OpenAI will introduce an invisible watermark to qualifying ChatGPT and Codex texts within the European Union over the coming weeks. Their testing indicates that replacing certain words with synonyms can weaken the watermark’s effectiveness. In one test, substituting 25% of the words in 400-token English passages with synonyms lowered detection rates from approximately 92% to 17%. From…
A week in a Los Angeles mansion, dating lessons, a wardrobe upgrade, and PowerPoint presentations about plastic surgery. Welcome to Camp Looksmax. Hosted by streamer Braden Peters, AKA Clavicular (who was charged with rape in Massachusetts on Sept. 8; Peters’ attorneys have denied the allegations in a related civil lawsuit), and fellow creator Hexumlite, the…
Google’s Gary Illyes showed timing ranges for common Search processes at Search Central Live Deep Dive Europe in Barcelona, from discovering a new URL to settling a site move. The ranges also cover changes made on a website, including title updates and canonical changes. The figures come from a recap of the Oct. 2 session…
Welcome to the Pulse: This week’s updates include Google’s new guidance for AI-generated content, UTM tags on Gemini links, guidance on analyzing Q2 click-through data, AI Mode monitoring eligibility, and the latest on two AI Overviews lawsuits. Here’s what matters for you and your work. Google Adds A Manual Fact-Check Step To Its AI Content…
Leave it on and watch it. Shopify’s agentic storefronts put your products inside AI chat apps, and if your store is eligible, Shopify signs it up for every new app it adds. That is how eligible stores’ products reached Meta on 8 September 2026, the day Meta launched Muse. Muse is an AI agent that,…
If you spend time scrolling YouTube Shorts, you’ve probably seen plenty of podcast excerpts, livestream highlights, and interview clips uploaded by someone other than the original creator. Taking moments from podcasts, interviews, livestreams, or other videos and repackaging them as short-form content is called “clipping,” but now, YouTube wants those accounts to bring more to…
Scroll through social media, and you’ll likely see the same sentence repeated over and over: “I am Jane Doe.” From comedians to authors to creators to everyday users, people are lending their names to a movement aimed at protecting the identity of the former Cornell University student who alleges that seven Chi Phi fraternity members…
Pete Davidson has a lot to get off his chest. And, no, not just the tattoos. In a new Variety cover story and accompanying videos published Sept. 30, the comedian opened up about famous exes Kim Kardashian and Ariana Grande, discussed Ye’s harassment, took aim at influencer culture, and defended AI filmmaking. And, naturally, the…
On this, the final day of Bisexual Visibility Month, I must say my piece about a sexuality label controversy before I once again disappear into the ether until next September. It centers around musician King Princess, who identifies as a lesbian. This week, a Nov. 2024 appearance on the podcast Celebrity Book Club with Steven…
Alberta Tech didn’t start posting TikToks because she was plotting her escape from corporate America. She was bored. Like so many of us, cooped up at home in the early days of the pandemic, she started filming jokes, riffing on the absurdity of her tiny New York apartment and whatever else the For You page…