1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.

2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.

3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."

4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.

so i wanted to throw in some suggestions that, whenever I’m trying to find a character reference or otherwise draw very interesting-looking yet regular-looking people, which i usually have to do for bit characters in @ikroah​ or something, I tend to look for references in the following places. these are far from the only reliable way to get inspiration, this is just a non-exhaustive list of places i’ve looked before for visual inspiration when needing to create a character, whether starring characters or background ones:

pre-2000s television (The Sopranos and Twin Peaks especially having incredible character design)

extras in comedy sketch shows

esports players

real photos (not staged stock photos) of line cooks

70s baseball players

athletes from more obscure olympic sports like the javelin toss or greco-roman wrestling, especially if you’re looking for a specific body type

ska, jazz, and blues musicians

firefighters

improv troupes

for teenagers, searching “high school english class project” on youtube and sorting by Upload Date

state senators, small-town mayors, and generally obscure local government positions like comptroller or treasurer (yes i know politicians can be bad sometimes but smaller elections especially don’t really depend on looks)

people who walk by your window (if you live in a city like I do)

Dungeons and Dragons

A Daughter's Dream

Rating: General Relationship(s): Original Dungeons & Dragons Character & Original Dungeons & Dragons Character Description: Coppelia remembers her father

Inkpot Gods

Rating: General Relationship(s): Original Dungeons & Dragons Character & Original Dungeons & Dragons Character Description: You woke up alone

Pokemon

Leagues Apart

Rating: General Relationship(s): Satoshi | Ash Ketchum & Shinji | Paul, implied Satoshi | Ash Ketchum/Shinji | Paul Description: Ash's exabition match provides inspiration to a former rival at a key time

Deltarune

Punch Drunk

Rating: Teen Relationship(s): Noelle Holiday/Kris Description: A half rewrite, half "What if" of the BBQ scene in chapter 2 of "Flirting Lessons" by jastard

Dungeons and Daddies

50 Regrets

Rating: Teen Relationship(s): Nick Close | Nicholas Foster/Terry Jr. Description: Terry tries to categorise his feelings after the Betrayal via a list of regrets. He's not sure it helps

The After

Rating: General Relationship(s): Nick Close | Nicholas Foster/Terry Jr. Description: It takes a while for the weight of The Betrayal to settle on Terry. It's fair to say he's not coping well with it

Atonement

Rating: Not Rated Relationship(s): Nick Close | Nicholas Foster/Terry Jr. Description: After a mission goes wrong, Terry is captured by the FBI and tortured. Their goal? To find where Nicholas Foster is. Could this be Terry's chance to redeem himself?

August Slipped Away (Like a Bottle of Wine)

Rating: Teen Relationship(s): Nick Close | Nicholas Foster/Terry Jr. Description: Bittersweet, Grief/Mourning, Emotional Hurt/Comfort

Best Friends, Lovers, Enemies, Soulmates

Rating: Teen Relationship(s): Nick Close | Nicholas Foster/Terry Jr., Nick Close | Nicholas Foster & Terry Jr. Description: Relationship Study, Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Fluff and Angst, Hopeful Ending

The Boy Who Swallowed The Sun

Rating: Teen Relationship(s): Nick Close | Nicholas Foster & Terry Jr., Nick Close | Nicholas Foster/Terry Jr. Description: (Vampire Terry Jr) Terry Jr and Nicky are hanging out, just chilling and playing guitar. Seems like Terry's a little hungry, though.

Cinnamon Kisses

Rating: Teen Relationship(s): Nick Close | Nicholas Foster/Terry Jr. Description: Nicky has another nightmare. Fortunately, his boyfriend is there to help ground him.

Closer than Entwined Mycelium

Rating: General Relationship(s): Sparrow Oak/Terry Jr. Description: Sunlight was the most important part of a date. There are several reasons why this was true, but the most important to Sparrow was this: Terry Jr's skin glowed beautifully in the sunlight.

Clouds and Sunshine

Rating: Teen Relationship(s): Sparrow Oak/Grant Wilson Description: A collection of Spant writing requests that I've done over on Tumblr

Coffee and Sunlight

Rating: Teen Relationship(s): Veronica Stampler-Marlowe/Cassandra Swift Description: Veronica and Cassandra go on their first date

The Creature Called Guilt

Rating: General Relationship(s): Veronica Stampler-Marlowe/Terry Jr. Description: Terry Jr's regrets, from Veronica's perspective

Darling, You're So Pretty, It Hurts

Rating: Explicit Relationship(s): Nick Close | Nicholas Foster/Terry Jr./Cassandra Swift, Nick Close | Nicholas Foster/Terry Jr., Cassandra Swift/Terry Jr., Nick Close | Nicholas Foster/Cassandra Swift Description: Nicky and Cassandra invited Terry to be their third for the night. And they're determined to show her a great time

An Evening in the Doll House

Rating: Mature Relationship(s): Nick Close | Nicholas Foster/Terry Jr. Description: A slow evening at the Freeman-Stampler household takes a somewhat kinky turn, much to Terry's surprise and delight

Go Doodlers

Rating: Not Rated Relationship(s): Nick Close | Nicholas Foster & Lark Oak & Sparrow Oak & Terry Jr. & Grant Wilson, Background Canon Relationships Description: Post S1, group chat fic

Growing Pains

Rating: Not Rated Relationship(s): Lark Oak & Sparrow Oak Description: (werewolf Sparrow Oak) It's another full moon in the Oak-Garcia household. Sparrow's just dealing as best as he can.

A Home to Come Back to

Rating: Teen Relationship(s): Nick Close | Nicholas Foster/Terry Jr. Description: A look at what Nicky and Terry mean to each other, and what their relationship means to the both of them

I'll Sing Silence

Rating: Teen Relationship(s): Nick Close | Nicholas Foster & Lark Oak & Sparrow Oak & Terry Jr. & Grant Wilson Description: It was a small garden party, a little celebration for Ron and Darryl's brewery. Nothing particularly anxiety-inducing, really. Which of course makes it the perfect time for Terry to go non-speaking.

An Irrefutable Truth

Rating: Not Rated Relationship(s): Nick Close | Nicholas Foster & Lark Oak & Sparrow Oak & Terry Jr. & Grant Wilson Description: When they did not know themselves, they knew each other like a dogma, and the others knew them just as well. Through each other, they could learn themselves. A kiddads relationship study about certainty, and the absence of it

Jodie Foster's Totally Normal and Completely Brilliant Plan

Rating: Mature Relationship(s): Jodie Foster & Nick Close | Nicholas Foster, Glenn Close & Nick Close | Nicholas Foster, Nick Close | Nicholas Foster & Lark Oak & Sparrow Oak & Terry Jr. & Grant Wilson, Nick Close | Nicholas Foster & Terry Jr., Nick Close | Nicholas Foster/Terry Jr. Description: Once again, Jodie had come up with a fantastic idea. He's not really sure why everyone's looking at him like he's lost his mind. --- In which Jodie has ridiculous schemes, Nicky gets the demon puberty talk, and no one's entirely sure why Terry Jr got dragged into this.

The Last Letter

Rating: Teen Relationship(s): Nick Close | Nicholas Foster/Terry Jr., Veronica Stampler-Marlowe/Terry Jr. Description: Before the fateful final D.A.D.D.I.E.S. mission, Terry leaves behind a final note to someone very important to him - Nicky Freeman.

Makeup Sex

Rating: Mature Relationship(s): Nick Close | Nicholas Foster/Terry Jr. Description: Just two friends testing out makeup before prom. Totally, platonic, right?

'Mercedes, Why Are You Sleeping With My Mother?'

Rating: Teen Relationship(s): Autumn Oak/Mercedes Oak-Garcia, Henry Oak/Mercedes Oak-Garcia Description: In a way, it made complete sense. Mercedes was very, deeply attracted to her husband. Why wouldn't that attraction extend to his equally hot mother?

A Moment with You

Rating: Mature Relationship(s): Nick Close | Nicholas Foster/Terry Jr., Implied/Referenced Poly Kiddads Description: If you asked Terry, the best part of sex was after it. And this was his favourite.

Nesting Instincts

Rating: Teen Relationship(s): Nick Close | Nicholas Foster/Terry Jr. Description: It is very, very difficult to be mad at someone when they're buried in a blanket nest, Nicky was finding. Especially when that someone was your sort of ex who you're still in love with

The Night Before

Rating: Teen Relationship(s): Nick Close | Nicholas Foster/Terry Jr. Description: Terry’s shameful first thought as he looked at the flamethrower on the table was that he was glad Nicky hadn’t moved in yet. This way, at least, he didn’t have to worry about how to spend their last night together --- The night before the betrayal, and Terry's final thoughts about him, Nicky, and how they ended up here.

On Being and Unbeing

Rating: Teen Relationship(s): Nick Close | Nicholas Foster & Terry Jr., Nick Close | Nicholas Foster/Terry Jr. Description: Notes from the spellbook of wizard and scholar Terry Junior Steven-Stampler, on personhood, the soul, memories, life, and death, particularly concerning the cases of Frank Wilson & Paeden Bennetts, and Nicholas "Nicky" Freeman or Terry processes the fact that his best friend, for all intents and purposes, died. And that maybe he did too

Playing Dolls

Rating: Explicit Relationship(s): Nick Close | Nicholas Foster/Terry Jr. Description: Nicky started absently toying with her fingers, slowly curling and unfurling each one. It seemed he’d completely forgotten she was even a person. “Oh! This is a turn-on for you.”

Pretty On Her Shelf

Rating: Explicit Relationship(s): Nick Close | Nicholas Foster/Terry Jr. Description: Nicky peeped his head round the door to see Terry, wearing a gorgeous blue dress, bleached locs casscanding down her back, perfectly still and serene. Ah. It was a doll day.

Prom Night (co-authored with @anoctoberpepper)

Rating: Teen Relationship(s): Nick Close | Nicholas Foster/Terry Jr., Nick Close | Nicholas Foster & Lark Oak & Sparrow Oak & Terry Jr. & Grant Wilson Description: The kiddads get to be "normal" teenagers for once and go to prom. It goes about as well as you'd expect

Pyjamas and Movies for Two

Rating: Teen Relationship(s): Nick Close | Nicholas Foster/Terry Jr. Description: Terry gets sick, and Nicky bullies her into letting him take care of her

Soaking Up Those Summer Nights

Rating: General Relationship(s): Nick Close | Nicholas Foster/Terry Jr. Description: Tooth-Rotting Fluff

Sun and Sweat

Rating: Teen Relationship(s): Sparrow Oak & Grant Wilson, Sparrow Oak/Grant Wilson Description: Sparrow invites Grant over to help her install new planter boxes in her garden. He's very platonic about it

These Hallowed Halls

Rating: Teen Relationship(s): Nick Close | Nicholas Foster & Lark Oak & Sparrow Oak & Terry Jr. & Grant Wilson Description: It's normal, after life-changing trauma, to feel inhuman. It is not quite as normal to actually be inhuman. or It's obvious to the residents of San Dimas that those boys have come back irreperably changed. Just not quite in the way they would expect

Triple Dog Dare

Rating: Not Rated Relationship(s): Nick Close | Nicholas Foster & Terry Jr., Nick Close | Nicholas Foster/Terry Jr. Description: And there was something else. Something unspoken, slowly stirring up the deep-seated feeling of guilt. Samantha set her mug down and looked at him, pleading. "I need you to promise me something." "Of course," Nicky said, unthinking. Anything for Terry's safety, to soothe them both. "Please," her voice was soft, but oddly determined, "promise me you'll bring him home, no matter what."

Trust an Arsonist

Rating: Mature Relationship(s): Sparrow Oak/Grant Wilson Description: Grant would like to say she didn’t know how he ended up here, but that wasn’t quite true. The answer was, as it always is, because of Sparrow. Sparrow and her stupid, sunshine smile

Unquenched, Unquenchable

Rating: Teen Relationship(s): Scary Marlowe & Terry Jr. Description: Scary is hungry. The kind of hunger that warps your brain til it's all you can think about. The kind that leaves a pounding in your ears and desperation in every breath. Terry knows that that's like. or Scary's not coping well after being turned into a vampire. Fortunately, she's got her stepdad to step up and show her the ropes

Welcome Home

Rating: Teen Relationship(s): Nick Close | Nicholas Foster/Sparrow Oak/Terry Jr., Nick Close | Nicholas Foster/Sparrow Oak, Nick Close | Nicholas Foster/Terry Jr., Sparrow Oak/Terry Jr., Sparrow Oak/Rebecca Swallows-Oak-Garcia Description: Sparrow finally let the terse, fragile smile she had plastered on her face drop with a sigh. After today, she just wanted to spend time with her boys. In which an Oak-Garcia family dinner goes about as well as you'd expect, and Sparrow wants nothing more than to collapse on the couch and forget. Luckily, Terry Jr and Nicky are there for her.

what's your best secret // do you trust me

Rating: General Audience Relationship(s): Nick Close | Nicholas Foster/Terry Jr. Description: "Do you trust me?" One question, two timelines, five answers. One friendship.

When You're Just Memories

Rating: Teen Relationship(s): Lark Oak & Terry Jr Description: It had finally happened. One of them was gone. Dead. Why did it have to be Terry? --- Lark reflect on Terry's death, mere hours after it happens. It doesn't help.

Wish I Didn't Care (Why Aren't You Here)

Rating: Not Rated Relationship(s): Nick Close | Nicholas Foster & Terry Jr. Description: (Heavy Angst, Hurt No Comfort, Ficlet) You know how Nicky technically had to watch all of that? Yeah

Womb For Two

Rating: Mature Relationship(s): Sparrow Oak/Terry Jr. Description: When a mission goes sideways and Sparrow gets hit with a strange spell, it has some… interesting consequences. Luckily, they have the local infertile magic nerd to help them out.

Wood Against Wood (co-authored with @landrick-lycidas

Rating: Teen Relationship(s): Nick Close | Nicholas Foster/Terry Jr. Description: Terry and Nicky do some training in their spare time. If only Terry wasn't so easily distracted.

You're The Reason I'm Alone and Masturbate

Rating: Explicit Relationship(s): Nick Close | Nicholas Foster/Terry Jr. (past) Description: It's so depressing how the teardrops in my eyes // feel so much wetter than the space between my thighs --- When your guilt complex is so bad, you can't even get off without thinking about all the ways you're an irredeemably bad person

Zelda

Ooh! Okay so this isn't an exhaustive list because I'm not a tattoo expert, but the main ones that come to mind:

Getting tattoos of scripts you don't understand is a HUGE one. You mentioned Chinese and Japanese, but I will equally judge anyone who is getting a tattoo in Arabic or Sanskrit who is unfamiliar with the culture or language. You can't throw symbols together and call it a day, it's kind of been turned into a joke in comedy media but it's still disrespectful

Religious tattoos + their placement OMG. If you're getting a calligraphy tattoo that says Mashallah on your FEET 😭 Same thing with getting an Om tattoo and placing it anywhere below the waist.

I don't think it's my place to be like "you're never allowed to get tattoos of 'stereotypical imagery' like koi fish, cherry blossoms, or dragons," but I do have somewhat overlapping thoughts with cultural appropriation of attire (though not exactly because tattoos are more permanent). A person who walks past you on the street won't KNOW if you put in the work to understand, appreciate, or respect the culture. Unless it is an overtly hypersexual tattoo or thoughtlessly blends different cultural design elements together in a way people can easily call out, it's difficult to tell. They don't know your story or where you got it from, if you got it done in the native country, and in some cases, they may not even know if you're part Asian if you pass as another race. The intent would be clear after they have a conversation and they trust you more, y'know? You have to be willing to take that perception risk even if you did everything else right and supported Asian tattoo artists in their homeland. Also be willing to put in the advocacy work in other facets of your life because it does show when you're not ignorant

Of course, there are some Asian people who don't mind at all and think people like me are being too sensitive (again, similar to cultural appropriation of attire) because we should be proud people like our culture, but I have higher standards beyond gaining superficial approval

I was being facetious with the trick part lol but you know the joke "I might be racist, but you're mean and that's worse?" It's the root of that. We discussed it back when we read White Fragility. You can see it in Trump, Elon Musk, and your average Tumblr racist:

They really, REALLY want to be liked. Not just liked, no that's not the right word, but validated.

Think about it this way. Racism is the status quo; the default, right? Part of maintaining that default is through normalization, and that includes the solidarity necessary to reinforce that (DiAngelo called it white solidarity).

So, if being covertly racist is the status quo, then that means you will be socially rewarded for being so. When you get rewarded, people are nice, friendly, relatable, they keke and haha right alongside you. But when you confront someone's racism, you're not socially rewarding them anymore- the spigot of validation has been paused! Instead of taking it as a valid critique, you are seen as socially punishing a person. You're being MEAN, because the validation I got from everyone else's also-racism was NICE!

That's why when you confront racism, you HAVE to stand firm on it. You cannot feed into the desire for the validation of their behavior. That's what makes a lot of people snap. The blowup is meant to stop you, to force you back into compliance! The only one being punished really is you for bringing it up.

And hell, if not socially validating a bigot is punishment... 😐 Why would that be... A bad thing? We're not hitting you with rocks, we're just saying we don't fuck with you and your behavior. (But that's also a part of really all of the books we've read in #cbc book club so far; that antiracism is seen as violence.)

Kiddads week day 6 -Terry Jr.