Lance & Laura. Office dwellers with a need to explore the world. We love street art, diving, quirky things, and limoncello. Most tweets from Laura.
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8 Apr 2025
AI is killing creative professions, the open web, & the environment while being wrong most of the time.
I went to Google to talk about the destruction of small publishers. They said they would do better, but it’s gotten worse. Bloomberg told our story. bloom.bg/43Jmzk3
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Apr 30
Google E-E-A-T stands for Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness
Used in a sentence:
"Google is going to eeat 100% of your content to feed to AI Overviews"
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Apr 9
Google's AI Overviews spew out millions of false answers per hour, bombshell study reveals trib.al/1ao7qB1
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Apr 10
🦔A researcher invented a fake eye condition called bixonimania, uploaded two obviously fraudulent papers about it to an academic server, and watched major AI systems present it as real medicine within weeks.
The fake papers thanked Starfleet Academy, cited funding from the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation and the University of Fellowship of the Ring, and stated mid-paper that the entire thing was made up. Google's Gemini told users it was caused by blue light. Perplexity cited its prevalence at one in 90,000 people.
ChatGPT advised users whether their symptoms matched. The fake research was then cited in a peer-reviewed journal that only retracted it after Nature contacted the publisher.
My Take
The researcher made the papers as obviously fake as possible on purpose. The AI systems didn't catch it. Neither did the human researchers who cited it in real journals, which means people are feeding AI-generated references into their work without reading what they're actually citing.
I've covered the FDA using AI for drug review, the NYC hospital CEO ready to replace radiologists, and ChatGPT Health launching this year. All of that is happening in the same environment where a condition funded by a Simpsons character and endorsed by the crew of the Enterprise was being presented as emerging medical consensus. The people making these deployment decisions seem to believe the pipeline from research to AI to patient is more supervised than it actually is. This experiment suggests it isn't supervised much at all.
Hedgie🤗
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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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
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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???
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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 — plain and simple.” variety.com/2026/film/global…
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27 Dec 2025
RT @kortizart: Its the exact opposite and its not even close.
ALT Pew research showcasing the overwhelming majority of Americans are concerned over GenAi. Specifically 50% of Americans are more concerned than excited about the increased use of Al in daily life
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22 Dec 2025
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=qZXs…
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4 Dec 2025
Live view of Google listening to publisher feedback
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2 Dec 2025
First, Google Search decimated thousands of websites overnight. Now, YouTube is doing the same thing with channels.
1 Dec 2025
I did what 99% of creators think is impossible - I legally defeated YouTube.
How does YouTube react? They're pretending it never happened.
Let me tell you a story that proves the system is designed to crush creators - even when you WIN legal case and the law is on your side 👇
➡️ June 2024: My channel "Chase Car" (20k subs) gets demonetized for "reused content."
I appeal. A HUMAN reviewer checks everything - my editing timeline, voiceovers, scripts.
They email me: "This is original content, you follow all the guidelines." Monetization restored. I'm relieved. A human verified me. I'm safe now.
➡️ November 2024: I wake up to find my entire channel TERMINATED. Same content. Same videos. Different result. Reason: "Spam, deceptive practices and scams policies".
Wait... what? A human JUST cleared me months ago. Since I was verified by a YouTube employee, I knew my content was fine. I was creating EV news/car review videos that the YouTube Team had already accepted. Yet, the AI bot didn't care this time.
I appeal → INSTANT rejection from the AI bot.
Most creators give up here. But as a European Union citizen, I have the opportunity to defend myself as a creator using European Union law. I filed a formal case with ADROIT, an official European Union certified dispute body.
March 2025: Case filed.
July 23, 2025: Decision arrives (attached)
The verdict:
✅ "Complaint is UPHELD"
✅ "YouTube's termination was NOT RIGHTFUL"
✅ "YouTube failed to specify violating content" and my channel should be reinstated.
An independent legal body ruled YouTube was WRONG. The best part? YouTube defended itself during the process but could not show what I had violated. I WON.
Here's where it gets terrifying - My channel is STILL terminated.
I've been emailing YouTube's legal team for 4 MONTHS. Bot replies and complete silence.
I never gave up; I fought fairly for my rights as a creator using the tools I had, and I won fair and square. Yet, they're acting like it never happened and the decision doesn't exist.
Think about that for a moment. Even when you:
➡️ Follow every rule
➡️ Have a YouTube employee confirm that your content follows the policies
➡️ Win an official legal case
➡️ Have a documented decision that your channel should be reinstated
...YouTube's AI system just ignores you, and contacting a human is impossible.
If they can do this to me AFTER I won, what chance does any creator have?
I'm not giving up. I am filing a complaint with the Irish regulator @CNaM_ie to force YouTube to honor the decision.
But I need your help: RT this and tag @TeamYouTube .
Make them respond, so they can't pretend this isn't happening.
Because if they can ignore a legal ruling, no creator is safe.
#YouTubeAIWrongedCreators @YouTube @YouTubeCreators @YouTubeInsider
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26 Nov 2025
"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/…
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19 Nov 2025
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!
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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 bunch of horseshit. It’s basically a bunch of centibillionaires whose greatest life goal is to become the world’s first trillionaires. I think they’re selling a bag of vapor.”
Read the full “Pluribus” story from @ethanshanfeld here: wp.me/pc8uak-1lGwMi
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3 Nov 2025
No kidding.
2 Nov 2025
An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” @JohnCassidy writes. nyer.cm/FUZwzw8
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"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"
1 Nov 2025
Hallucinations — where models simply make things up about all types of things— and sycophancy — where models tell users what they want to hear — are challenges across the AI industry, particularly smaller open models like Gemma. We remain committed to minimizing hallucinations and continually improving all our models.
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23 Oct 2025
→ 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/2025/n…
23 Oct 2025
BBC: Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/n…
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19 Oct 2025
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 😭
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14 Aug 2025
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/techn…
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