This post was sponsored by AnswerShare. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. You’ve been working hard on AI visibility. Your company is finally showing up when prospective customers ask questions about your market. You earned the mention. You’re in the conversation. What a win! Then someone asks a more direct question:…
You’re scrolling through your TikTok For You page, watching videos, when suddenly a pop-up appears on your smartphone screen. “Congratulations! You have been selected for our Screentime To Cash program,” reads the prompt, which looks a lot like a TikTok notification. These types of ads suggest that TikTok users can get paid to watch videos;…
Anthropic’s prompting guide for Claude Opus 5.5 advises developers to test multiple effort levels instead of reusing the setting used in Claude Opus 5. It also suggests chat applications remove system-prompt lines instructing Claude to think carefully before responding. Opus 5.5 launched Sept. 22. The guide says Opus 5 prompts should still work well without edits,…
Flock CEO Garrett Langley is avoiding the public. Last week, as individuals testified to Flock’s flaws in front of the U.S. Senate’s Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, Langley stayed home. He sent a letter in his stead. But a group of ignited internet users believes the CEO, who runs an $8 billion surveillance technology company…
You might first come across Clavicular in a clip about his jawline or his first, second, or eleventh plastic surgery. Stay a little longer, and you may find yourself watching him assess women’s appearances, discuss their sexual availability, or reduce them (along with men) to categories in an online hierarchy of attractiveness. For viewers, it…
Google has published a research paper about detecting spam that mimics a human manual review that catches content that violates the “spirit” of policy violations and platform guidelines. The system is called Scaled Abuse Forensics Examiner (SAFE) and it is expressly designed to identify AI-generated content. Paper Is Opaque And Withholds Information The research paper…
Not every link inside an AI Overview is the same. Google’s posts describe links placed next to the answer text, article suggestions at the end of a response, previews of online discussions with links to the thread, and, since January on mobile, a follow-up question that opens a conversation in AI Mode. In Search Console, clicking on…
Back in early February, popular messaging app Discord announced that it would roll out age verification in order to keep its teenage users safe on the platform. By the end of the month, after facing significant backlash, Discord announced that it would be pausing that rollout while addressing some of the issues. According to Discord,…
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The nightlife minutiae of a small town in Massachusetts may not seem like traditional fodder for a 24-hour news cycle. But turn that drama into a more-than-1,500-word Boston Globe article, sprinkled with apéritifs for online discourse? Well, that’s a recipe for virality. That’s what happened when the Globe reported on a recent public skirmish between…