Your Privacy and how you have none

[6souls]

Over the past week, Samsung has been pushing their AI lock screen via a whole-screen ad that appears when you go to unlock your phone (I just got hit). To remove it; "Hold down on the lock screen and lock screen edit will pop up. There is a setting to remove ai wallpaper"



Edit: The apps "All Apps" or "FolderWall" force the ai ad and should be removed

[6souls]

https://www.theverge.com/news/921944...legal-agent-ai

Microsoft has built an AI for Word named "Legal Agent" whose purpose is to assist lawyers with document editing, negotiation history, and handling complex documents within repeatable tasks. Microsoft's goal is to help attorneys trust AI with their legal work.

[6souls]

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...tions-3361241/

From the creator of the Roomba comes the Familiar. A bonding creature that can read human emotion.

Colin Angle, the inventor of Roomba, has unveiled a new robot called the Familiar, an early prototype that offers a sort of robot pet with the intention of providing emotional interaction inside a cute, fluffy, weird sheep-looking design.

This adorable companion isn’t like his previous vacuums, which won’t apologize when they tread more mud into your carpets in an attempt to clean them up. Instead, it’ll be specifically trained to be emotionally intelligent, interpreting tone of voice, body language, and mood to act instead of any commands.

The Familiar will focus on the way the human responds, recognizing and identifying people, and adjusting its behavior based on who it is interacting with, with the aim of completing jobs that require a little more trust.

Familiar Machines plans to market its products to people who want to monitor their loved ones, such as an aging parent or other dependent adult living alone.

[6souls]

https://faunarobotics.com/
https://www.reddit.com/r/robotics/co...auna_robotics/

Sprout, brought to you by Fauna Robotics & Amazon, the humanoid robot companion.

- Got Sprout walking, crouching, crawling, dancing and even jumping.

- The robot was able to correct for perturbations and imbalances showing robust control policies.

- Done full-body VR teleop with a Meta Quest (Fauna’s app worked great)

There is a Disney partnership currently in the works, too.

[Melena]

Pretty sure Megan touched on what happens with AI robot companions.

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[6souls]

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/go...ow-it-is-over/
https://x.com/CultureCrave/status/2056888377178509373

Beginning next Tuesday, Google search is getting an overhaul that provides more AI answers and less search results.

Instead of returning a simple list of links, Google Search will drop users into AI-powered interactive experiences at times. Google is also introducing tools that can dispatch “information agents” to gather information on a user’s behalf, along with tools that let users build personalized mini apps tailored to their needs.

With the revamped Search experience, the new search box simply expands to accommodate longer, more conversational queries, rather than making you decide what type of search experience or mode you want to choose at the start of your query. It will also have a new AI-powered query suggestion system that goes beyond autocomplete to help people craft more complex and nuanced queries, Google says.

Google is also introducing agentic capabilities and AI-powered interactive features into the search experience. This means people will spend even less time clicking the traditional blue links that Google Search used to return.

Starting this summer, people will be able to create, customize, and manage multiple new “information agents” within Google Search. These agents can work in the background 24/7 to track changes on the web and alert you to new information. For instance, you could have an agent track market movements based on customer parameters, Google suggests.

[Zealot]

Awesome, finally time to stop using Google for good.

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[Outlaw]

Hopefully someone will come up with a way to flood the AI with billions and billions of extremely complex tasks. Think of a DDoS attack only way better. The AI has to pull more juice to keep up with demand, the servers and hardware at the data center are taxed beyond their limits, they heat up and catch on fire. The data center burns to the ground.

In all seriousness though everyone use DuckDuckGo from now on.

[arus2001]

Gonna say that's generally unlikely since a lot of systems function on "token" limits, so trying to push processes that exceed that will just be met with an incomplete output or not get run at all. Best you could maybe hope for is something like with Amazon where the AI gets fed something that winds up overwriting key systems and takes them down. However, if you're a smart programmer, you're also making regular backups so you can restore from the nearest point while patching the vulnerability.

Pragmatically, though, it isn't just AI that's been fucking up google searches. It's people paying to be listed higher and the Discordification of information that you may never be able to find if you don't know the right servers or hope they don't get nuked. Poking fun at reddit is fun and all, but Discord's just as bad.

[6souls]

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/go...ow-it-is-over/
https://x.com/CultureCrave/status/2056888377178509373

Beginning next Tuesday, Google search is getting an overhaul that provides more AI answers and less search results.

https://www.threads.com/@ihy.wes/pos...ZnM-qCn&slof=1

If you search for definitions for words that are also ai prompts, Gemini will respond as if it is receiving a command. Also, you can remove ai summaries on Google if you type -ai after your search term.

[Tyrath]

I was searching for a specific post from r/aita on google yesterday and the fucking google AI gave me its own NTA judgment.

[Outlaw]

DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/26/du...les-ai-search/

the following words caused Google Search's AI Overview to glitch:

Disregard
Dismiss
Ignore
Skip
Start
Stop
Quit

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/...s/90219026007/

^^

[Kaisha]

Which is funny, when you consider DDG has ai-shit on by default, just not to the extent Google does.