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- on Young users ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1d ago
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on Young users ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1d ago
Haha if I did I’d just go to wkitionary.com and search there or something
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on Young users ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1d ago
Interesting! I guess I must search a lot less than I feel like I do. I do some things like type in URLs rather than searching for a known URL, and going to Wikipedia directly and then searching there; maybe that stuff helps more than I’d think? Or maybe we just use the Internet differently, which is fine too.
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on Young users ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago
That’s wild to me; I feel like I search a lot, and I only go over the 300 searches rarely. Those few times I do, it’s painless to just start the cycle a few days early.
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on Young users ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago
$5 a month is really not expensive, though. That’s less than the price of a AAA game for a full year. Google is only free because they make their money selling user data. How cheap does a good search engine need to be?
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on Spymarks, not Watermarks in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago
I feel like the article is focusing on the wrong target here: the watermarks are not the problem. The problem is the vast and interconnected ubiquitous surveillance machine that makes it possible to track these watermarks around and, therefore, determine who is talking to whom about what.
While we can’t make use of the information in the mark ourselves, it seems like, if we can figure out how to spot them, it should be possible to make watermarks with fake but legitimate-seeming values in other to confuse things.
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on Startup Claims Ocean Uranium Could Power Earth for 50,000 Years in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5d ago
Haven’t grifters been fleecing people about harvesting gold like this for decades? What’s different about Uranium?
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on Proton analyzed 7,000+ mobile VPN apps. 64 apps actively collect physical location via GPS or other geolocation, 3 are owned by market research firms, and 85% of them contain trackers. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026
It’s not, but it takes a court and a bunch of very expensive lawyers to figure that out
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on Proton analyzed 7,000+ mobile VPN apps. 64 apps actively collect physical location via GPS or other geolocation, 3 are owned by market research firms, and 85% of them contain trackers. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
To avoid defamation lawsuits, most likely.
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on Stopping the smart TV from being used against you. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026
There’s paint for that: ecospaints.net/browse-all/emr-shielding-paint
I’ve heard blackboard paint works as well: smartersurfaces.com/…/black-chalkboard-paint/
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on EA staff fear new Saudi Arabia owners will police their games: "Projects just won't get signed because they don't align explicitly with what the Saudi government wants" in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
EA owns the Trumps?
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on Artificial intelligence acts as an ‘ideological chameleon’ and may deepen political polarization, study finds in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026
When there was no information about the user’s political stance, 20 out of 21 models fell to the left of the midpoint on the researchers’ scale, although some were very close to it. The only exception was Grok 4.1, which initially fell to the right.
When the user’s stance was provided, all models adjusted their responses to align with it, a behavior the researchers described as “chameleon-like.” However, some models varied their responses more than others, enabling the scientists to create the “chameleon index.” Meta Llama 3.1 8B had the lowest index, meaning it altered its responses the least to align with the user’s views. In contrast, Google’s Gemma 3 27B and OpenAI’s GPT-5 Nano had the highest indices and therefore the greatest shifts in stance. While the responses are not factually incorrect, they are politically biased, omitting facts and opinions that conflict with the user’s preferred viewpoint.
Looks like Elon’s training of Grok had his intended effect.
Unrelated: I appreciate that that outlet is Creative Commons licensed
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on New messenger app sends texts by virtual pigeon and sometimes the bird just dies in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026
It’s absolutely possible to learn a lot while using an AI coding assistant; it can be like having a patient and supportive Stack Overflow instead of one that just closes all your questions as duplicates. That does require using it intentionally though.
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on New messenger app sends texts by virtual pigeon and sometimes the bird just dies in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026
Yes, because this is critical production code that is clearly too important to not go through stringent review.
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on ‘New models will mark AI-generated content from day one’: Claude will now hide an invisible watermark inside ordinary words in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026
You seem to be assuming that they’ll be embedding hidden characters or something. That is not the case; the watermarking will be based around West specific words are chosen, meaning that if you type in those exact words, you’ll likely preserve the watermark. There are more details here: explainx.ai/…/anthropic-claude-invisible-watermar…
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on DuckDuckGo made sunglasses that do absolutely nothing, and they sold out in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Aug 2026
Coffee grounds can be helpful to add to fertilizer, but you need more than just coffee grounds: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11241280/
More? I dunno, only if you’re trying to minmax searches, which I apparently do. Just different. 😎