A fresh problem with #AI is what might be called Artificial Gullibility.

According to a BlueSky poster, an academic who was ruled guilty of plagiarism has waged an extensive astroturfing campaign to rewrite the record. The goal was probably to game conventional search engines, but the texts have now been ingested by Google's AI. Google's "AI Overview” presents her (apparently false) version of events, backing it with the supposed authority of Google and “AI”.

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https://bsky.app/profile/laurenginsberg.bsky.social/post/3mhnxv2swok2g

I'm angry that I find a ton of funny stuff that only makes sense in English, so I'm sharing one joke that only makes sense in Portuguese:

What animal has more than 3 eyes and less than 4?
Louse.

(Eye is "olho", and louse is "piolho")

USA ermöglichen Recherche zu Nazis in der eigenen Familie

War der eigene Opa ein Nazi? Diese Frage kann nun über das US-Nationalarchiv beantwortet werden. Erstmals sind Mitgliedskarteien der NSDAP online einsehbar.

https://www.heise.de/news/USA-ermoeglichen-Recherche-zu-Nazis-in-der-eigenen-Familie-11217608.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

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