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Looks like Chromebook is being replaced with something called "Googlebook" and it is full-scale Microsoft-style Surveillance PC. Apparently anytime you "wiggle your cursor" anything that is underneath the cursor gets fed into Google's surveillance AI blog.google/products-and-platf…

One of these things that makes me consider detecting the platform from my webserver and blocking it entirely because the probability of whatever I wrote becoming an LLM input is too high

Introducing Googlebook, designed for Gemini Intelligence

We’re introducing Googlebook, a new category of laptops designed for Gemini Intelligence and perfectly in sync with your Android phone.
Alex Kuscher (Google)
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Since the Google announcement wording also poses this as not just the future of Chromebook but the future of Android, this raises serious questions, for me, about how much longer using Android will continue to be an option. Google's been escalating removal of Gemini opt-outs and Android is almost the only one of their products I haven't yet dropped as a result. (This is, of course, happening at the same time governments worldwide are making citizenship contingent on owning an Android or iPhone.)
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Regular Dude

I’m a huge fan of Android and was quite involved in the development / xda community back in the day. Made friends I still talk to this day over building Android. Now it makes me anxious to think about using it. Gemini buttons are everywhere, my photo data, health data, messages, apps, keyboard and app usage and I could go on continuously builds a massive mind map of my life for the benefit of?
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@otte_homan @zambezi what i believe display name moves is that the state is moving in the opposite direction of banning it. they are moving in the direction of requiring it. if google is scanning everything, this is helpful to certain parts of the government because they can subpeona the scans.
@Otte Homan - remember Geordie @display name
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Trantion

> Gemini’s helpfulness right to your fingertips, quite literally. Just wiggle your cursor and watch it come alive with Gemini

At last, a device offering "look at the screen to activate the LLM"

> You can tap a phone app, get that order out quickly and get back to it. Or if you get a reminder for your daily Duolingo language lesson, you can pop over and finish it without ever leaving your screen. It just works.

Wow, multitasking on a laptop?! Sign me up!

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Aprettyture! [0172]

the like number one question i have whenever i see anything like this is just like.
who wants this??? what does this solve????????

like every single time i see a brand do this it doesn't. solve anything?? it just introduces new problems

like, their example of it being useful is it prompting you to "share your japan pictures" or whatever and then it just fucking opens your pictures folder when the button to do that is literally right there like ????? who is this helping

legitimately this bubble is so perplexing to me

- carrie

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we hate that it's at this point. we've stayed away from implementing UA-specific behavior or UA detection, ourselves, because it feels surveillancey and controlling. we've seen how that stuff plays out too many times to trust ourselves with it... good intentions don't even count in Horseshoes.

but we also believe in diversity of tactics and think you should pursue whatever strategy you believe in, after you've considered everything you can

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oatmeal

“Surveillance PC”

We need a system to name and categorize the distinct harms #AI will unleash upon humanity.

The "Magic Pointer" feature works by wiggling your cursor: it uses Gemini to offer contextual suggestions for whatever's under the pointer. The cursor is literally reporting what you point at back to Google (Gemini).

#google #gemini #aicon #aihype

#ai #google #gemini #aihype #aicon
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Michael Vilain

The surveillance PC mentioned in LITTLE BROTHER will be defeated. And probably in someplace like Canada or Finland or Poland, where they don't care if you threaten the country with tariffs for ignoring DCMA. They already have tariffs.

I'm sure someone will figure out how to overwrite the firmware so you can load linux on the thing. It took how long for Chromebooks to become crap?

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