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New Study: How Often Do AI Assistants Hallucinate Links? (16 Million URLs Studied)

ahrefsblog: “AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude can hallucinate URLs and direct visitors to non-existent pages on your website. But how often does it happen? To find out, we looked at the http status of 16 million unique URLs cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini, Claude, and Mistral. We found that AI assistants send visitors …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Save an entire web page as a single HTML file with just one click.

“SingleFile is a browser extension that allows you to save an entire web page, including all its resources (e.g., images, stylesheets, fonts, frames, etc.), as a single HTML file with just one click. The saved page can be displayed offline in any browser without needing to install any extension. Ideal for researchers, students, and professionals …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Google AI Mode may become default Google Search experience soon

Search Engine Land: “Logan Kilpatrick, lead product manager for Google, said on Friday that Google’s AI Mode will be the “default” search experience for Google Search “soon.” We know Google said AI Mode is the future of Google Search, Liz Reid, the head of Google Search announced that in May 2025. And now that may …

Subjects: AI, E-Commerce, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines

Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras

Premiered on YouTube August 26, 2025 [Note this video includes commercial interruptions] – “If you live in the United States, it’s very likely that a private startup has been logging and sharing your vehicle’s location without your consent. In this video we explore how AI can defend against being tracked by 3rd party police and …

Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, E-Government, E-Records, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, September 6, 2025

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, September 6, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly …

Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, Privacy

Army extends orders for DC National Guard through Nov. 30

ABC News: “The Army is extending orders for the Washington, D.C., National Guard to remain on active duty in the nation’s capital through Nov. 30, two U.S. officials told ABC News Thursday. President Donald Trump could still cut the mission shorter than Nov. 30 if desired — or extend the deployment past that date, the …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Courts, Free Speech, Legal Research

Reporter’s Guide to Detecting AI-Generated Content

Global Investigative Journalism Network – Reporter’s Guide to Detecting AI-Generated Content, Henk van Ess: “We’re approaching a point where the signal-to-noise ratio is getting close to one — meaning that as the pace of misinformation approaches that of factual information, it’s becoming nearly impossible to tell what’s real. This guide teaches journalists how to try …

Subjects: AI, E-Records, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Podcast – Fifteen Minutes of Fascism

Via Metafilter: “Fifteen Minutes of Fascism is a sadly topical podcast covering the global rise of the radical right. Listen every Thursday for news, analysis, historical background, and celebrations of the deaths of right-wing figures throughout history.” “Since 2020, a PhD candidate, now Dr. Craig Johnson has been putting out Fifteen Minutes of Fascism, “a …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Free Speech, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Slopaganda: The interaction between propaganda and generative AI

Slopaganda: The interaction between propaganda and generative AI. Michał Klincewicz, Tilburg University, Mark Alfano, Macquarie University,  Amir Ebrahimi Fard, Independent Researcher “At least since Francis Bacon, the slogan “knowledge is power” has been used to capture the relationship between decision-making at a group level and information. We know that being able to shape the informational …

Subjects: AI, E-Records, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research