I’ve been dwelling on something my wife said after I sent her last week’s edition to proofread. She said, “this is good, but this is not fully you”.
“What do you mean”, I quipped. Her reply made me think a lot.
Here’s what she said: “Ankit, you are bringing up a lot of interesting topics and your headlines are great. But what I am missing here is you. You are sometimes getting lazy and expecting people to click links and read 800 word articles when you could so easily put the information and your perspective right there. People are not going to want to read a bulleted list of links. You should want people to subscribe to you for you. Even if it is just 20 people. Be you”
Let’s dive in!
quote of the week
Every few years, the SEO industry discovers a new way to mass-produce content and convinces itself that this time it’ll work.
Entertainment
some of YouTube is misleading
Source: Lucas Gouveia / Android Police
Has this ever happened to you?
You open the YouTube app and start browsing. You click on a video where the title and thumbnail seem to be so good that it might be the answer you were seeking to cure your boredom/inquisitiveness. Two minutes into the video, you realize that the title and thumbnail were misleading. You exit the video and rue your life choices.
The good folks at YouTube might have finally found a fix to this problem. I am not talking about the hover to preview, but something much better.
It is called “Discover videos with Previews”. Here are the details from their official support website:
I will watch this space for you and update when the rollout is more complete. Thoughts? Reply to this email or write to me at [email protected]
AI
Lawsuit alert: Open AI vs The Dictionary
A dictionary is suing Open AI (the folks who own ChatGPT). Actually, it’s Merriam-Webster, the people who brought you Encyclopedia Brittanica (you might remember this if you were born in the last century).
This lawsuit is happening because Merriam Webster are alleging massive copyright infringement.
Three main allegations are:
Unlicensed Training: The publishers claim OpenAI scraped and used nearly 100,000 online articles to train its large language models (LLMs) without obtaining permission or providing compensation.
Verbatim Outputs & RAG: They allege that ChatGPT violates copyright law by generating outputs that contain "full or partial verbatim reproductions" of their content, particularly through its retrieval augmented generation (RAG) workflow.
Trademark & Brand Harm: The lawsuit invokes the Lanham Act, alleging that OpenAI’s models generate "made-up hallucinations" and falsely attribute them to the publishers, which jeopardizes their reputation for high-quality, trustworthy information.
Developing Story
Remember Moltbook, AI-Agent-Only social network? Meta now owns it!
Well, that was quick. I wrote about the super fun stuff going on at Moltbook in last week’s newsletter. Turns out, Meta has already acquired it. Moltbook is joining Meta Superintelligence Labs. Deal terms were not disclosed.
best of the internet this week
Here is your Pinterest Spring Trend Report. TL;DR: micro-makeovers are in.
Very early days and this could be scrapped, but Amazon is planning to make smartphones.
India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change are planning to use AI to stop trains hitting elephants.
YouTube let’s you create AI videos using a still frame from someone else’s shorts.
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