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The recent releases of Agent-GPT, AutoGPT, and BabyGPT have taken ChatGPT to a new level. Rather than simply responding to user prompts, these tools identify a series of tasks that must be completed to achieve a goal and then completes them autonomously. It’s still early days, but the potential is huge. So is the growing risk of bad actors using these tools for nefarious purposes. We discuss these recent developments in this short mid-week episode.
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If your generative AI prompts aren’t producing exactly what you want, there’s help — for a fee. You can buy pre-written prompts from prompt marketplaces like PromptBase and Prompt Attack or hire a prompt engineer through services like Fiverr. We dig into this newly-emergent cottage industry in this short midweek episode.
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Imagine posting to your favorite social network, the one you want your brand to be associated with, and having it appear for all of your followers in the social networks of their choice. It could be possible if the ActivityPub standard continues to spread the way it has been lately. And that could be an important evolution given the meltdown that Twitter is undergoing. Those are just two of the stories in the April long-form edition of the “For Immediate Release” podcast. Also in this episode…

• The “have a go” era of podcasting could be coming to an end, depending on how you interpret the data
• LinkedIn is going through some changes that not everyone likes
• A coalition of 500-plus ad agencies is taking a stand against fossil fuels
• A song reportedly produced using AI imitated the voices of some A-list artists, and the music industry isn’t happy
• Dan York reports on the demise of Spotify Live, some Twitter news, Wikipedia’s one-minute video, and more

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Traditional wallets are stuffed full of cash, credit cards, debit cards, and identification. Crypto wallets have only held public and private keys needed to trade cryptocurrencies. Users are increasingly filling their crypto wallets with NFTs and other digital assets. It won’t be long before digital wallets hold crypto, NFTs, digital assets, and your credit cards and identity verification. The only physical wallets you’ll see will be in museums. Why communicators and their clients/employers should care is the subject of this short midweek episode.
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