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Google’s AI Is Churning Out a Deluge of Completely Inaccurate, Totally Confident Garbage Google's AI search, which swallows up web results and delivers them to users in a regurgitated package, delivers each of its AI-paraphrased answers to user queries in a concise, coolly confident tone. Just one tiny problem: it's wrong. A lot. Continue Reading . . . https://futurism.com/google-ai-inaccurate-garbage

Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search Social media is abuzz with examples of Google’s new AI Overview product saying weird stuff, from telling users to put glue on their pizza to suggesting they eat rocks. Continue Reading . . . https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/24/24164119/google-ai-overview-mistakes-search-race-openai

Apple needs to explain that bug that resurfaced deleted photos Earlier today, Apple issued a fix in iOS and iPadOS 17.5.1. Patching buggy software is a good, normal thing. But that’s not the issue here. Continue Reading . . . https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24161152/apple-ios-17-photo-bug

Adobe Lightroom gets a magic eraser, and it’s impressive Adobe is adding some new generative AI tools to Lightroom that aim to make the photo editing platform easier to use for both professional creatives and inexperienced users alike, even from a phone. Continue Reading . . . https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/21/24161490/adobe-lightroom-generative-remove-object-removal-tool

Google all in on AI and Gemini: How it will affect your Google searches For Google, Gemini season has arrived early. Gemini, Google's language model that powers its Gemini AI chatbot and other multimodal tools, is expanding into other apps and features in the coming months, the tech company announced earlier this week at their annual developer conference, Google I/O. Continue Reading . . . https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2024/05/17/google-ai-overview-search/73728192007/

The Acolyte's New Promo Whips Up a Sick New Weapon In more than ways than one, The Acolyte is being poisitioned as a different Star Wars show than the other live-action offerings. Continue Reading . . . https://gizmodo.com/star-wars-acolyte-lightwhip-weapon-1851486594

Android 15 could reach iPhone levels of standby battery life Summary Android 15 will offer better battery standby thanks to Doze Mode upgrades, potentially adding up to three hours of standby time. The new software will be able to go into doze mode 50% faster than Android 14, according to Google's Dave Burke. Continue Reading . . . https://www.androidpolice.com/android-15-doze-mode-improved-battery-life/