Fake AI-generated shops, ads flourish on Facebook

The new iPhone, the Nintendo Switch 2, anything KPop Demon Hunters-related: these are the trending holiday gift items this year. And if you’re on Facebook, there’s a nonzero chance they are actually gifts that cyber criminals are pretending to sell in order to scam Facebook users. These AI-generated products look like quality items, which the…

One mans online campaign to save a Hollywood icon

Most Americans seen the Cinerama Dome. Since opening in 1963, the Hollywood movie theater hosted dazzling film premieres and black-tie galas, its striking geodesic shape expertly framing celebrities and red carpets. The theater — designed by Pierre Cabrol of Welton Becket’s esteemed architectural firm — has also had cameos in legendary films, like Quentin Tarantino’s Once…

The Impact AI Is Having On The Marketing Ecosystem

I’m not someone who’s drunk much of the AI Kool Aid. I have sipped it. Swilled it around my mouth like you would an 1869 Château Lafite Rothschild. But I’ve seen enough cult documentaries to know you should spit it back into the glass. Do I love the opportunities it’s provided me in a work…

The Alpha Is Not LLM Monitoring via @sejournal, @Kevin_Indig

Adobe just paid $1.9 billion for Semrush. Not for the LLM tracking dashboards. For the platform, the customer relationships, and the distribution. Contrast: Investors poured $227 million into AI visibility tracking. Most of that went to tracking dashboards. The companies shipping outputs from agentic SEO raised a third of that. Adobe’s acquisition proves dashboards were…

Substack to require age verification for UK users

Newsletter platform Substack will require users in the UK to verify their age to comply with the Online Safety Act. The Online Safety Act, which went into effect late July this year, requires websites containing explicit content to install one of several possible ways to assure a visitor’s age, such as one’s banking information or…

The AI Consistency Paradox via @sejournal, @DuaneForrester

Doc Brown’s DeLorean didn’t just travel through time; it created different timelines. Same car, different realities. In “Back to the Future,” when Marty’s actions in the past threatened his existence, his photograph began to flicker between realities depending on choices made across timelines. This exact phenomenon is happening to your brand right now in AI…

What Xs new country based in feature tells us about fake accounts

Your suspicions about the user you’re arguing with on Elon Musk‘s X being a fake might just be true. That’s an experience that many users on X, formerly Twitter, are sharing since the platform’s new “About this account” page went live with its “Account based in” feature. Basically, each X profile now discloses the country…