AI
The Politics of TikTok, Reddit explained, and Google gamed Paid Members Public
Could a US ban on TikTok trigger a social media power struggle? And how did the Verge use ChatGPT to game Google?
AI is about to take misinformation to a new level Paid Members Public
AI generated misinformation is going to be a nightmare to verify. Plus a big Google update, YouTube gets serious about podcasting and some rules for curation.
Weekend Reads: social media cycles, AI and a podcast car crash Paid Members Public
Insights into the decline and fall of social networks, the audience capture of celebrities — and the surprisingly dangerous nature of podcasting.
Weekend reading — from the serious to the silly Paid Members Public
From lessons we should learn from the coverage of Nicola Bulley’s disappearance, to AI copyright, to that weird, mysterious content on TikTok, it’s all here.
Readers Write: on ChatGPT search, Twitter changes and Mastodon Ice Cubes Paid Members Public
Thoughts from the lovely OM&HB community about types of search, the impact of Twitter’s changes — and a freebie Mastodon app.
What is a newsletter? Paid Members Public
Rethinking how we conceptualise newsletters, why you should ignore the podcast doom-mongers and more in today’s updates.
Why the Twitter road crash is more serious than you think Paid Members Public
Plus the growing evidence that AI chat search is far from ready for prime time, and some great reads on both how ChatGPT actually works and what’s behind “hot, lonely women” catfishing scams
Friday Five: misreporting Mastodon, dangerous deepfakes and tanking Twitter Paid Members Public
Is Mastodon really tanking? Who’s making a mint from newsletters? And who are these eerie newsreaders spouting propaganda? Your weekend reading, sorted.
