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nilay patel

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Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
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Google Zero in the NYT - thanks @kateconger.com ;) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...

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  • Cloudflare data shows AI-training crawlers hit 52% of crawler requests by June 2026, up from 22% in spring 2025.
  • Google still supplies roughly 88% of referral traffic, but is answering more queries in-place via AI Overviews and AI Mode.
  • Human traffic to the most heavily crawled categories, including software, IT, retail and finance, has fallen as much as 40% in under a year.
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I don't know about Gemini but AI yes. In fact the papers are getting good enough to be a problem www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

AI-generated research papers are overwhelming peer review | The Verge theverge.com
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  • AI-generated academic papers now regularly pass journal peer review, evading both human reviewers and automated AI-detection tools.
  • Scientists identify mandatory data-sharing and reproducibility checks as the only remaining procedural safeguards capable of catching AI-fabricated research.
  • The crisis extends beyond arXiv's hallucinated-citation problem to affect broad peer-reviewed publishing across multiple scientific disciplines.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 3 ↻ 0 ↩ 1 · 3 from the directory shared this · 64d ago
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this new episode of the vergecast about how google’s push into ai summaries has broken a tenuous social contract with publishers is REALLY good it’s such an obvious example of google’s hubris that they assumed siphoning traffic and ruining their own ad business wouldn’t have a…

You can't ignore Google Zero anymore | The Vergecast youtu.be View on Bluesky →
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