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John Herrman

@jwherrman
62 posts
2025-08-05
How is the SEO industry responding to the AI-driven collapse in Google traffic?  By pivoting to “GEO,” and thinking up ways to influence, trick, or introduce bias into chatbots — and, of course, by using AI themselves nymag.com/intelligence...  [images]
2025-08-05 View on X
New York Magazine

Search-engine optimization feels dated as marketers look to generative-engine optimization, or GEO, which focuses on tricking AI chatbots rather than Google

Search-engine optimization now feels dated.  Generative-engine optimization is all about trying to trick AI chatbots.

2025-05-07
this is about AI but it's really about hustle culture, which is american culture nymag.com/intelligence...  [image]
2025-05-07 View on X
New York Magazine

How ChatGPT and other AI tools enable systemic cheating in college, unravelling the entire academic project; one student says “the ceiling has been blown off”

ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.  —  Chungin “Roy” Lee stepped onto Columbia University's campus …

2025-04-21
This is a really thorough and sober ai-as-automation paper- passes through some of the same territory knightcolumbia.org/content/ai- a...
2025-04-21 View on X
Knight First Amendment Institute

A deep dive into AI as a normal technology vs. a humanlike intelligence and how major public policy based on controlling superintelligence may make things worse

An alternative to the vision of AI as a potential superintelligence  —  We articulate a vision of artificial intelligence (AI) as normal technology. Bluesky: @taumuyi , @knightcolu...

2025-01-18
this is specifically unconvincing, but also everything on threads has a similarly uncanny quality.  great platform [embedded post]
2025-01-18 View on X
Engadget

Zuckerberg says there's a “bogus narrative saying I blamed Sheryl for a bunch of stuff” and he was just addressing the origin of “bring your whole self to work”

Well, specifically, they want me to know.  —  On Thursday, The New York Times published a lengthy story …

2025-01-02
Meta's fake AI users sound like an abrupt and bizarre plan.  But they're just another step in a long, subtle process of alienating social automation nymag.com/intelligence...  [images]
2025-01-02 View on X
New York Magazine

Meta saying it expects AI characters to populate its apps is its friendly rebrand of an effective but alienating overhaul meant to automate social interactions

nymag.com/intelligence... @hypervisible : “A lot of formerly social aspects of a platform like Facebook, in other words, have already been automated and replaced with machine learn...

2024-11-02
Prediction markets are about vibes, too https://nymag.com/...
2024-11-02 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Polymarket user Fredi9999, a self-described Frenchman, says he bet $30M+ on Trump after analyzing polls; he can't exit his wagers without crashing the market

Any Guesses? Hristina Vasileva / Cryptopolitan : Polymarket whale carries large unrealized loss after injecting $7M in new Trump bets Turner Wright / Cointelegraph : Frenchman behi...

2024-09-10
this problem has gotten a lot more obvious since I tested it, now that iOS summarizes all sorts of notifications. it's a feature that'll launch a million viral posts https://nymag.com/...
2024-09-10 View on X
Washington Post

Testing the Apple Intelligence beta shows the prerelease software still has a long way to go, with hallucinations, marking scam emails as priority, and more

Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post :

this problem has gotten a lot more obvious since I tested it, now that iOS summarizes all sorts of notifications. it's a feature that'll launch a million viral posts https://nymag.com/...
2024-09-10 View on X
9to5Mac

Apple plans to launch Apple Intelligence in beta in October for US English language users, in more English countries in December, and in other languages in 2025

Apple today announced that Apple Intelligence will begin in beta starting in October, with iOS 18.1.

2024-08-01
the era of unilateral AI data scraping isn't just unethical, it's going to have enormous unintended consequences https://www.theverge.com/...
2024-08-01 View on X
The Verge

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says Microsoft, Anthropic, and Perplexity need to pay to scrape Reddit's data, and blocking them has been “a real pain in the ass”

After striking deals with Google and OpenAI, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is calling on Microsoft and others to pay if they want to continue scraping the site's data.

2024-06-14
Apple might be the only honest tech giant when it comes to AI [image]
2024-06-14 View on X
Wired

Apple's WWDC demos, with the integration of generative AI across its products, show the value of seeing AI as a feature rather than a standalone app or device

what's not to love? Michael J. Miller / PCMag : Apple Intelligence Satisfies Demand, But Doesn't Change the Game M.G. Siegler / Spyglass : “AI” is Apple's “Voldemort” Ben Thompson ...

Apple is still struggling to meet expectations it set in 2011, and years away from hitting the goals it set in 1987.  Seems like this could tell us something about how we think about AI! https://nymag.com/...
2024-06-14 View on X
Wired

Apple's WWDC demos, with the integration of generative AI across its products, show the value of seeing AI as a feature rather than a standalone app or device

what's not to love? Michael J. Miller / PCMag : Apple Intelligence Satisfies Demand, But Doesn't Change the Game M.G. Siegler / Spyglass : “AI” is Apple's “Voldemort” Ben Thompson ...

2024-03-19
it's obvious to anyone looking for it but there's a pretty big section of this place that is almost exactly the liveleak comments section from ten years ago, and another big section that's almost exactly 4chan, and of course they overlap a lot. pivot to ogrish
2024-03-19 View on X
New York Magazine

X's pivot to video mirrors past social media trends, but its reliance on user-generated videos from TikTok and other platforms may not ensure long-term success

X's New Video Strategy Is a Pivot to Nowhere Ananya Gairola / Benzinga : X Calls Itself ‘Indispensable’ With 8B Minutes And 1.7M New Users Every Day — But Users Question If It's Ma...

not a great sign when the most popular post on your entire platform is about how good *another* app is https://nymag.com/... [image]
2024-03-19 View on X
New York Magazine

X's pivot to video mirrors past social media trends, but its reliance on user-generated videos from TikTok and other platforms may not ensure long-term success

X's New Video Strategy Is a Pivot to Nowhere Ananya Gairola / Benzinga : X Calls Itself ‘Indispensable’ With 8B Minutes And 1.7M New Users Every Day — But Users Question If It's Ma...

elon musk's pivot to nowhere [image]
2024-03-19 View on X
New York Magazine

X's pivot to video mirrors past social media trends, but its reliance on user-generated videos from TikTok and other platforms may not ensure long-term success

X's New Video Strategy Is a Pivot to Nowhere Ananya Gairola / Benzinga : X Calls Itself ‘Indispensable’ With 8B Minutes And 1.7M New Users Every Day — But Users Question If It's Ma...

2024-03-14
tiktok doesn't really exist to the people deciding its fate, which could have some interesting consequences [image]
2024-03-14 View on X
Bloomberg

Memo: TikTok is “disappointed” that the US House passed the TikTok divestment bill, and reiterates its plans to lobby the Senate not to pass the legislation

TikTok told employees the company isn't planning to change its approach to protecting user data even after US lawmakers passed …

tiktok doesn't really exist to the people deciding its fate, which could have some interesting consequences [image]
2024-03-14 View on X
Washington Post

The US House passes a bipartisan TikTok bill that forces a sale or ban of the app; the legislation faces an uncertain Senate path without a companion measure

2024-03-08
welcome to the the era of democracy via un-dismissable app notification [image]
2024-03-08 View on X
Axios

Angry constituents flood congressional offices with calls following TikTok's push notification asking users to call their representatives about a possible ban

Tiktok is owned by an adversary of the US.  But so is Microsoft, Meta, Google, Twitter, Amazon, and most of the other tech giants. … X: Cat Zakrzewski / @cat_zakrzewski : Some Cong...

welcome to the the era of democracy via un-dismissable app notification [image]
2024-03-08 View on X
Semafor

The US House Energy and Commerce Committee advances a bill that would force ByteDance to divest TikTok, after TikTok's campaign reportedly enraged legislators

Semafor Signals  —  Insights from The New York Times, Financial Times, and CNN  —  The News

2024-01-27
looking forward the entire web being written in the tone of a ToS https://nymag.com/...
2024-01-27 View on X
New York Magazine

Chrome's upcoming “Help Me Write” experimental AI feature could be a key step in making the web a place where most words are written by bots instead of people

Starting next month, Google will begin rolling on a new experimental feature in Chrome, the most popular browser on Earth … Bluesky: @harbourfordyce.bsky.social . X: @jwherrman , @...

a chicken in every pot! a text generator in every posting hole!!! [image]
2024-01-27 View on X
New York Magazine

Chrome's upcoming “Help Me Write” experimental AI feature could be a key step in making the web a place where most words are written by bots instead of people

Starting next month, Google will begin rolling on a new experimental feature in Chrome, the most popular browser on Earth … Bluesky: @harbourfordyce.bsky.social . X: @jwherrman , @...