@dangillmor Amazing they haven't modified the world population to fit the amount of unique "hits" they receive.

"There's 50 trillion humans. We know 'cause analytics show us."

@dangillmor headline writers have already demonstrated maximum contempt for journalists.

I won’t mind if Google can provide a more accurate summary than the click- and rage-bait headlines that publications favor these days.

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With regards to:

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It goes even further. They want to replace the entire website they're linking to as well:

> ...a system that evaluates your company’s landing page in real time and, if it decides the page won’t perform well enough for a specific user, replaces it with an AI-generated version assembled on the fly. The user never sees what your team built, they see what Google's machine learning model thinks they should see instead.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joetoscano1/2026/03/06/google-just-patented-the-end-of-your-website

@dangillmor Oh hey, libel-as-a-service! Given that they appear to be outright pretending the headline is from the site in question with no clear "we pulled this out of a robot's ass" indicator, and they know full-well that "AI" is a bullshit fountain that doesn't even have the concept of "truth", I'd say that meets the bar of "knowingly false statements", regardless of any 'fine print' disclaimers they might try.

"it only lies 30%* of the time" is an admission, not a defense... They know it's prone to spitting out falsehoods, and have done nothing to correct it. Because nothing they can do can correct it, as the bullshit-fountain is foundational to the architecture of LLMs

* Number pulled out of my ass, not the real statistic. But the point is they know that "statistically plausible output" is not always correct output.