A glimpse of the extent to which genAI text is swarming the internet is provided by Originality.ai, the plagiarism checker. It estimates that more than 54% of longer (100 words-plus), English-language posts on LinkedIn are the work of generative AI. This actually represents a leveling off since ChatGPT originally launched when the growth in AI-generated posts spiked at 189%.
Scarily, this includes data on users’ menstrual cycles, reproductive health, past medical diagnoses and fertility treatments.
Robling and AnswerRocket are delivering a retail AI assistant named Max. Retailers can visualize their data and obtain insights through natural language conversations with Max. Max features on the new AI analytics platform that combines Robling’s data connectivity service with AnswerRocket’s genAI analytics consulting capabilities.
Changes in marketing channels and data access have made advertising measurement more important, and challenging, than ever. Taking advantage of growing interest in the topic, Bain Capital is selling Kantar Group’s audience measurement division, Kantar Media, to global investment firm H.I.G. Capital for “approximately $1 billion”. Kantar Media accounts for 4,500 of Kantar Group’s 25,000 employees.