‘Slop’ is the dubious online content churned out by AI
Among the huge mass of content now produced by artificial intelligence, much is unreliable and of poor quality. This phenomenon…
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How home swapping became the trendy alternative to Airbnb
Offering your home in exchange for a stay at someone else’s place is far from a new concept, but this…
Microsoft’s UK CEO says tech giant has more LinkedIn vacancies than it did before AI boom
The jobs market is “changing right before our eyes”, the UK boss of Microsoft says, but not necessarily to the…
Grab’s chief product officer says generative AI is an ‘accelerator’ in its drive to get more people using the app without ‘friction’
While Grab has been using AI in its product development for years now, generative AI has changed the game by…
Booking.com sounds alarm on AI-enabled travel scams
As travellers rush to book their summer getaways, Booking.com’s Internet safety boss says watch out for supercharged AI scams.
348 Hongkongers, including 50 students, fell victim to fake online job ads in May
Police advise students who are interested in finding summer jobs to be wary of falling into ‘click farming’ trap.
Companies crave fresh data to train AI models. This startup’s recipe? Data made from scratch – by AI
Ever since OpenAI’s ChatGPT sparked the generative AI boom in 2022, it’s been clear that having the right data, and…
The AI influencer ads are coming
If you are scrolling through TikTok and see an ad, it is likely that the person trying to sell you…
US government assails Adobe for putting up ‘wholly unnecessary’ roadblocks when subscribers try to cancel
It’s now a dozen years since Adobe became the poster child for what marketing folks and techies used to call…