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IA do Google encurta caminhos e limita descobertas

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By Henk Van ess
| Poder360 Verified
O Google está reformulando a ferramenta de busca para responder em vez de apontar. Ela ainda mostra as fontes –só que agora decide, antes de você, quantas você precisa. Neste texto mostro a solução e por que os operadores antigos importam mais agora do que nunca. Em 19 de maio, o Google anunciou a maior mudança em sua ferramenta de busca em 25 anos: uma IA que lê a web e fornece o veredito, além de agentes em 2º plano que pesquisam enquanto você dorme. Para um usuário casual, isso é conveniência.
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Why AI detection fails on the fakes that matter most

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By Henk Van ess
| digitaldigging.org
Last Thursday, AI-generated videos of a snowstorm in Kamchatka, Russia went viral. My own tool, ImageWhisperer, flagged them. BBC Verify quoted my analysis. Newsrooms on three continents had been fooled. Then people came to test my tool — and discovered some serious flaws. Hybrid fakes got missed entirely. Obvious fakes get scored as “maybe.” Why does this happen? Most AI detectors work like calculators — they output a number. They need to work like detectives — really look at the evidence.
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They Droned Back

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By Henk Van ess
| digitaldigging.org
Seven German journalism students tracked Russian-crewed freighters lurking off the Dutch and German coast—and connected them to drone swarms over military bases. Let me walk you through what Michèle Borcherding, Clara Veihelmann, Luca-Marie Hoffmann, Julius Nieweler, Tobias Wellnitz, Sergen Kaya, and Clemens Justus pulled off. I should disclose: I know them well.
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