🧠 AI does to your brain what sitting does to your body

New study "AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking" by Michael Gerlich has alarming results.

www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15...

EU cookie banners: humanity's last defense against AI! 🍪

So, you've heard the hype: 2025 is the year AI agents take over our jobs. But a recent study suggests we might keep our desks a bit longer.

arxiv.org/pdf/2412.14161

I will just leave this here...

The Guardian investigation found that you can influence ChatGPT results by hiding instructions in hidden text.

2005 called and they want their SEO spam tactics back.

How the relationship between SEO and brand has changed.

5 years ago: You could use SEO to build a brand
Today: SEO is how you monetise a brand.

Unexpected use case for AI... letting my 6 year old daughter talk to Gemini.

Her prompt: "Can you draw. like a paper for drawing that is Rapunzel to color." The best part is watching her amazement and surprise when her wishes materialise on the screen.

I've been testing the Deep Research feature of Google's Gemini AI, and one thing is clear: top-of-the-funnel traffic and display ads are done.

In the future will we optimise our websites to autonomous agents like this and hope that they take our message to the human decision makers. Kinda like a modern implementation of having a secretary screen your calls.

deepmind.google/technologies...

Reddit is skipping the middleman and launching their own AI search. Soo.. if Reddit search is usable, what's the point of Google anymore?

www.searchenginejournal.com/reddit-integ...

The reason I'm not a fan of AI is because it scales the cost of bullshit to zero. And that's far more detrimental to our online and social spaces than the marginal legitimate benefits AI has.

Analytics is the greatest lie performance marketing sold to the world. I know you don't trust your GA4 data - nobody does. It just feels wrong. We want to go back to the "old analytics" where we had the whole picture.

Please wake me up when AI becomes useful or interesting.

[1/2] Is the Vatican running out or money and turning into an affiliate site? Or is this just another sign how broken Google is at the moment? Regardless, The Holy See ranking for "best cbd gummies" wasn't on my bingo card for 2024. Yet, here we are.

A client just sent me this. He was wondering if the service works as advertised...

Have to admit I almost fell off my chair when I saw this page 🤣