Google's AI was asked about 15-minute cities. One in eight times, it treated the conspiracy as a fair fight.
Researchers fed Google's AI the exact language cookers use for chemtrails and 15-minute cities. One in eight answers argued their side.
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The Liberals promised $1.7 billion for electric trains that also run on diesel. Two weeks ago they scrapped the power line.
One Nation is polling 23 per cent in Victoria and wants renewable energy zones abolished. The Coalition has stopped saying net zero.
Labor will fix Victoria's potholes with prisoners paid up to $9.80 a day. The money comes from three delayed level crossings.
Ben Carroll was the state's roads minister from 2020 to 2022. He now wants a fourth term to fix the roads he oversaw.
Meta told a Kenyan court it could only be sued in California. Last week it settled there for $18 billion.
Abrham Meareg has waited four years for a hearing over his father's murder while 29 US states settled with Meta eight days into their trial.
Ben Carroll cancelled the Dan Andrews statue without using his name. Andrews said three years ago he never wanted one.
The $134,000 contract has not been cancelled, and a panel that does not exist yet will recommend who gets the statue instead.
Canada wouldn't sign a trade deal, so Trump renamed their lake "Lake America"
He announced it in the Oval Office beside a hand-lettered cardboard sign, and said the Atlantic and the Pacific might be next.
One Nation supporters are sharing anti-Muslim posts written in Indonesia by accounts with headscarves in the profile picture.
Meta pays those accounts by the click, and suspended seven of the 14 groups the Guardian identified only after the money had gone out.
A judge has ruled the Pentagon broke the law by branding an AI company a national security risk. It refused to build autonomous weapons.
Anthropic said no to two things and was blacklisted the same afternoon, and the competitor that said yes had a classified contract by that evening.
The machine police use copies your whole phone, including what you deleted. Nobody publishes how often it runs.
Cellebrite is already used by police in six Australian jurisdictions, and no agency reports how many devices it has emptied.
One Nation gave three different migration numbers in two days. Then Hanson deleted the old posts.
David Farley ran an agribusiness that imported farm labour, which makes the rookie mistake defence harder to sustain.
Data centres will be blocked from building near homes and schools. Queensland says it will let them run on coal.
Anthony Albanese takes the rules to national cabinet on Wednesday, and two governments are arriving opposed to the part that matters most.
Kids are quitting office jobs for the trades because AI got there first. The trades are not hiring either.
The job they were meant to learn on is being done by software, and the trade they are running to has been shrinking for years.
National
Coles listed a $130 case of bourbon at $27. The website went down and the orders were cancelled.
In May the Federal Court found Coles had advertised discounts that were not real, and its terms let it take back one that was.
Technology
An AI scribe invented a drug habit for a patient. Her specialist put it in a letter to her GP as a possible cause of her bleeding.
Rebecca Green was on workers' compensation when the made-up claim about psychedelic mushrooms went onto her medical record.
National
Labor's gambling deal rests on an opt-out register. Where opt-out already exists, fewer than one in a hundred people used it.
About 130,000 of SBS On Demand's 15 million accounts have switched betting ads off, and the new register has no start date.
National
Trump cut the US childhood vaccine list from 18 shots to 11. Australian vaccination has already fallen five years in a row.
About 80,000 Australian children are not up to date, and what parents now report is not cost or appointments but distress.
National
One Nation wants the tobacco tax cut 75 per cent. Nicotine consumption is already up 40 per cent since 2017.
The Nationals have taken more than $600,000 from Philip Morris, and a British American Tobacco lobbyist was One Nation's biggest Queensland donor in 2019.
National
Pauline Hanson still does not like Mardi Gras. Asked why twice, she had no answer.
Her party's new recruit Barnaby Joyce had called One Nation one of the gayest parties in Australia three days earlier.
National
Two cables broke inside a protected zone off Perth. The federal police told a review they don't monitor it.
Tracking analysis puts one vessel over the cable route for two weeks before both faults, and the repair ship is not due until August 26.
Technology
Anthropic is watermarking every word Claude writes, and it still can't tell you who wrote it
The invisible mark is being applied worldwide to meet European law. Anthropic says its own detector can only assign a probability.
Melbourne
Border officers found 298kg of cocaine hidden in a tractor shipped to Melbourne from Germany
Nobody has been arrested. Police are asking the public who the six taped boxes were meant for.
National
Pauline Hanson called it embarrassing. She didn't know the name of the leader she was defending.
Hanson attacked Albanese over his comments about Japan's prime minister, then could not name her — or Indonesia's president — in a new documentary.
Technology
Meta goes on trial this week over children with damages it estimates at $1.4 trillion
Four states say Meta built Facebook and Instagram to hook young users. The company's own settlement offer was $4 million.
National
Weight loss drugs linked to 62 reported deaths and more than 2800 adverse reactions in Australia
The TGA's database records suspicion, not cause, and the regulator has added three separate class-wide warnings to the drugs since December.