Daily Tech News 25 May 2024

• Google is frantically adding filters to its AI search to remove the very stupidest answers. (The Verge)
  
  So it will no longer tell you to put glue on pizza or eat at least one small rock per day but answers that are merely obviously wrong will get through just fine.
  
  
  
• A udm=14 a day keeps the insanity at bay. (Ars Technica)
  
  Adding &udm=14 to the end of a Google search URL turns off the AI response.
  
  For now.

• Google has threatened to stop funding news outlets if California goes ahead with its plan to create a new tax on digital advertising. (Axios)
  
  I've lost count of all the stupid things California is doing.
  
  I've also lost count of all the stupid things Google is doing.
  
  Let them fight.
  
  
  
• OpenAI has rescinded its perpetual gag order on staff leaving the company. (CNBC)
  
  If former staff said anything OpenAI - at its sole discretion - found disagreeable, they lost access to their already vested shares.
  
  This was almost certainly illegal, so OpenAI dropping the clause doesn't really change things that much.
  
  
  
• The UK Environment Agency admitted to "burying" FOIA requests. (The Guardian)
  
  Seems to be a lot of burying going around.
  
  
  
• AI models could violate antitrust laws, babbled FTC chair Lina Khan. (The Hill)
  
  Don't look at me. I tried and couldn't translate what she said into anything that made sense.

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