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Google Appears to Have Partnered With the Company Behind Sports Illustrated’s Fake, AI-Generated Writers

Google Appears to Have Partnered With the Company Behind Sports Illustrated’s Fake, AI-Generated Writers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google is set on infusing AI into search. What does that mean for the ad model that brings in the majority of the search giant's revenue?

Google Accidentally Admits Something Very Funny About AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As the Financial Times reports, the company is considering putting premium AI search services behind a subscription paywall.

Google Considering Making Users Pay for AI Search Results

By Victor Tangermann

In response to a lawsuit, Google is going to delete billions of data points from users who browsed on Chrome's Incognito mode.

Good News, Sickos! Google Says It’s Deleting Records of Your Incognito Searches

By Noor Al-Sibai

Despite having been in public beta mode for nearly a year, Google's SGE search engine is still spitting out incorrect answers.

Google’s AI Still Giving Idiotic Answers Nearly a Year After Launch

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassibis likened the hype shrouding the AI gold rush to that of the crypto industry's high-dollar funding race.

CEO of Google DeepMind Says AI Industry Full of Hype and Grifters

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has started writing personal letters to employees at Google in an effort to recruit them for Meta's AI projects.

Zuckerberg Emailing Google Employees, Asking Them to Work for Facebook Instead

By Sharon Adarlo

Don't want Google's experimental AI search feature, known as SGE, embedded into your search results page? Too bad.

Google Pushing Its Unsafe Search AI on Users Who Didn’t Opt In

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's AI-integrated Search feature, Search Generative Experience (SGE), is leading platform users straight to malware-laden spam sites.

Google’s AI Search Caught Pushing Users to Download Malware

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google faces a $270 million fine from France for using articles from media companies to train its AI chatbot, Gemini, without permission.

Google Hit With Huge Fine for Training AI With News Articles Without Getting Permission

By Sharon Adarlo

Dystopian Google AI Tool Turns Still Images into Creepy Talking Videos

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A case study in SEO bros, the new Google spam update, and the AI-generated content continuing to fill the web.

SEO Guy Mocks Google for Deindexing His “Gibberish” AI Sites

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google has set up guardrails that bar its Gemini AI from answering any election questions in any country where they are taking place.

Google Bans Its Dimwit Chatbot From Answering Any Election Questions

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google announced a substantial overhaul to its spam policies for search yesterday, introducing a crackdown on AI content.

Google Search Cracking Down on Mass-Produced AI-Generated Slime

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google is paying publishers to test an AI tool that generates news — by reportedly gobbling up and regurgitating already-published news.

Google Quietly Paying Journalists to Generate Articles Using Unreleased AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google CEO Sundar Pichai is furious after his company's Gemini AI spat out unexplainable pictures of racially diverse Nazis.

Google CEO Admits Its AI Totally Screwed Up

By Victor Tangermann

Gemini won't draw you pictures of humans for the time being — but depending on your definition, it may draw some dressed up as clowns.

Google Blocked Gemini From Generating Images of Humans, But It Still Does Clowns

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google's newly-rebranded Gemini AI has some issues, such as apparently equivocating Elon Musk and Adolf Hitler.

Google Chatbot Refused to Say Whether Elon Musk Is Better Than Adolf Hitler

By Noor Al-Sibai

This week, Google's News tab suddenly disappeared from Search. Backdrop that with layoffs and AI, and behold: fresh media industry anguish.

Amid Brutal Media Layoffs, Google “Tests” Deleting News Tab

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google paused its AI image generator due to its penchant for creating inaccurate historical illustrations, such as racially diverse Nazis.

Google Shuts Down AI Image Generator After It Made “Racially Diverse Nazis”

By Sharon Adarlo

Google Renames Its Forgettable AI in Fight to Stay Relevant

Google Renames Its Forgettable AI in Fight to Stay Relevant

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Ex-Googler Jim Albrecht argues that generative AI is the "wolf" coming for the media industry. Unfortunately, he's probably right.

Former Google News Director Admits Big Tech Is Killing Journalism

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google is gearing up to release a new feature for Chrome that's essentially an in-browser, AI-powered writing assistant.

Google Debuting Chrome Feature Where AI Writes Your Posts For You

By Sharon Adarlo

Amid a giant wave of AI layoffs, Google is firing thousands of contractors tasked with making its search engine work better.

As AI Destroys Search Results, Google Fires Workers in Charge of Improving It

By Noor Al-Sibai

As it continues to layoff thousands of employees, Google remains unwavering in its commitment to "responsible AI."

Leaked Google Memo Shows Aimless Execs Basically Worshiping AI

By Frank Landymore

Google Insider Says Bosses Have No Idea What They’re Doing With AI

Google Insider Says Bosses Have No Idea What They’re Doing With AI

By Victor Tangermann

Google's search results are starting to look like an unrecognizable heap of spam, meaningless SEO filler, and dubiously sourced news.

AI Garbage Is Destroying Google Results

By Victor Tangermann

Google has laid off more than a thousand people since January 10th — and according to CEO Sundar Pichai, there will be more firings.

As Google Pivots to AI, CEO Warns He Will Fire Even More Staff

By Noor Al-Sibai

If you searched Craigslist using Google recently, you may have gotten totally meaningless junk pages stuffed solely with links and keywords.

Google Search Losing Battle Against Barrage of SEO Spam

By Frank Landymore

According to The Information, Google is looking to reassign or let go of customer sales workers whose jobs were automated by AI tools.

Google Reportedly Replacing Some Human Staff With AI

By Victor Tangermann

LAION has taken down its machine learning dataset, which Google uses, after researchers found it contained child sexual abuse material.

Image Database Powering Google’s AI Contains Explicit Images of Children

By Victor Tangermann

Google misrepresented the way its Gemini Pro can recognize a series of images and admitted to speeding up the footage.

Google Admits Gemini AI Demo Was at Least Partially Faked

By Victor Tangermann

Google has officially launched its latest AI model called Gemini — which it claims to be more powerful than OpenAI's GPT-4.

Google Shows Off “Gemini” AI, Says It Beats GPT-4

By Victor Tangermann

In his latest grim forecast, ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt says that there aren't enough guardrails to stop AI from doing catastrophic harm.

Former Google CEO Warns AI Could Endanger Humanity Within Five Years

By Noor Al-Sibai

The first-of-its-kind geothermal plant will power Google's nearby data centers and could kick start a new phase of geothermal energy.

Google Fires Up Experimental New Geothermal Plant

By Frank Landymore

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole was best known for his cover of Judy Garland's "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" — but now, AI has gotten to him, too.

The Top Google Image for Israel Kamakawiwo’ole Is AI-Generated

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google DeepMind researchers discovered something about AI models that may hamstring their employer's plans for more advanced AIs.

Google AI Researchers Found Something Their Bosses Might Not Be Happy About

By Noor Al-Sibai

The co-founder of Google DeepMind has for decades thought that AGI will be achieved by 2028 — and he's holding firm on that 50/50 bet.

Google AI Chief Says There’s a 50% Chance We’ll Hit AGI in Just 5 Years

By Noor Al-Sibai

The FAA has cleared Google cofounder Sergey Brin's 400-foot airship, dubbed the Pathfinder 1, for test flights in California.

Google Cofounder’s Airship Cleared for Flight

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A leader in Google's artificial intelligence division in the United Kingdom says that AI poises a big threat to humanity like climate change.

Google AI Boss Says AI Is an Existential Threat to Humankind

By Sharon Adarlo

Google has moved to dismiss a class action data-scraping lawsuit regarding its AI training practices, which the suit alleges amount to theft.

Google Terrified of Lawsuit That Would “Take a Sledgehammer” to Generative AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new AI-powered tool from Google will effortlessly swap and add different facial expressions using other photos you took.

Google’s New Phone Adds Smiles to Your Photos Even If Everyone Was Miserable

By Frank Landymore

Google set up a secretive Discord server for its most active Bard AI users — but their feedback isn't all positive.

Google Insider Unimpressed by Its Cutting Edge AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google's search AI thinks you can melt eggs. Its source? ChatGPT. Cheers to the end of the internet's usability!

Google’s Search AI Says You Can Melt Eggs. Its Source Will Make You Facepalm

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google just plugged Bard into a variety of its products — but the AI chatbot might not be the helpful assistant that Google wants it to be.

Google’s New Gmail Tool Is Hallucinating Emails That Don’t Exist

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The new model, AlphaMissense, has identified 71 million missense mutations and classified 89 percent of them as likely benign or malignant.

Google DeepMind Claims Its AI Can Pinpoint Genetic Mutations That Cause Disease

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The family of a North Carolina man is suing Google, claiming Google Maps directions made the father drive his car off a bridge last year.

Family Sues Google for Fatally Telling Father to Drive Off Collapsed Bridge

By Victor Tangermann

Google "Tank Man," and you might be met with a fake, AI-generated "Tank Man Selfie" as the search engine's top — and featured! — result.

Google Made an AI-Generated Fake the First Result for “Tank Man”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An AI pioneer and onetime Google executive has issued a stark warning about the technology he helped unleash upon the world.

Former Google Exec Warns AI Could Create a Deadly Plague

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was clearly annoyed by a blog post declaring that Google's forthcoming Gemini model will quickly surpass GPT-4.

OpenAI Rages at Report That Google’s New AI Crushes GPT-4

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Sketchy sites are purporting to sell semaglutide, the active ingredient in Wegovy, without a prescription. Google is cashing in.

Google Seems to Be Running a Lot of Ads for Black Market Semaglutide

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google's AI-driven Search Generative Experience have been generating results that are downright weird and evil, ie slavery's positives.

Google’s Search AI Says Slavery Was Good, Actually

By Sharon Adarlo

Google DeepMind researchers have finally found a way to make life coaching even worse: infuse it with generative AI.

Google’s Apparently Building an AI That Tells You How to Live Your Life

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's AI-powered search doesn't understand geography. Or, apparently, the alphabet. And definitely not both at the same time.

Google’s SGE Search AI Is Devouring False AI-Generated Info and Saying It’s True

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

James Manyika, Google's head of head of "tech and society," is straddling the contradictory gap between AI optimism and AI doomsay.

Google’s Lead AI Guy Says AI Will Be Amazing, Unless It Kills Us

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google and Universal Music Reportedly Want to Monetize Deepfaked AI Songs

By Frank Landymore

According to Google's 2023 Environmental Report, the company used an astronomical 5.6 billion gallons of water last year.

Google Is Using a Flabbergasting Amount of Water on AI

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, DeepMind, and Anthropic have together formed The Frontier Model Forum, a self-regulatory AI industry club.

OpenAI and Google Form New Group to Self-Regulate Their AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google is secretly demoing an artificial intelligence tool that can produce news stories and showing it off to major newspapers.

Google Secretly Showing Newspapers an AI-Powered News Generator

By Victor Tangermann

Despite violating a number of content policies, nonconsensual deepfake porn is insanely easy to find on search engines Google and Bing.

Google Is Sending Users Straight to Nonconsensual Deepfake Porn

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Lawsuits against AI companies for their AI training and data practices continue to pile up. This time, Google's the one in the hot seat.

Lawsuit Claims Google Is Vacuuming Up People’s Whole Lives to Train AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Gizmodo's AI-generated "Star Wars" article — a messy first foray into AI content on behalf of owner G/O media — is on Google's first page.

Gizmodo’s AI-Generated Star Wars Article Still Has Errors, and Now It’s Ranking on Google

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google has been quietly testing a medical AI chatbot in Mayo Clinic and other hospitals for months, according to a report.

Google Is Already Testing a Medical AI Chatbot in Hospitals

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's forthcoming new AI combines LLM technology with the strengths of the groundbreaking AlphaGo, says Google DeepMind CEO.

Google AI Boss Says New System Will Be More Powerful Than OpenAI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré