By ResearchBuzz
EVENTS
The Verge: What to expect at CES 2024. “This year’s show kicks off from Las Vegas on Tuesday, January 9th and runs through Friday, January 12th, but you should expect news to start coming out as soon as, really, right now. Companies have been trickling out announcements over the past week, and many will try to preempt the conference with announcements in the days before the show floor opens up.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Search Engine Roundtable: YouTube’s Significant Drop In Google News Visibility. “It seems that YouTube is not showing up in Google News as often as it use to. Will Flannigan, the SEO Editor at the Wall Street Journal posted a chart from The Trisolute News Dashboard showing the drop in visibility experienced by YouTube in Google News.”
TechCrunch: Logan Paul promises CryptoZoo refunds, as long as you don’t sue him. “Logan Paul is offering refunds for CryptoZoo, the failed and allegedly fraudulent Pokémon-inspired NFT game that he launched in 2021. The catch? You can’t sue him if you get a refund. In an X (formerly Twitter) post on Thursday, Paul announced that he is ‘personally committing’ more than $2.3 million to buy back NFTs purchased through CryptoZoo. Claims can be submitted online until February 8.”
Genealogy’s Star: FamilySearch Year-in-Review 2023. “One interesting observation from this year-end report from FamilySearch.org is the extent to which artificial intelligence or AI is having on the website’s records. The searchable names and records continue rapidly increase, due in part, to the use of AI based handwriting recognition and AI assited Computer Aided Indexing or CAI.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Search Engine Land: TikTok ‘planning to rival Amazon with major U.S. expansion’. “TikTok Shop is a prime opportunity for brands as 83% of users make purchase decisions on the platform. If TikTok is planning a major expansion, marketers will benefit from being able to showcase their products to a larger engaged audience in the States, maximizing ROI.”
Variety: GroupM Teams With NBCU, Disney, Roku, YouTube in Bid to Bolster Streaming Ads. “GroupM, the large media-buying unit of European ad conglomerate WPP. is launching a group that aims to make the process of buying and placing ads in streaming environments easier for marketers. GroupM has formed a partnership with media owners Disney, Roku, NBCUniversal and YouTube, along with ad-tech firms including KERV, BrightLine; and Telly.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
BBC: Police investigate virtual sex assault on girl’s avatar. “Police are investigating a virtual sexual assault of a girl’s avatar, the chair of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners has said. Donna Jones said she had learned that a complaint was made in 2023, triggering a police inquiry.”
404 Media: Google Contractor Pays Parents $50 to Scan Their Childrens’ Faces. “Google is collecting the eyelid shape and skin tone of children via parent submitted videos, according to a project description online reviewed by 404 Media. Canadian tech conglomerate TELUS, which says it is working on Google’s behalf, is offering parents $50 to film their children wearing various props such as hats or sunglasses as part of the project, the description adds.”
Techdirt: Company Threatens To Sue Cyclist For Trademark Over ‘Near Miss’ YouTube Video. “While I’m sure this sort of thing must somtimes work, it’s also quite common for these would-be censorial folks to be introduced to the Streisand Effect instead, finding that the attempt to suppress negative information instead gains it far more attention than it would have had on its own. Well, allow me to introduce you to a company called Cornices Centre in the UK.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Daniel Stenberg: The I In LLM Stands For Intelligence. “Right now, users seem keen at using the current set of LLMs, throwing some curl code at them and then passing on the output as a security vulnerability report. What makes it a little harder to detect is of course that users copy and paste and include their own language as well. The entire thing is not exactly what the AI said, but the report is nonetheless crap.”
The Conversation: Jan. 6 was an example of networked incitement − a media and disinformation expert explains the danger of political violence orchestrated over social media. “What set Jan. 6 apart was the president of the United States using his cellphone to direct an attack on the Capitol, and those who stormed the Capitol being wired and ready for insurrection. My co-authors and I, a media and disinformation scholar, call this networked incitement: influential figures inciting large-scale political violence via social media. Networked incitement involves insurgents communicating across multiple platforms to command and coordinate mobilized social movements in the moment of action.”
WIRED: In Defense of AI Hallucinations. “It’s a big problem when chatbots spew untruths. But we should also celebrate these hallucinations as prompts for human creativity and a barrier to machines taking over.” Good morning, Internet…
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January 7, 2024 at 06:31PM
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