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4 Ways Nonprofits Can Beat AI Blandification

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Thats the problem. ChatGPT and Gemini repackage all that information, rendering it into headlines, social posts, and emails crafted to feel human. Generative AI is like a ginormous digital Encyclopedia Britannica that compiles the internets knowledge base and immediately plops it on a screen. It is essentially a vast rearview mirror.

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Iceland built 1,756 wheelchair ramps in the past 4 years. Why can’t other countries do that?

Fast Company Tech

After making his mark in Silicon Valley, Icelandic designer and tech mogul Haraldur Halli Thorleifsson is now solving a far more analog problem: the inaccessibility of local storefronts. “These problems have been discussed for decades, often with very little progress. So the approach was really to give people no excuses.

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Meta will soon roll out Community Notes, a whitewashed version of Elon Musk’s fact-checking system

Fast Company Tech

Images: Meta] An unsolvable problem? Metas own oversight board has pointed out huge problems with the plan. Furthermore, the study only assessed the accuracy of headlines and ledes, not full articles. The old third-party fact checking suffered from similar latency problems. And because just 12.5%

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5 common AI mistakes that are derailing your job search

Fast Company Tech

Why its a problem: AI can help you with structure and grammar, but it cannot capture the nuances of your personal brand or unique career story. Why its a problem: These AI tools are good at mass applications but are not great at tailoring your application to each job and company. But if you stop there, youre hurting your chances.

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Early-stage startups say no runway, no problem heading into 2023

TechCrunch

Startup funding continues to dwindle and layoffs keep making headlines as 2023 nears. Early-stage startups say no runway, no problem heading into 2023 by Rebecca Szkutak originally published on TechCrunch. And yet, pre-seed and seed companies don’t seem to be enduring the same state of panic as their more mature startup peers.

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Mutiny, which personalizes website copy and headlines using AI, raises $50M

TechCrunch

Jaleh Rezaei, the CEO of Mutiny, believes that the problem doesn’t lie with the ads themselves. “I faced the ‘conversion problem’ firsthand when I ran marketing at Gusto,” Rezaei told TechCrunch via email.

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Twitter’s massive outage may be over, company says ‘no evidence’ of hack

The Verge

Twitter has been experiencing an outage that began in the early evening on Thursday, with some users reporting problems sending tweets and refreshing their timelines starting shortly after 5:30PM ET. Update 7:04PM ET : Added new statement from Twitter and updated headline. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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