Daily Minute Master Series
April 14, 2023
by Corey Padveen
News and Updates
FTC Fines Supplement Maker $600,000 for ‘Review Hijacking’ Amazon Listings
For the first time, the US Federal Trade Commission has fined an organization for “review hijacking.” In February, the agency accused The Bountiful Company, maker of the Nature’s Bounty brand of vitamins, of deceiving consumers. Between 2020 and 2021, Bountiful abused a feature of Amazon to make it seem like some of its newer supplements had higher product reviews and ratings than they did in reality.
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Using AI to Adjust Your Marketing and Sales in a Volatile World
Much has been written over the years about how firms lack visibility into the returns from their marketing investments. In an analog world, the perennial reason offered for this problem was difficulty establishing a causal link between investments made in marketing activities and the market (or customer) response to those actions.
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Someone Directed an AI to “Destroy Humanity” and It Tried Its Best
A user behind an “experimental open-source attempt to make GPT-4 fully autonomous,” created an AI program called ChaosGPT, designed, as Vice reports, to “destroy humanity,” “establish global dominance,” and “attain immortality.”
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Facebook Tests AI Generated Stories Based on Your Previously Shared Images
Facebook continues to explore ways to get more people posting to Stories, this time via a new, automated Stories generation process that uses image recognition AI to create new Stories from your shared content.
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Is Hate Speech on the Rise at Twitter 2.0?
Among the key concerns around Elon Musk’s takeover at Twitter has been the perceived relaxation of past regulations around hate speech, misinformation, and other concerning elements.
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LinkedIn Adds New ID Confirmation Elements to Provide More Assurance and Security
Verification has become a key focus for social platforms, amid rising concerns around identity theft, along with increasingly realistic looking AI bots and bot profiles, which can dupe unsuspecting users.
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