This All Makes Sense

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until you learn the lesson

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CARGO

3D animation / No Gen AI

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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.

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the virgin loss.jpg versus the chad xkcd Seven Years

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[ms-demeanor]

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Don’t forget the latest version, Ten Years

[a-real-human-person-not-fake]

@vividaway​ Randall Munroe is an internet cartoonist who runs the ‘xkcd’ online comic series, which has run from 2006 up to today, with new comics every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Xkcd isn’t an ongoing story, just a series of funny, wholesome, depressing, or oddly scientifically informative comics.

In 2010, Randall’s fiance was diagnosed with stage III breast cancer. He didn’t share too many details at first, but things tended to bleed into his comics: sometimes funny, sometimes sad.

Often in this time, other cartoonists would write in guest comics for Randall, or he’d put in short filler pieces, to try and fill space while nonstop cancer treatments took up most of his time.

In 2012, he posted a comic called ‘Two Years’, about the time since the diagnosis. It’s the one that hasn’t yet been posted here (although parts of it are included in the other comics), and it commemorates some of the things that had happened in the two years since the diagnosis.

There are representations of Randall and his fiance being together for her treatment, worrying together, traveling the world, and getting married. It’s still depressing, but it’s a lot more hopeful, showing how they’ve still managed to have happy moments together, and things will still get better.

Themes of cancer continued in xkcd, but they increasingly became less about fear and nihilism, and more about hope, or just cool facts related to cancer.

At the top of this post is the comic posted in 2017: Seven Years. In it, Randall and his wife are traveling more, trying to have fun and continue old and new hobbies, with cancer ever-present in the background of it all. At the end, the two of them observe the 2017 solar eclipse, and despite all the uncertainty that comes with the thought of another seven years, agree to watch the 2024 eclipse together too.

There are just about no cancer comics between that one and the most recent comic, the one I posted: Ten Years, written in 2020. It’s by far the most hopeful of the three in the little series: the two of them are happy, they’re playing with rabbits and riding on handcarts and going out hiking and stargazing, together. At the end, Ten Years breaks the format with a conversation in which they talk about how unbelievable it is that it’s been so long, and share their worries as well as their hopes. It even ends on a much more lighthearted joke about immortality.

It’s a good comic. Definitely in my top two comics wherein internet cartoonists express emotions about an illness suffered by their wife.

“The ten-year cancerversary is traditionally the Cursed Artifact Granting Immortality anniversary.” -Randall Munroe.

[a-real-human-person-not-fake]

And now, at long last, Fifteen Years:

[rainformation]

formative years? aren’t they all?

[absolutejamer]

show me a permanent self and i will show you a facade or a corpse

[catchyvideos]

OP rachaelblanchard29 on TikTok ♡

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when you are eating chips you will often be like well how about one more chip? and then you will eat one more chip and be like well how about one more chip? and what do you think happens after that?

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This just pissed me off so baaaad 😂

[anarchistmemedistro]

AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt

Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.

[megaceros]

love that energy

[fairycosmos]

i really don’t have the time to be the way i am

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Cool cool cool ok cool

THIS k-ID??

Discord: Attackers accessed about 70,000 user photo IDs

: No word on why the outsourced supplier was storing this data in the first place

oh hey btw

Same company verifies mugshots for ChatGPT, and offers 269 surveillance checks for US government

The identity verification company used by ChatGPT and other major services accidentally exposed its government-authorized platform, which is

1 billion identity records exposed in ID verification data leak - CyberGuy

A massive unsecured database tied to an identity verification provider exposed national IDs, addresses and phone numbers.

Discord ID data breach: Why the world isn't ready for age verification laws | Proton

A huge ID photo breach at Discord shows that age verification laws should not be enforced until robust privacy protections are in place.

and um hey also

Researchers Expose Persona: Age Verification Company Files Reports on Users to Federal Agencies - State of Surveillance

Security researchers revealed that Persona—the Peter Thiel-backed company verifying ages for Discord, Reddit, and Roblox—performs 269 survei

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A Crane assembling another crane

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[trufflesmushroom]

patricia lockwood has officially completed 6 years of her full 1000 year sentence

[neshamama]

so weird leftists don't call out big food more remember when nestlé was responsible for over 10 million infant deaths in low and middle income countries i do

[neshamama]

report

[neshamama]

or the death and disease they have meticulously inflicted on the most vulnerable of brazil while undermining public health policy and education

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Welp.

Toothache from eating something cold? Blame these ancient fish

New research on fossils shows that teeth first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish.

And now, every day I need to brush my teeth with Sensodyne. Thanks, fish.