It’s crazy to me how far we’ve gotten away from sanity. How long until Google starts fucking with summaries and inserting corporate opinions because a website contains content capitalism doesn’t align with? Like a website about anti-Zionism for example.
This is common practice. If you look at Google Maps in any other country, the name will not have changed. In the U.S., it shows the legal name within the U.S., which was updated by H.R. 276.
This is highly debatable. The wikipedia entry does not mention that name until halfway down:
Trump directed federal agencies to adopt the name “Gulf of America” for the waters bounded by the U.S. Some major online map platforms and several U.S.-based media outlets voluntarily adopted the change, but it also stoked controversy, with Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum and others objecting to the declaration
Comapring this bovine excrement to disputed borders leaves a very bad aftertaste for me.
I asked about the Strait of Hormuz, and it summarized information from Al Jazeera, the BBC, and Wikipedia. It added the following disclaimer:
Disclaimer: This information is based on reports from April 18–20, 2026, and the situation is highly volatile.
This seems reasonable.
When I asked about ICE illegal operations, it summarized and linked to the American Immigration Council.
This is not as good. If I’m asking about something done right now being illegal, I would like to see ongoing cases challenging the legality of the actions. I’d hesitate to call that bias instead of just bad results though.
The American Immigration Council is a better source than Al Jazeera for describing what ICE might be doing that is wrong, so I don’t consider that a valid criticism of this summary.
How long? Brother, controlling the narrative is the entire point of why AIs are being shoved down your throat
Wow the masses with their Mechanical Turk, then pull the strings behind the scenes whenever you need to tip the scale in your favor. Drive engagement with your product? Sus out new innovations that could threaten your business model? Manufacture consent for your international apartheid resource extraction project? Stifle populist grassroots political movements at home?
You already know it’s true because you laugh about Grok every time it truth-dunks on Elon. We’re all collectively like “wow he can’t even control it enough to share his warped PR version of reality” which means we fucking know why these things exist: to gaslight the human race to the will of the capitalist ruling class
But finding and synthesizing information is so hard. Not all of us are nerds who like spending all day on this stuff you know whats next stop using facebook products?
It’s crazy to me how far we’ve gotten away from sanity. How long until Google starts fucking with summaries and inserting corporate opinions because a website contains content capitalism doesn’t align with? Like a website about anti-Zionism for example.
I’d be surprised if this isn’t already happening or at the very least being tested on a smaller scale.
Oh yeah, it is definitely heavily biased already. Just google anything controversial and you’ll see it to some degree.
“Is ICE doing illegal operations” -> “Allegations…” Anything about the strait of hormuz -> straight up no summary whatsoever lmao
Google, tell me about the Gulf of Mexico.
Did you mean Gulf of America?
This is common practice. If you look at Google Maps in any other country, the name will not have changed. In the U.S., it shows the legal name within the U.S., which was updated by H.R. 276.
Similarly, disputed borders are drawn differently depending on which country you’re accessing Google Maps in to satisfy local laws. https://www.the-independent.com/tech/the-man-who-s-making-google-maps-smarter-9544478.html
This is highly debatable. The wikipedia entry does not mention that name until halfway down:
Comapring this bovine excrement to disputed borders leaves a very bad aftertaste for me.
I asked about the Strait of Hormuz, and it summarized information from Al Jazeera, the BBC, and Wikipedia. It added the following disclaimer:
Disclaimer: This information is based on reports from April 18–20, 2026, and the situation is highly volatile.
This seems reasonable.
When I asked about ICE illegal operations, it summarized and linked to the American Immigration Council.
This is not as good. If I’m asking about something done right now being illegal, I would like to see ongoing cases challenging the legality of the actions. I’d hesitate to call that bias instead of just bad results though.
I’m not sure where you are from, and perhaps it depends on the location!
I would definitely call it bias, because if it can summarize Al Jazeera for the Strait, it could certainly summarize Al Jazeera for ICE!
The American Immigration Council is a better source than Al Jazeera for describing what ICE might be doing that is wrong, so I don’t consider that a valid criticism of this summary.
It will be in the form of a “warning” or something.
How long? Brother, controlling the narrative is the entire point of why AIs are being shoved down your throat
Wow the masses with their Mechanical Turk, then pull the strings behind the scenes whenever you need to tip the scale in your favor. Drive engagement with your product? Sus out new innovations that could threaten your business model? Manufacture consent for your international apartheid resource extraction project? Stifle populist grassroots political movements at home?
You already know it’s true because you laugh about Grok every time it truth-dunks on Elon. We’re all collectively like “wow he can’t even control it enough to share his warped PR version of reality” which means we fucking know why these things exist: to gaslight the human race to the will of the capitalist ruling class
But finding and synthesizing information is so hard. Not all of us are nerds who like spending all day on this stuff you know whats next stop using facebook products?