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In a major change in tune, Google has admitted that the "open web is already in rapid decline" — despite arguing that the "web is thriving."

Google Says the Open Web Is Now in “Rapid Decline”

By Victor Tangermann

The CEO of Perplexity AI insists that his wannabe Google competitor is doing just fine, thank you very much.

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Perplexity AI CEO Denies Rumors Company Is Disintegrating Behind the Scenes

By Noor Al-Sibai

New research found that AI models gave the wrong answer in search results more than 60 percent of the time.

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Study Finds That AI Search Engines Are Wrong an Astounding Proportion of the Time

By Frank Landymore

Google, has announced that it's going to expand its infamously terrible and ad-inundated AI Overviews feature.

Google Announces “AI Mode” For Search Results That Only Shows You AI Slop

By Frank Landymore

Google's AI Overviews confidently insist that MJ Lenderman has won 14 Grammys — even though he's never been nominated for one on his own.

Google’s AI Insists That MJ Lenderman Has Won 14 Grammys

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI and Google appear to be sucking up much-needed traffic to websites and massively screwing publishers over in the process.

ChatGPT and Other Chatbots Are Hurting Publishers Even Worse Than We Thought

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google's AI-generated search summary for the query "baby elephant" includes an AI-generated photo of a clearly fake, teacup-sized elephant.

Google’s AI Overview Believes Baby Elephants Can Sit in the Palm of a Human Hand

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A review found that OpenAI's "ChatGPT search" is routinely mangling reporting from news outlets, including OpenAI-partnered publications.

ChatGPT Is Absolutely Butchering Reporting From Its “News Partners”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The CEO of the AI search engine Perplexity seemed perplexed when asked how his company defines "plagiarism."

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Perplexity AI CEO Sputters When Asked to Define “Plagiarism” Onstage

By Noor Al-Sibai

Should you smear human feces on a balloon to potty train your kid? According to Google Search's AI Overview, the answer is yes.

Google’s Search AI Suggests Smearing Fecal Matter on Balloon to Potty Train Children

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Journalists at The Atlantic wrote a letter to their leadership addressing their concerns about the magazine's licensing deal with OpenAI.

The Atlantic’s Staff Is Furious About Its Deal With OpenAI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI entered the AI search market this week with a prototype of a search tool called SearchGPT. There's an error in its demo.

OpenAI Reveals AI-Powered Search Engine, Which Instantly Makes Factual Mistake in Demo

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Perplexity AI search tool is citing low-quality and sometimes incorrect AI-generated spam from sketchy blogs and LinkedIn posts.

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Perplexity Is Already “Citing” Error-Filled AI-Generated Spam

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's search head doesn't want something as pesky as nonsense AI answers to keep the company from pushing out immature products.

Google’s Head of Search Tells Employees That AI Will Keep Making Absurd Mistakes, But They’re Gonna Keep Pushing It Out

By Noor Al-Sibai

As of this week, Google's AI was still telling people to put glue on pizza — and in the process, it misrepresented a journalist's work.

Google Helpless to Stop Its AI From Recommending Glue on Pizza

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google manually removed AI-powered search results from pages where it was caught giving bizarre and incorrect information to search users.

Google Caught Manually Taking Down Bizarre AI Answers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré