i’m doing quite alright

[meda-igual]

ni me importa (llora por dentro)

[scribeherself]

Fresh strawberries in a ceramic bowl, sun-warmed skin & open windows, iced coffee condensation on your fingers, picking flowers from your garden just because, the smell of rain on pavement, and everything green & growing.

[mabeltanaka]

The Good Place Chapter 47: The Funeral to End All Funerals

[echoesofsaturn]

I don't want my life to be a perpetual load of trying to recover from something after something and someone after someone. I don't want recovery to be all that I am.

[ct-lambykins]

i feel so horrible and corrupt and dirty, i want to rip all my disgusting skin off and start a new

[unwelcome-ozian]

[girlzoid]

i dont "struggle" with isolation, i'm actually soooooo super fucking good at it

[snoopylovessoup]

I love you, day and night

[stood-onthecliffside]

[dragon-in-a-fez]

keep thinking about how I wrote in my dissertation about how every time a new form of public/social space emerges it's immediately popular with kids and teenagers who see it as a chance at freedom and then adults colonise it and kick them out. this happened with malls in the 80s and diners in the 50s and pool halls in the 20s. my dad was doing research on this trend in like 1975. and I was like "yeah so this is going to happen to the internet" and then five years later every government suddenly decided to ban kids from everywhere online. I hate being right especially when I don't even get paid for it

[dragon-in-a-fez]

as much as I would love for y'all to read my dissertation it would obviously doxx me to post the link/title here, so I probably won't share (unless a longtime mutual messages privately about it). BUT what I can do is tell you about my academic idols - Henry Jenkins, Mimi Ito, and danah boyd - and tell you to go read their stuff, starting with a book they co-wrote called Participatory Culture in a Networked Era