We’ve just launched a new browser extension called “SlopGuard” which does AI image generation detection locally inside your browser! You can get it from the Chrome Web Store here. Note: before you click the “Add to Chrome” button, you should know that this is a very large extension (400M), so it will take a few […]
It feels like something has changed in the last few months when it comes to building software. While AI code generation has been around for a while now (GitHub Copilot launched in June 2022), the tooling seems to have recently reached the point where it can build credible, releasable software. To get beyond vibes and […]
My last story about ChatGPT scraping Google and leaking prompts received a lot of attention, and I was especially pleased to see that OpenAI said that they’ve fixed the issue. So what was “the issue”, and what did they fix? My research with Slobodan Manić on the topic showed two things: Some raw ChatGPT prompts […]
UPDATE: Thanks to Ars Technica’s reporting on this story, OpenAI has claimed to have fixed the leakage but that this only affected a “small number” of prompts. Based upon what OpenAI has said and the speed of the response I think it’s most likely that the glitch was related to the layer of ChatGPT that […]
by Jason Packer with help from Juliana Jackson “.. the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” – Scott Fitzgerald, 1936 We’re at a dangerous inflection point in AI, where soon there may be so […]
Google has long offered a “Google Analytics Certification” quiz. For GA4, it’s 50 questions (from a pool of 150) that cover a broad range of topics within GA. The quiz is timed, and in order to be certified, you have to score an 80% or better. Since the quiz is open book and most of […]
A new LLM model seems to be released every week. AI experts and influencers immediately start talking about where new model excels, and why you should drop whatever you’re using now and getting in on the new hotness. It’s very hard to know when this analysis is based upon actual data, and when it’s just […]
by Jason Packer with contributions from Juliana Jackson People in our field of analytics come from lots of different backgrounds. It’s such a common trope that we don’t generally think about this fact. Sometimes, people regret this, like, “Oh, I wish I had started in analytics earlier in my career so I knew more about […]
