Digital Digging with Henk van Ess
Henk van Ess, Craig Silverman, Alex MahadevanHenk van Ess is an international expert in online research methods utilizing the web and AI. This newsletter has members from organizations such as BBC, Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft, NBC, Oracle, New York Times and Washington Post. Join now.
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Nobody Said Stop: Deep Inside the Rabbit Hole
How ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot keep the conversation going
A man spent thirteen hundred messages asking ChatGPT to check his theory about black holes. The AI chatbot told him he was ahead of 90 percent of published physics. It was...
Nano Banana 2 removed from Google Earth
Google has rolled back the image generation feature it launched in Google Earth on 30 July. The tool let anyone zoom to any coordinates, type a sentence, and get back a photorealistic image built on Google’s own satellite, aerial and 3D ima...
How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
UPDATED, see Nano Banana removed from Google Earth after 24 hrs
Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in...
Another 96,477 "private" chats went public
It is not just ChatGPT, but also Claude, Gemini, Grok, Copilot and DeepSeek
A husband whose wife had just left him, opening a conversation in a chatbot with: "Can this stay between us?" A retirement letter carrying a technicians full name,...
So you still think you can Google?
You can refuse to be spoon-fed by Googles new AI search. Here's the toolkit.
Google is rebuilding Search to answer instead of point. It still shows you the sources — it just decided, before you did, how few you’d need. Here’s the fix, and...
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