Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
Celeste Ng
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In March, I went to watch France and Brazil play a pre-World Cup game—half the game from an on-field VIP club, half from the cheap seats. Today I’ve got an essay out about what live sports are for, which seems like something a lot of us are thinking about right now. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Court holds Google liable for false claims in AI Overviews. Seems significant.
"A regular search engine just points to outside websites. But AI overviews generate 'independent, new, and substantive statements' by evaluating and combining content from various third-party sites" the-decoder
This is a useful guide, with concrete steps to taking action, for getting your company to leave Twitter/X and preventing your school from implementing genAI in the classroom.
If you need a script for getting your company off Twitter, I WROTE YOU ONE. Multiple people have used it, successfully, to explain the legal liability your company incurs by forcing employees to be on a platform with child sexual abuse material. I will help you use it. anildash.com/2026/02/23/t...
Sometimes I get a bit weird when I'm hungry and also when I'm not hungry
To all the people glumly stating you can’t go after Elon Musk because he’s rich: you have been trained into holding this false belief.
There is absolutely no physical or natural law stating that really rich men cannot be punished.
The only barrier is cowardice.
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Share some good news today, large or small? Here's mine: MA legislature passes a Freedom to Read Bill, to help prevent book bans & protect librarians statewide! (Last year MA was 6th in the nation for # of books challenged.) #sharegoodnewstoo
As World Cup ticket prices top $10,000, a trip from the VIP area to the nosebleeds reveals what spectators are really paying for.
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A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators don't apply to AI overviews. In this case, Google's AI had falsely linked two publishers to fraud and made claims that didn't appear in any of the linked sources. The ruling could set a precedent for AI-generated content liability worldwide.
