Is there anything so sweet as helping yourself while helping others? Google just announced it will ban search ads that lead to annoyingly aggressive web sites, as defined by the industry-wide Coalition for Better Ads. The upside for Google is better customer experience should lead to higher ad rates.
This is one of a number of changes and challenges Meta has seen as Facebook’s market share has dropped, in large part due to Apple’s IOS privacy changes.
Amazon already has a far higher trust rating than almost anyone, so placing its Shop With Prime button on small retailers’ websites can only increase their sales. They just selected ecommerce tech vendor UpstarWorks to help expand the program. Is it rude to mention the deal also helps Amazon collect new customer data?
Unauthorized training data isn’t an existential threat to generative AI but it’s certainly a headache for users and developers alike. Most developers are trying to exclude materials that creators have explicitly labeled as unauthorized and citing “fair use” as justification for copying everything else. Getty Images has taken an opposite approach, building its gen AI tool only on materials that are explicitly licensed. It’s possible that tracing the provenance of training data will become a standard, similar to how organic food producers trace the origins of their ingredients.