New Grok AI model surprises experts by checking Elon Musk’s views before answering - An AI model launched last week appears to have shipped with ... - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/07/new-grok-ai-model-surprises-experts-by-checking-elon-musks-views-before-answering/ #machinelearning #simonwillison #aiassistants #jeremyhoward #aialignment #aibehavior #aisearch #elonmusk #twitter #biz⁢ #grok #xai #ai #x

The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun - Employers are drowning in AI-generated job applications, wit... - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/the-resume-is-dying-and-ai-is-holding-the-smoking-gun/ #largelanguagemodels #aidevelopmenttools #machinelearning #aiprogramming #aiassistants #airegulation #generativeai #aiandwork #aiethics #aisearch #chatbots #chatgpt #chatgtp #biz⁢ #aiwork #ailaw #ai

"Google isn’t satisfied with its monopoly on the questions we search.

Google wants to use AI to monopolize the very answers themselves.

As one Google executive recently explained: “Organizing information is clearly a trillion-dollar opportunity, but a trillion dollars is not cool anymore. What’s cool is a quadrillion dollars.”

Google plans to use AI to consume and replace the open web.

I believe demolishing independent sites like mine was Google’s first step in clearing ground so it has space to rebuild search from the ground up for an “AI-first” future.

Google envisions a future where “Google does the Googling for you,” its AI and ads do the answering – and users never need to leave Google.

Google will just source information from a handful of sources and partner websites that it controls and selects – effectively creating an information cartel.

If Google can use AI to censor a travel website from the web arbitrarily and without opportunity for appeal – it can do the same to any source of information it wants.

And American citizens and Internet users everywhere will be worse off for it.

So while you may not really care about the plight of some random travel website getting censored, everyone should care about the way Google is deploying AI to build a censorship cartel that lets it control the flow of information online.

What follows is a lengthy summary of my experiences and my opinions as an independent publisher trying to survive in a monopolist’s information economy.

To start, let me explain how we got to this point where Google has the power to do this:"

https://travellemming.com/perspectives/ftc-letter-google-censors-indie-publishers-with-ai/

OpenAI Begins Rolling Out New Shopping Features for ChatGPT https://www.byteseu.com/964159/ #AI #AISearch #AIShopping #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT #GenAI #GenerativeAI #News #OpenAI #ProductResults #PYMNTSNews #What'sHot

"The bizarre replies are the perfect distillation of one of AI's biggest flaws: rampant hallucinations. Large language model-based AIs have a long and troubled history of rattling off made-up facts and even gaslighting users into thinking they were wrong all along.

And despite AI companies' extensive attempts to squash the bug, their models continue to hallucinate. Even OpenAI's latest reasoning models, dubbed o3 and o4-mini, tend to hallucinate even more than their predecessors, showing that the company is actually headed in the wrong direction.

Google's AI Overviews feature, which the company rolled out in May of last year, still has a strong tendency to hallucinate facts as well, making it far more of an irritating nuisance than a helpful research assistant for users."

https://futurism.com/google-ai-overviews-fake-idioms

Anthropic’s new AI search feature digs through the web for answers - On Thursday, Anthropic introduced web search capabilities for its AI assis... - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/anthropics-new-ai-search-feature-digs-through-the-web-for-answers/ #largelanguagemodels #anthropicclaude #machinelearning #simonwillison #aiassistants #bravebrowser #aiwebsearch #bravesearch #anthropic #websearch #aisearch #chatgpt #chatgtp #biz⁢ #claude #ai

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An Irelands worth of electricity would be added to the grid if all searches were done using their generative AI (stated at around 13 minutes into the podcast) 

"What is the environmental cost of AI search?" 

https://www.aljazeera.com/audio/podcasts/the-take

Operating a website in the AI Overviews era of search can feel like running a hotel in a desert. But your 'AI footprint' is still important, according to an SEO expert I spoke to: “Even if you don’t get the direct click-through from the initial impression, there’s a lot more interaction and impressions.” Perhaps a little hope for parched publishers? https://thenewstack.io/google-ai-overviews-and-citations-tips-for-web-publishers/ #AIsearch #SEO

I’m watching this interview and it’s pretty good so far! He said “they are no longer building products for people” he was talking about how #facebook #google and these other companies using #ai & #aisearch in everything https://youtu.be/T8ByoAt5gCA?si=TlyKkTyrYwU5iEef

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/30/24168344/google-defends-ai-overviews-search-results

In the continuing saga of Googles AI search debacle, they are now claiming there were a “very large number of faked screenshots” & "nonsensical new searches, seemingly aimed at producing erroneous results."

They think their new AI-Search is just fine and everyone else is to blame.

Sabotage? Rigged results? This is starting to sound familiar.....

Anyone else remember back when people thought Wikipedia was going to rot our brains as kids and there would be a deluge of misinformation.
#GoogleAI #aisearch

I've been thinking about AI Search and what impact it might have on the internet.

The takeaway line from Google I/O was: let Google do the Googling for you.

But if we never have to visit any websites, won't the web die?

Maybe.

I watch MKBHD videos because they're informative *and* entertaining.

Perhaps AI Search will force the web to work harder for our attention. Bare facts aren't enough.

But do we want Weather.com to be ... entertaining?

"One of these search engines always [strives to tell the truth but often] lies, and the other search engine always tells [a partial lie while trying to present] the truth. By asking one question, and without using any Office memes, identify which is which."

Talk to books

A new project from Google. Find answers to your questions from books using experimental AI

http://books.google.com/talktobooks/