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Mar 19, 11:05 AM EDT by Maggie Harrison Duprรฉ
Did Google Test an Experimental AI on Kids, With Tragic Results?
"It was like getting rats for an experiment."
/ Artificial Intelligence/ Ai Chatbots/ Ai Safety/ Character Ai
IMAGE: A child in a dark room touching an iPAD, which is glowing red.
NEW: I spoke with Megan Garcia, the mother of the teen who died by suicide after using the chatbot site CharacterAI, about her lawsuit against CAI, its founders, and Google.
"I want [parents] to understand," she told me, "what their kids have given up."
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abducted by masked agents of the state in the streets of the capital and slated for deportation for the offense of being linked to views
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Google Pixel phoneโs Emergency SOS sent a personโs nudes to friends
The emergency assistance system on Pixel phones can also record videos and share it with your friends and family members. You can choose to disable it, though.
Google Pixelโs Emergency SOS mistakenly sent a personโs nudes to friends
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can record up to a 45 minute video in emergency situations and send it to your emergency contacts. Itโs a lifesaver
Until it sends your nude to a dozen friends.
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Google happily keeps gutting websites with original content, and then its โsmartestโ โbenchmark leading modelโ gives you slop, pulled exclusively from a leech AI garbage website as if it was the most authoritative source out there.
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This is an astonishingly good article.
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Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website
"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."
Scoop: The DOGE website that Elon Musk spun up to track cuts to the federal government is insecure and pulls from a database that can be edited by anyone. So, someone did.
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this is all i have to say today
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Very thin films of a novel semimetal conduct electricity better than copper โ Physics World
Result in niobium phosphide contradicts typical metal behaviour
Metals usually get less conductive as they get thinner. But not niobium phosphide! Even as a very thin film, this non-crystalline topological semimetal conducts electricity better than copper. ๐งชโ๏ธ physicsworld.com/a/very-thin-...
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The hypocrisy of our society will unfold here.
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Mark Zuckerberg lies about content moderation to Joe Roganโs face
Zuckerberg even offers Republicans another target: Apple.
"This is a compelling demonstration that jujitsu and MMA training (or hunting pigs in Hawaii or making your neck real thick or whatever) isnโt going to help you act aggressive if youโre constitutionally bitchmade." ๐
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Science is for nerds.
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F$#& you, Grammarly!
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Hey @cdavies.bsky.social Good Morning!
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what is glockenspiel?
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Gemini 2.0
you piece of shit!
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Hey Bram, Can you send me DM, please? Thanks!
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