Google returns with a wild music concert, the spooky implications of new AI programs, and the destruction of the human spirit!
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Takeways
- Google’s wacky guest musician for the preshow: Marc Rebillet
- Google announces an enhanced version of Google Lens and Gemini, capable of visual recognition, doxxing people, and spying through phones and glasses alike.
- Google announces Veo, a AI service designed to generate videos based on prompts. It’s not ready yet
- Google unveils a new system for detecting/watermarking AI generated content called SynthID. Unfortunately, the nefarious will reverse engineer what was added and remove it from generated content.
- Google Search now has a horribly inaccurate AI summarization field.
- PaliGemma, a new open-source machine vision model is announced. It’s not ready yet
- Android 15 exists…
- The Google Phone app gains the ability to intercept scam messages. Good for the unaware, but opens the floodgates to serious privacy ramifications. The service is opt-in.
- Gemma 2 is announced. It’s not ready yet
- Gemini becomes enhanced with Gems, a way to create personalized AIs for specific tasks or limited data sets. Only available for paying Gemini users and it’s not ready yet
- YouTube videos are now polluted with AI questionnaires.
Referenced
- Preshow, feat. Marc Rebillet (edited)
- Original Event (edited)
- Apple in Talks to License Google Gemini for iPhone, iOS 18 Generative AI Tools - Bloomberg
- Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find | 404 Media (Archive.org)
- Is Google Getting Worse? A Longitudinal Investigation of SEO Spam in Search Engines
- Taylor Swift nude deepfake goes viral on X, despite platform rules
- OpenAI’s Sora landing page
- Marques Brownlee’s Sora hot take, which is identical to what Winward said.
- Meredith Whittaker’s Twitter hot take on Pixel scam detection
- .dev domains, formerly owned by Google
- Squarespace Enters Definitive Agreement to Acquire Google Domains Assets
- Anonymous poop gifting site hacked, customers exposed
Track Listing
- Post event discussion: Khaim - SSS (Remix)
- Outro: Khaim - Neon Lamp