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Whoever's promotion was riding on the landing of the new #Google icon revamp needs to reconsider life and perhaps pursue becoming a potatoe farmer.
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The author of @allaboutberlin on how Google AI Overviews are killing independent web publishing, citing a 70% drop in traffic after seven years of steady growth. His work trains the model. The model is replacing his site. There is no credit, clicks, or revenue. This is what the "enshittification" of the open web looks like in practice.
Hard to imagine moving to Berlin without stumbling upon his guides at some point.
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#AI #OpenKnowledge #Berlin #Google #Enshittification #OpenWeb #IndieWeb
AI is killing All About Berlin. When you Googled something, you used to get a link to my website. Now you get an AI-generated answer trained on my work. This has a devastating impact on traffic… | Nicolas B. | 171 comments
AI is killing All About Berlin. When you Googled something, you used to get a link to my website. Now you get an AI-generated answer trained on my work. This has a devastating impact on traffic. It's hard to fund my work with 70% fewer visitors.Nicolas B. (LinkedIn)
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Google's new Search AI loves to lie. Note the following exchange where it promises to no longer show me AI content. It simply lied, and continued to generate AI content as before. Google's Big Lie Machine. #google #gemini #ai
With a single "push to prod", #Google took a giant step toward transforming its once ultra-reliable Search engine into a contaminated cesspool of AI-generated misinformation and confusion. Great work, guys.
“This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. The file is named weights.bin. It lives in OptGuideOnDeviceModel. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it.”
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#Google #AI #Chrome #Privacy #Law #Surveillance
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane.
Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it.Alexander Hanff (That Privacy Guy! — Hanff & Co. AB)