Cheat Sheet: Search & Privacy
Here’s a list of 10 reporters who cover privacy-based search engines. They can probably be targeted for more general privacy-related pitches as well.
Here’s a list of 10 reporters who cover privacy-based search engines. They can probably be targeted for more general privacy-related pitches as well.
[SWMS contributor Rachel Odenweller writes:] Historically, few of us have thought much about data privacy, either from a personal perspective or the perspective of clients. But in 2020 privacy came into focus with several data breaches, fears of government surveillance and the continuing saga of Big Tech regulation challenges.
[SWMS contributor Rachel Odenweller writes:] As logic would suggest, the more we rely on data, the more at risk we are for cyber attacks. In addition to the myriad struggles 2020 presented us with, it was also the most active year for cybercrime. Reports suggest that cybercrime rates during COVID-19 — from ransomware to phishing — have spiked at rates between 40 and 400 percent.
[SWMS contributor Rachel Odenweller writes:] Over the past five or so years, we’ve been seeing more tech companies in the congressional hot seat as the attention on the ethics of their business practices grows, both in terms of data privacy and market activities.
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Fortune editorial fellow Rachyl Jones wrote this 1,300-word feature that mentioned Neutrogena 29 times. An exec from Neutrogena’s parent company was quoted four times. Fortune ran Neutrogena’s art. Yet Neutrogena was not mentioned either in the headline or the lede. The headline: “Face-scanning AI apps are giving cosmetics companies deeper connections, and selling points, with customers.” There was no reporting done on any other app.
Says GPT-4: “The primary focus of the article is on Neutrogena’s utilization of AI technology.” Says Google Gemini: “This story is about Neutrogena’s AI skin analysis service called Skin360.” Says Claude 3: “This story is about Neutrogena’s AI-powered skin analysis service called Skin360.”
Can you imagine the frustration in Neutrogena comms? Fortune’s design — in sections and on author pages — permits only the headline to show. That’s all the reader has in order to decide whether to stop and read. All that time invested with no mention of your company where you need it most.
Here is the application to the U.S. patent office. You can already talk to OpenAI’s ChatGPT app. That was only the beginning.
Bloomberg last year announced its own AI technology, BloombergGPT, designed to help investors make decisions. BloombergGPT was built to draw from the treasure trove of data Bloomberg built over the years. Now word has emerged that after spending $10M on the project, BloombergGPT cannot outperform GPT 3.5 on comparable data.
Kyle Wiggers filed this powerful investigative piece on all the dreck you can find in OpenAI’s GPT store. Expect more digging like this from multiple TC reporters, under the direction of new bosses Connie Loizos, Matt Rosoff and Julie Bort.
Fortune and Adweek have said as much. Foundry/IDG closed its CMO publication last year. Marketing Week columnist Mark Ritson has a hilarious response to all this “horseshittery,” as he describes it.
The site AP Buyline launches Mar. 18, according to Axios. The AP wants to recommend some products and services to you. Even the newswires are diversifying.