Welllllll this isn't great.

Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website

"...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

#SEO #Google #AI #enshittification

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@EmilyEnough/116258821633964028

I’ve had a lot of similar thoughts about LLMs and this is a good way to describe them. I’m not necessarily attached to programming itself, but I am very attached to making things. Programming languages let me describe exactly what I mean and get a consistent response. I’m all for reducing complexity, but not at the cost of predictability. The worst thing about computers is when they behave in a way that doesn’t make sense to me and I lack the knowledge or ability to understand why.

Whether you are concerned or not about the harm caused by the technologies pushed on us with the current AI Hype, I highly recommend watching this excellent interview by 404 Media's @samleecole with @alex and @emilymbender from the DAIR Institute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwBZiuH-1QY

And I say "whether you are concerned or not" because this will affect you one way or another, whether you care about it or not. In fact, it very likely already does.

#AI #NoAI #DigitalRights #HumanRights

AI, what does 'hypocrisy' mean?

14-day gift read

@pluralistic

#ai #technology

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/03/hypocrisy-ai-industry/686477/?gift=rMst1BY9gP1HWgkOEVmAK_pbvSf6lI_dTpOBwnyhuSc&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

I love love love love (in a sarcastic, dark humour sort of way) the title of the article Dr. Laura Revell, Dr. @astrokiwi.bsky.social and I wrote last week https://theconversation.com/a-new-space-race-could-turn-our-atmosphere-into-a-crematorium-for-satellites-276366.

But one thing got cut in the final edit: simulations of the night sky with 1 million satellites. I just tried to pitch a separate article on that, I'll see if that gets picked up this coming week or not.