I legitimately hate those massive bricks we have nowadays. I dread the day my Pixel 4a breaks because I specifically bought that for its comfortable size. I'd absolutely love to see viable and affordable flip smartphones - especially in the non doubled size compartment (I really don't need to carry a freaking tablet around with me). I'm really dubious about the durability of those screens though. I keep my phones usually for many many years.
I'm sorry but no. It's not Google making that claim, it's just the LLM replying in a confident way because that's how they are expected to work. As I said, word prediction. You can install the tiniest / most dumbest model on your local PC too and ask the same question. It will give you some random hallucinated number and act like that's what you're looking for due to its default system prompt telling it to sound like an AI assistant. In the case of search engines the LLM is directly hooked into the search engine itself and just does the same thing you'd do and search for a hopefully fitting search result. So scammers playing those search algorithms to get a good spot will end up becoming the recommendation for the LLM to tell the user. It's the same thing, just displayed slightly differently. All the cool AI assistant stuff they try to present this as, is just an illusion, a word based roleplay. The only benefit here is that they can somewhat understand abstract questions, which is helpful for certain search queries, but in the end it is always the user's responsibility to check the actual search result.
It's not an AI, it's just word prediction, which also just follows stupid algorithms, just like those who determine search results. Both can be tricked / manipulated if you understand how they work. It's still the same principle for both cases.
Nope. Completely different continent even. Shuffling originates from Melbourne, Australia - hence the original name "Melbourne Shuffle". It was usually danced to hardstyle music before a certain pop song popularized a very toned down version for the mainstream audiences.
Right. But that doesn't really make sense to blame them when they had no power to prevent this either. This should be put onto the actual politicians and all the voters who did not vote for Green politicians (which I would guess includes a lot of the people now trying to scapegoat the royalties here).
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That's meaningless with how easy it is to register legit looking faux domains and how it is even easier to create legit looking sub domains. People who fall for those type of scams will likely not even understand what a domain is.
Imagine being on a piracy related instance and not using an ad blocker, or thinking that illegal online streams are 144p.