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Googling the word “disregard” no longer works as expected. Google’s latest round of AI-ification has finally prompted me to switch my default search engine to DuckDuckGo (which also has a Duck.ai option, but it’s easily switched off and ignored). Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. Smart glasses have at least one positive use: as assistive devices for the vision-impaired. But their negative uses proliferate by the day. A disturbing look at the variations of slop filling up social media. The AI bot army is glitching. Genre glitches and unexpected promotional phrases as a sign of AI writing. Unravelling AI’s knitting bullshit. Exhibit A. Image generators trained on professional photos have made the real thing look cringe. Finally, a reason to feel good about never getting as slick at photography as the pros. Deepfakes are everywhere, but the godfather of digital forensics is fighting back. Ed Zitron: “There’s allegedly incredible, unstoppable,…