"Google has evolved from a symbiotic force that benefited the entire internet into one that is actively destroying the ecosystem it created."

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/07/02/google-from-symbiote-to-parasite/

A judge has ruled in favor of Meta, saying training AI from copyrighted and pirated books is fair use.

In a similar case a judge ruled in favour of Anthropic.

It is a sad day for book writers. You have been robbed of revenue by the world’s richest people. They will make tons of money while book writers struggle to pay rent and food. There is no justice for artists and writers. My heart goes out to them.

For the first time, I actually read an AI summary from a web search I made. I've avoided them until now, but my eyes glanced and took in the gist before I could blink.

It was on a topic I am a certified consultant in; I was just refreshing my memory. And it answered that the product worked in the way the customer wanted it to rather than the way I thought it did, and cited documentation and support forum links as the sources for that answer.

I checked them. It was wrong.

God I fucking hate this bullshit.

THIS POLL IS CLOSED!

Silly Poll Time

You can only choose one.

Boost it. #food