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This is a complicated situation, so let me break it down. ChatGPT has a share feature that lets you easily send info to another user with a link. But apparently the info in these semi-personal discussions with the "AI" chatbot was posted somewhere that Google could crawl and index. And this allowed it to be easily searchable with the very basic Google instruction, "site:chatgpt.com/share." Even though the queries searchable this way were probably only a tiny fraction of the massive volume of what ChatGPT users actually generated, it still had some, ahem, interesting things to search through.
ChatGPT's owner OpenAI was, predictably, not thrilled that such a huge volume of searches were going through, potentially including lots of semi-personal information. To be fair, users had to manually make these posts shared in the first place, and the warning "Anyone with the URL will be able to view your shared chat" appeared each time the function was used, and then also had to opt-in to it being shared with search engines. Nonetheless, they shut it down double-quick.
According to a post on Twitter/X from OpenAI's co-chief information security officer Dane Stu
This is obviously a problem in need of fixing, and OpenAI's answer is a Study Mode that's now baked into ChatGPT. The idea is to stop students from simply asking ChatGPT to tell them the answer to a question, and to have ChatGPT teach them how to answer the question for themselves.
Will this work? Possibly. Maybe. Probably not. Either way, I gave ChatGPT's Study Mode a spin for ourselves to find out what it's capable of - and I wound up utterly loving it.
How to enable ChatGPT's Study Mode
Asked about the possibility of Amazon "tapping into…advertising" with Alexa , Jassy noted that Alexa offers a "delightful shopping experience" and that "there will be opportunities as people are engaging [in] more multiturn conversations to have advertising play a role to help people find discovery and also as a lever to drive revenue."
Then Jassy went a little further, adding that "over time…as we keep adding functionality that there could be some sort of subscription element beyond what there is today."
So, what's Jassy saying here? Is there a possibility that in the future, Alexa might give a "sponsored" answer to a question, similar to the sponsored results you see at the top of search results?
And that leads to another possibility in terms of a "subscription element beyond what there is today." Might there eventually be an ad-free tier for Alexa , and if so, would that put Prime subscribers in the position of having to pay more for an Alexa free from ads, similar to what's going on now with Prime Video? (It was TechCrunch that raised the specter of an ad-free Alexa tier.)
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The Golden Globes is expanding beyond film and TV with a new category. It will dole out an award for the best podcast of the year starting at next January's ceremony. Organizers told Variety that the idea was to recognize the influence and reach of podcasts within the spectrum of entertainment.
Six finalists will be selected from the 25 most popular podcasts across audio and video formats (sorry, middle-aged dads who spent hundreds of dollars on recording gear to grouse about their team in their basement studios). So it's likely that more celebrities could appear on the show.
Amy Poehler and Trevor Noah have podcasts that are among the 25 largest in the US on Spotify. SmartLess — the show hosted by actors Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes — is on the list too. As such, the best podcast award feels like a ploy by the Golden Globes to get more stars on the show, which would make it quite funny if, say, The Daily won instead.
It feels like an odd move for the Golden Globes (which started handing out an award for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement last year) to wade into the podcasting world. Still, it's nice to see a mainstream awards ceremony shining a spotlight on podcasts. There are dedicated awards shows for podcasts, but the Golden Globes is putting them on a bigger stage.
Other awards shows have been refining their category lineups. We'll soon start seeing a long-overdue category for
