If you look closely & don't blink, Google's AI Mode will tell you exactly how many websites it's stealing from

Gee, who coulda seen that one coming?

Good coverage by Press Gazette. “It appears Google lives in an entirely separate reality, one where they haven’t been the web’s largest parasite extracting value from almost every revenue stream while giving precious little in return." /1

Over 21 days of talking with ChatGPT, an otherwise perfectly sane man became convinced that he was a real-life superhero. Reporters analyzed the conversation and replicated it across ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini: nytimes.com/2025/08/08/tec…

So many posts about using AI to do XYZ thing it can’t actually do 😩 Just because it provides a plausible-sounding response doesn’t mean it actually properly did the thing you asked it to 😭

→ 45% of AI answers had at least one significant issue → 31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems (missing, misleading, or incorrect) → 20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information 🔗 bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/20…

"AI makes up a lot of stuff and just agrees with you but it's 'intelligence' and you should use it instead of your own brain"

No kidding.

Tucked away in the #Pluribus credits, it reads, “This show was made by humans.” “I hate AI,” creator Vince Gilligan told Variety with a chuckle. “AI is the world’s most expensive and energy-intensive plagiarism machine. I think there’s a very high possibility that this is all a

Pedro Dias Barry Schwartz Lily Ray 😏 Nate Hake Jeremy Knauff Eric Novinson Joe Youngblood - SEO, Futurology, AI, Marketing Google Glenn Gabe Thanks for confirming that you could see it. It gets worse unfortunately. The latest more visual AI Mode model now adds our images (and others) into the mix to make the branded plagiarized AI Frankenstein recipes even more ridiculous!

"Pinterest feeds are full of AI images of food that the instructions won’t achieve. Google’s AI surfaces error-ridden recipes stitched together from multiple blogs. Facebook content farms use AI images of supposedly delicious but impossible dishes." 🔗 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

First, Google Search decimated thousands of websites overnight. Now, YouTube is doing the same thing with channels.

Live view of Google listening to publisher feedback

Food bloggers recently “celebrated” by Google as Success Stories have found themselves warning people about the AI slop recipes at the top of Google search results that will only waste your time and money to create inedible dishes. 🔗 youtu.be/3GeT-p1WDls?si…

Its the exact opposite and its not even close.

Scarlett Johansson, Cate Blanchett and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are among 700 artists, writer and creators backing a new anti-AI campaign calling out tech companies exploiting copyrighted work without permission. "Stealing our work is not innovation. It’s not progress. It’s theft —

ChatGPT’s travel stats: Countries visited: 0 Total experiences: 0 Total expenditure: 0 Incidents faced: 0 Locals interacted with: 0 So why trust it when planning your trip again???

Google’s artificial intelligence now wants to access your Gmail, photo library and search history. Here's what to know and what to be wary of with Gemini’s new Personal Intelligence: wapo.st/4k98H96