@nixCraft and if you ask why, the AI mentions that "Google ... will delete inactive Google accounts ... unless they are used for something illegal." !!
@nixCraft i feel like a good 75% of the issue is relatively unrelated to google though, it's more so the internet being saturated with SEO perfected LLM slop, because I mostly get useless results from DDG too, which is my primary? Or am I just too stupid to do online searches these days I dunno.
@w7voa Not even the Most Powerful Man in the World can afford to disregard the operation of the Rule of Law, a matter in which his predecessor is presently receiving some instruction. The Free World demands reaffirmation of the International Rule-Based-World-Order, no "if's", no "buts".
@georgetakei if your phone is off (i.e. on a plane), or you're out of service area (e.g. cave tour at Mt Shasta), there will be no missed call notification.
@arstechnica The appropriate solution to this was to either use a different voice in the demo or to not make the "her" tweet. Removing the voice is the silliest path forward.
"I've done live fact-checking during breaking news events for years. But the sheer volume of viral misinformation today regarding Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi's helicopter crash posted by fake osint accounts and blue tick grifters for engagement (on Twitter/X) has been something to behold," says Shayan Sardarizadeh, a journalist at BBC Verify.