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Google's new AI mode is good, actually

(simonwillison.net)
129 points xnx | 3 comments | 07 Sep 25 14:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.002s | source
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YuriNiyazov ◴[07 Sep 25 16:08 UTC] No.45159426[source]▶
The example itself that Simon puts up is questionable. I might be wrong about this, but I thought I read elsewhere that the “buy, scan, destroy” method was explicitly not the problem, and instead the issue was that anthropic downloaded libgen, and the settlement was for libgen.

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45143392

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gundmc ◴[07 Sep 25 16:15 UTC] No.45159504[source]▶
Yeah, you're right! The answer is definitely misleading at best. It would be better if the sentence "This method was a major component of a copyright lawsuit settlement that Anthropic paid in September 2025." was removed.

I'm sure this method _did_ come under discussion in the lawsuit & settlement, but as you pointed out the settlement itself was only about pirated works.

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1. nunez ◴[07 Sep 25 17:40 UTC] No.45160397[source]▶
Welcome to subtle misinformation as truth everywhere. "Ministry of Truth" might be a good name for this phenomenon.
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2. ojosilva ◴[08 Sep 25 06:59 UTC] No.45165360[source]▶
Yeah, it's amazing how fast people can overlook incorrect results when the form is in the spotlight. Or the AI rhetoric is convincing or plausible.

I recall a tweet by Altman, leaking the launch of GPT-5, praising their new model's answer to a prompt about thought provoking TV shows about AI. The X thread that followed was about the form ("em-dashes are still there!") and nearly nobody cared to evaluate that neither shows recommended were about AI. They weren't, or at least, were very debatable as belonging to the genre.

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3. nunez ◴[08 Sep 25 13:58 UTC] No.45168352[source]▶
I especially liked how the image inside of a link I shared of an example of GPT-5's (in)ability to rank states was decented sans warning...