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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? That’s exactly what Google, Amazon, and Meta are doing today. They start to collect robber baron rents. It’s not our data.

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Sydney and the Bard

O'Reilly

It’s been well publicized that Google’s Bard made some factual errors when it was demoed, and Google paid for these mistakes with a significant drop in their stock price. Large language models like ChatGPT and Google’s LaMDA aren’t designed to give correct results. What are the next steps?

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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

The surest way to ignore such misalignment is by focusing exclusively on technical questions about AI model capabilities, divorced from the socio-economic environment in which these models will operate and be designed for profit. The internet protocols helped keep the internet open instead of closed. But it is far from alone.

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AI Powered Misinformation and Manipulation at Scale #GPT-3

O'Reilly

GPT-3 is essentially an auto-complete bot whose underlying Machine Learning (ML) model has been trained on vast quantities of text available on the Internet. Indeed, Google recently announced LaMDA , a model at GPT-3 scale that is designed to participate in conversations. The Arms Race. Targeted Manipulation at Scale.

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Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF)

Smashing Magazine

Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential part of a website’s design, and one all too often overlooked. The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). From UX design to copywriting, quality content takes commitment, passion, and time.

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Improving Core Web Vitals, A Smashing Magazine Case Study

Smashing Magazine

LCP, or Largest Contentful Paint , is one of the three Core Web Vitals that you must “pass” to get the full search ranking boost from Google as part of their Page Experience Update. From an SEO perspective, it doesn’t really matter what other tools tell you, GSC is what Google Search sees. The issue was that LCP was too slow on mobile.

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Compatibility Testing – An introduction

Testlodge

Software testers explore the effectiveness of processes that should lead to quality software products to make sure they perform the purpose for which they have been designed. Results may vary because of factors like resolution, internet speed, and different OS versions. Media may not play on some environments.

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