It’s a question that might creep into your mind quietly and slowly, usually in the middle of pasting a sensitive email draft or a snippet of proprietary code into a chatbot: Is all of this used to train the next AI model? Is my chat private? Didn’t someone say that random people might look at …
One frustrating reality of AI assistants is that they can go from genius to clown from one day to the next. Yesterday, you had found the perfect workflow or the Holy Grail of prompts. Everything worked like magic. Today, the same tool with the same setup suddenly fails completely. The AI is ignoring your instructions. …
A surprisingly simple technique can dramatically improve how well artificial intelligence models answer questions: Researchers at Google have discovered that repeating a question twice in the same prompt boosts accuracy by as much as 76 percent for certain tasks. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that the finding challenges years of increasingly complex methods engineers have …
Generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini have become helpful partners for many of us in content marketing. They can speed up research, outline complex topics, and draft copy in seconds. It feels like a superpower. Until it doesn’t. Imagine this: You are deep in the flow of writing an important thought leadership piece …
Artificial intelligence has developed a distinctive writing style that readers are learning to identify almost instantly. From student essays to corporate communications, AI-generated text carries unmistakable markers that reveal its algorithmic origins. Sam Wolfson writes about this for the New York Times. He describes how AI writing relies heavily on specific patterns: the “It’s not …
Researchers have developed a method called Verbalized Sampling that uses a single sentence to make generative AI models produce more diverse and creative responses. The technique works on large language models like GPT-4 and Claude without requiring any retraining. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that this method addresses the common problem of AI models giving …
Content for online shops needs to change because its audience is changing: Your next “customer” might not be a human but an AI. You think this seems far-fetched? It’s not. It is a shift happening right now. The way people discover, compare, and buy products is being changed by AI assistants like ChatGPT, AI search …
Wikipedia volunteers have compiled an extensive field guide to detect AI-generated text on the online encyclopedia. The document lists dozens of writing patterns, formatting quirks and technical markers that signal undisclosed use of chatbots like ChatGPT. WikiProject AI Cleanup publishes the guide as an advice page for editors. The list draws on observations from thousands …
Large language models consistently claim that a seahorse emoji exists, even though no such emoji has ever been part of the Unicode standard. Theia Vogel reports on her website about this peculiar behavior and its technical causes. When asked about the existence of a seahorse emoji, models like GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and Gemini 2.5 …
What if we see generative AI not solely as a threat to creatives, but also a powerful new tool for creative expression? Don’t get me wrong: I’m very familiar with the fears and criticism around AI. Just have a look at the tag “Criticism” on this page. It’s important to acknowledge and document these discussions: …