Given that most of the chatbots are charging fees, and the core technology has been developed elsewhere [such as Open AI], it looks like a high-margin business. Also, these apps collect personal data and often share it with third parties like advertisers - a tried and true business model.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2qqxqgp9yno
A judge on Monday ruled that Google’s ubiquitous search engine has been illegally exploiting its dominance to squash competition and stifle innovation, a seismic decision that could shake up the internet and hobble one of the world’s best-known companies.
https://fluwatue.com/Google
Facebook and Instagram are the least privacy-sensitive apps out there, while X is the most at ease about sharing private data with third parties, according to new research.
Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram were found to be the most “data-hungry” of the 100 popular apps analyzed for the study carried out by a cybersecurity firm Surfshark.
https://cybernews.com/privacy/facebook-instagram-worst-apps-privacy/
Social media is one of the best ways to amplify your brand and the great content you’re creating. But it isn’t enough to just post content to social whenever you feel like it – posting at some times performs better than others.
According to a survey of 1000+ marketers, the best times to post on social media – across all industries and platforms – are 18:00hr to 21:00hr and 12:00hr to 15:00hr.
The best day to post is Friday.
Misinformation can easily lead to polarization which can then easily lead to authoritarianism. Combatting this cycle means putting factual information in front of people.
Today’s Doodle celebrates the 204th birthday of American scientist and women’s rights activist Eunice Newton Foote.
Foote was the first person to discover the greenhouse effect and its role in the warming of Earth’s climate.
Click through today’s Doodle to explore the process of Foote’s scientific discovery!
https://lapazbcs.xyz/EuniceNewton
Research shows that the hate speech policies of many platforms currently don’t comply with the human rights standards they claim to respect. So perhaps the right analogy for social media is not a lawless Wild West—but rather a place where no one knows when or how the ever-changing rules will be enforced. If so, the right path forward is not to make these rules even more complex.
https://wwwizzards.com/m2PmM0
How many so called "high-net-worth individuals" are out there??
I guess enough to make a post about it...
I call bull on that cause I know: high-net-worth individuals or not: you want to be comfortable as much as in any way possible where #comfortable is not a brand name!!
You need to start with being an independent contractor / freelancer using #telecommuting Means you are an independent entrepreneur, self-employed and work from where you wish!!
Wearing as you wish!
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-20/how-to-work-the-quiet-luxury-trend-into-your-office-attire
It's a sad reality......
A boat capsized and sunk with with hundreds of people still missing after the overloaded vessel capsized in the Mediterranean did not get 15% of the media coverage as the 5 super-rich that perished when on a - 250,000,-US $ per person - excursion to the sunken Titanic.
Conjecture CEO Connor Leahy warns that the moment when Artificial Intelligence outstrips human intelligence is not far away.
"There's more regulation on selling sandwiches than on 'God-like' tech"
https://wwwizzards.com/AIresearch
A baby hippo rescued from flooding in Kenya has found comfort in the friendship of a 100-year-old tortoise.
They took him to a wildlife sanctuary in Mombasa where he soon found a male tortoise with the same dark grey coloring as adult hippos.
The tortoise initially hissed at Owen, warning him to stay away, but according to park officials the pair have since become inseparable.
Like two fingers holding a marble, the twin rocks Les Jumelles soar into the sky at full moon. The imposing mountains are located in the north of the Swiss part of the Chablais massif - just a few kilometers from Lake Geneva.
Felines are one of the families of mammals most frequently depicted in books and films, as well as one of the most feared and loved. Do you think you know all about cats? You’ll be astonished by these animals’ characteristics!
There are 38 feline species on Earth. Apart from the domestic cat, the best known are the big cats such as lions, tigers and panthers. Yet there is a huge diversity of feline species, including the more “discreet” and often smaller species.
https://wwwizzards.com/felines
Twitter has blocked its users from sharing some links to its social media rival Mastodon.
Mastodon is divided into groups, called servers.
Twitter has blocked links to some of the largest servers which users would join, including the most popular "social" channel.
There is absolutely no evidence to support the suggestion that Mastodon contains malware - malicious software that can harm your device.
https://wwwizzards.com/twastodon
AT least he is (occassional) honest.....
"Banning the reporters I don't like....."
Forget all the doxxing BS, after all the @elonjet account has used publicly available information
So if you plan moving to Mexico prepare yourself for a few lessons of Grimm Brothers stories they (TelCel & Telmex) will dish you out. And most of all, consider very will what you believe….. talking the talk is cheap - they never walk the walk!
https://blog.metadesigns.xyz/
China's Great Wall Motor said on Friday it will invest 11.5 billion yuan ($1.81 billion) over the next decade to build electric vehicles in Brazil where its has taken over a factory from Daimler AG.
Baoding-based Great Wall, China's top pickup truck maker, said it planned to launch 10 new electrified products within three years in Brazil
Google's "indecision" over what system it wants to replace cookies has been criticised by some in the ad industry.
It comes as the technology giant said an interest-based user-tracking system, Topics, would now replace its earlier proposal, Floc.
One marketing executive said: "This constant indecision does not inspire confidence."
AIs that filter through millions of pictures and videos on Facebook, Instagram and Co. don´t always get it right - which means that art containing nudity sometimes gets labeled as being "pornographic". A few museums in Vienna even got banned on social media for posting nude art.
But the Vienna Tourist Board had an idea: Only Fans! They created an account on the adult-only platform, which allows depictions of nudity
https://youtu.be/T-vpWVikL8Q