Google is updating Gemini to add a UI that triggers support hotline referrals and a “help is available” module when chats indicate potential crises like suicide
Alphabet Inc.'s Google plans to introduce new mental health support features for its Gemini chatbot as the company and rivals …
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@jackcarterbenjamin
Jack Benjamin
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“It was spitting out the stuff from my website as though it was God's own truth.” — How accurate are AI Overviews? Well, let me tell you, an entire cottage industry within marketing has sprung up to influence its results. — So, in other words, not trustworthy at all. www.nyt…
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@ronaldjcoleman
Ronald J. Coleman
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“Today's A.I. systems use mathematical probabilities to guess the best response, not a strict set of rules defined by human engineers. That means they make a certain number of mistakes.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/t...
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@hern
Alex Hern
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speak of the devil bsky.app/profile/tech... [embedded post]
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@daniloc.xyz
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Had someone come in to a library help shift asking “how to turn off all the AI.” So I dutifully twiddled the various Windows registry values to do so, handing it back to her to verify. She immediately did a Google search. the one bit of AI she wanted gone I couldn't help with […
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Cynthia Brumfield
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www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/t... Not accurate enough to trust them
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Alex Hern
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continue to think that Google, which arguably has the best AI models in the market, deliberately filling its search results with responses from with the dumbest models it makes is one of the worst strategic decisions in the sector so far [embedded post]