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NEW: Google's AI Overviews are treating entities from the SCP Foundation — the famously fake fan-fiction universe — as if they're real.
The AI feature often contextualizes SCP entities as actual discoveries while describing made-up SCP records as "official" documents.
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New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is"
www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...
Google's AI Overviews are presenting sci-fi and horror phenomena from the famously fake SCP Foundation fan-fiction universe as real.
"We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently."
A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone
& Oregon journos, watch out because one of my projects is expanding archiving present-day reporting now, as opposed to waiting 200 years to do it.
I'm spending half my hours this summer working on this. It is incredibly satisfying to see the inverse of the editorial production process in editorial preservation.
Journalists, have you ever thought about what will happen to your stories 100, 200 years down the line?
RFK Jr. in his official capacity as HHS Secretary has twice attempted to interfere with scientific journals about vaccine-related papers.
One paper showed vaccines are safe and he wants it retracted.
The other allegedly showed that vaccines cause autism and he doesn’t want it retracted.
Guardian Environment
Henry Carnell
Just dropped the biggest and baddest thing I’ve ever worked on: 22-minutes documentary into how science is rewritten by corporations and we pay the cost.
Hope you queue it up for your night and give it a watch!
Henry Carnell
$765 million of your tax dollars being paid to *not* develop wind power.
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
New article from the Brennan Center (co-authored by UW colleague Rachel Moran) on how news deserts leave voters vulnerable to election misinformation. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
The deal with developer Invenergy includes a commitment to build geothermal generation in addition to natural gas.
NEW: the US government intervened Monday on behalf of xAI in a lawsuit over its gas turbines, claiming that the company needs to run the turbines in order to power Grok, which is "vital" for national security
lots of wild stuff in the filing:
In a bid to dismiss a lawsuit over xAI's polluting gas turbines, the Justice Department claimed the company is integral to military operations—including the Iran War.
