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Google’s test turns search results into an AI-generated podcast

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  • Get an audio overview of Search results in Labs, then click through to learn more.

    Today, we’re launching a new Search experiment in Labs – Audio Overviews, which uses our latest Gemini models to generate quick, conversational audio overviews for certain search queries. Searching for a topic you’re not familiar with? An audio overview can help you get a lay of the land, offering a convenient, hands-free way to absorb information whether you're multitasking or simply prefer an audio experience.

    Want to explore a topic further? We display helpful web pages right within the audio player on the search results page so you can easily dive in and learn more.

    To try it out, opt into the experiment in Labs. When our systems determine it might be useful, you’ll see the option on the search results page to tap to generate a short audio overview on the topic of your query. You can give a thumbs up/down on each discussion, and the experiment as a whole in Labs.

  • Get an audio overview of Search results in Labs, then click through to learn more.

    Today, we’re launching a new Search experiment in Labs – Audio Overviews, which uses our latest Gemini models to generate quick, conversational audio overviews for certain search queries. Searching for a topic you’re not familiar with? An audio overview can help you get a lay of the land, offering a convenient, hands-free way to absorb information whether you're multitasking or simply prefer an audio experience.

    Want to explore a topic further? We display helpful web pages right within the audio player on the search results page so you can easily dive in and learn more.

    To try it out, opt into the experiment in Labs. When our systems determine it might be useful, you’ll see the option on the search results page to tap to generate a short audio overview on the topic of your query. You can give a thumbs up/down on each discussion, and the experiment as a whole in Labs.

    Wow, an even less efficient way to get answers than watching a fucking YouTube video...

  • Wow, an even less efficient way to get answers than watching a fucking YouTube video...

    And you already know they're gonna autogenerate audio-ads and product placements in these summaries as soon as people start using them.

  • Get an audio overview of Search results in Labs, then click through to learn more.

    Today, we’re launching a new Search experiment in Labs – Audio Overviews, which uses our latest Gemini models to generate quick, conversational audio overviews for certain search queries. Searching for a topic you’re not familiar with? An audio overview can help you get a lay of the land, offering a convenient, hands-free way to absorb information whether you're multitasking or simply prefer an audio experience.

    Want to explore a topic further? We display helpful web pages right within the audio player on the search results page so you can easily dive in and learn more.

    To try it out, opt into the experiment in Labs. When our systems determine it might be useful, you’ll see the option on the search results page to tap to generate a short audio overview on the topic of your query. You can give a thumbs up/down on each discussion, and the experiment as a whole in Labs.

    Oh, Google...

    Just eviler and eviler every day. Not only robbing creators of any monetization via clicking on links but now just blatantly stealing their content for an even more efficient theft model.

    FFS. I can't fucking wait to complete my de-googling project and get you the absolute fuck completely out of my life.

    I've developed a hatred for Google that actually rivals my hatred for Apple.

    🤦♀🙄 🤡 🖕 💩

  • AI Job Fears Hit Peak Hype While Reality Lags Behind

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    The company I work at has an AI-related job freeze. At the same time, AI is in the evaluation phase in the company and hardly anyone uses it for anything really. There are surveys, and they all say that AI can help a little bit in some niche circumstances, but that for most of the work it really does nothing. Also, the AI evaluation is entirely driven by some curious employees and doesn't really have anthing to do with upper management. In fact, upper management doesn't want to pay the AI subscription fees.
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    I wouldn't call it unprecedented, just more obvious
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    And yet so many people still refusing to switch to Signal, even tho Whatsapp is officially declared unsave by the government.
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    This is a tough one for me: I'm opposed to femicide, but I only wish the absolute worst on influencers.
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    That’s not the right analogy here. The better analogy would be something like: Your scary mafia-related neighbor shows up with a document saying your house belongs to his land. You said no way, you have connections with someone important that assured you your house is yours only and they’ll help you with another mafia if they want to invade your house. The whole neighborhood gets scared of an upcoming bloodbath that might drag everyone into it. But now your son says he actually agrees that your house belongs to your neighbor, and he’s likely waiting until you’re old enough to possibly give it up to him.
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    Im all for making the traditional market more efficient and transparent, if blockchain can accommodate that, so long as we can also make crypto more like the traditional market. At least in terms of criminalizing shit that would obviously be illegal to do with securities
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    Apparently, it was required to be allowed in that state: Reading a bit more, during the sentencing phase in that state people making victim impact statements can choose their format for expression, and it's entirely allowed to make statements about what other people would say. So the judge didn't actually have grounds to deny it. No jury during that phase, so it's just the judge listening to free form requests in both directions. It's gross, but the rules very much allow the sister to make a statement about what she believes her brother would have wanted to say, in whatever format she wanted. From: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/18471175 influence the sentence From what I've seen, to be fair, judges' decisions have varied wildly regardless, sadly, and sentences should be more standardized. I wonder what it would've been otherwise.
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    Wow... Just learned about that NOW. I wanted to play some games today and wondered why my account doesnt work nor the "forgot password"-Function... Fuck Meta. Fuck Oculus... Fuck this whole Enshittification that is going on lately... Is there ANY Way, to get my CV1 to run Without an account?!