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CNN and USA Today have fake websites, I believe Forbes Marketplace runs them(larslofgren.com)
760 points by greg_V 2y ago|265 comments
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by greg_V 2y ago
Same. I live in a poor neighborhood but it has two dope parks, a swimming pool, cool places. The map tells me I'll get murdered at the streets I cross literally every day and night
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An idea: Things that do not exist (yet) do not exist(tante.cc)
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Forbes Marketplace: The Parasite SEO Company Trying to Devour Its Host(larslofgren.com)
646 points by greg_V 2y ago|299 comments
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by greg_V 2y ago
Twenty odd years ago when I was moderating a forum as a teenager, we had to proactively nuke memes (or demotivationals as they were called) because the images ran up our server costs, which we were paying out of pocket money. Now everyone c
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by greg_V 2y ago
"no no, it's not that the technology has reached it's current limits and these companies are bleeding money, they're just withholding their newest releases not to spook the normies!"
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Excess memes and 'reply all' emails are bad for climate, researcher warns(theguardian.com)
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by greg_V 2y ago
The number one use case for this will be to beat KYC checks, which means KYC procedures will get more annoying and bothersome for everyone else!
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by greg_V 2y ago
With how the market is looking as of today, the next YC batch might have a promising carrier pigeon startup and a ridesharing blip services that monetizes with ads!
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by greg_V 2y ago
They need search for different reasons: it's their biggest moat against Meta by being the start page of the internet for a great many number of people. A whole lot of browsing sessions start with search and end with search, and this wa
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by greg_V 2y ago
out of all the metaphors the author could've used. why not just go with a gardening example? friendships grow like trees, they need tending and they grow stronger with age. especially because we're all familiar with friendships th
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Excuse Me, Is There AI in That?(theatlantic.com)
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Microsoft retires CoPilot GPT Builder after 3 months(coverager.com)
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by greg_V 2y ago
It's a convoluted way of saying "use value" vs. "exchange value". A million dollars is a million dollars, or it's a house. I don't need a million dollars but I do need a house or I freeze to death. I can&#
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by greg_V 2y ago
I'm not in the US but am familiar with some politicians here, and they too have a problem with recognizing that the feed they received is personalized, the comments are not representative, etc. If you're wondering why politics som
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by greg_V 2y ago
I had the "pleasure" of working for someone who would take the AI's word over mine in my domain of expertise. It was a hair-ripping experience to say the least and I'm while I'm not there anymore, from what I can se
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by greg_V 2y ago
Jokes on you, I bet there's a good portion of CEOs who just use chatgpt in their day-to-day life instead of reading up on stuff, thinking through it and making decisions
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by greg_V 2y ago
Re: the 30% fraud figure. An interesting book just came out last month that speculates on the amount of fraud / wasted clicks / impressions in the ecosystem https://dl.bookfunnel.com/6kwmi0qlsq TL;DR it's pre
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by greg_V 2y ago
I mean... maybe, but not really. The first problem of the internet was that there wasn't that much content specifically. The first internet companies were the broadband providers who were developing content themselves, like AOL. Google
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by greg_V 2y ago
Wait until Monday and see how the stock reacts
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by greg_V 2y ago
Technically everything an LLM does is hallucination that happens to be on a scale between correct and non-correct. But only humans with knowledge can tell the difference, math alone can't. It's not even a bug: it's the defini
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by greg_V 2y ago
Oh it gets even better. The public has been hearing about AI this and AI that for over a year, but the existing use cases and deployment was confined to some super special niches like writing or the creative industries and programming. This
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by greg_V 2y ago
The jury will decide on the latter. At any rate, Altman made clear allusions to hint that they are capable of synthesizing ScarJo's voice as a product feature. The actress retaliated saying she verbally did not consent, and now OpenAI&
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by greg_V 2y ago
The inflammation vs. psychiatric disorders link is very interesting. See also some findings about the gut biome, which is also involved in the process: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7830868/
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A reflection on the impact of artificial-intelligence on cognitive health(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by greg_V 2y ago
We had this in content writing and marketing last year. A lot of layoffs were going to happen anyway due to the end of ZIRP, AI came just at the right time, and so restructuring came bundled with "..and we are doing it with AI!".
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by greg_V 2y ago
Marketing doesn't happen in a vacuum. The creative industries have been having it rough for the past year and a half, and there's practically an internet war going on between AI prompt using artists and real ones. Add to that the
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by greg_V 2y ago
Worse is how it's completely asymmetric. For example micro-donation based services such as charities are flooded with fraud because they are a prime avenue for card testing. It's also a volume question. If you have low margins but
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by greg_V 2y ago
That's absolutely overzealous and usually gets fixed in a day or two. The worst I've seen was someone blocking entire IP ranges due to fraudulent activity. Once their overall sales started declining, they realized they managed to
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by greg_V 2y ago
The 2010-2013 timeline was also when the problem of ad fraud exploded. Google even acquired a company (or multiple, if I recon correctly: https://www.ft.com/content/352c7d8e-9acc-11e3-946b-00144feab... ). You had these

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