Armando Alves
@armandoalves.com
💻 Digital Marketing 📖 Writing a book on Applied #BehavioralScience 📈 Growing brands online since 2000 🧐 #Marketing | Web | #Analytics | Liberalism 🕺Hobbies: dances, roller skating, fujix, surf 🗣 Posts in Portuguese and English
IAB Tech Lab has released the CoMP 1.0 specification to standardize how #AI systems pay for #content. It allows #publishers to signal terms and AI firms to verify them before access, beyond robots.txt iabtechlab.com/standards/co...
CoMP (Content Monetization Protocols) Initiative Specification
Overview of the proposed LLM Content Monetization Protocols Initiative proposed to support publishers create a new revenue model for AI bots
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"YouTube ranks second among the most cited domains in AI Mode" - video has become essential in content marketing strategy https://moz.com/blog/ai-mode-citations
Should the state nudge us toward better choices, or does that undermine the very essence of being a free agent? @casssunstein.bsky.social explores whether the Harm Principle still holds in a world of cognitive biases: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The rise of System 3: artificial cognition that operates outside our brains but dictates what happens inside them. #AI #behavioralscience papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
"The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it" — Brandolini's law #TIL
As #LLM models grow more advanced, their responses become increasingly human-like and irrational.
Behavioral Economics of AI: LLM Biases and Corrections: Lawrence J. Jin
After spending the last weeks reading Khaneman and Tversky's work, it's impressive the respect they've earned even by their most fierce adversaries. www.ejpe.org/journal/arti...
After checking a paper (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) on how #LLMs are approaching a level of creativity akin to human capabilities i stumbled upon this Severus Snape AI wonder: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlsE...
Severus Snape - ALWAYS (Live at Hogwarts) | Music Video
YouTube video by WickedAI
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“When it comes to maintaining a sense of well-being, each of us is the ultimate spin doctor” — Timothy D. Wilson
"Why can't we just use the internet to vote ?!" 📱😞 Computer Scientists: "It’s literally just a 'Submit My Vote to Hackers' button with extra steps. Please use a pen." ✍️🗳️ blog.citp.princeton.edu/2026/01/16/i...
Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections - CITP Blog
All internet voting systems are insecure. The insecurity is worse than a well-run conventional paper ballot system, because a very small number of people may have the power to change any (or all) vote...
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“economies grow because desires and capabilities change as the result of innovations, infrastructure, and institutions that allow the benefits to spread. New forms of production require new systems of distribution, experience, and exchange“ www.oreilly.com/radar/ai-and...
AI and the Next Economy
The narrative from the AI labs is dazzling: build AGI, unlock astonishing productivity, and watch GDP surge. It’s a compelling story, especially if you’re the
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Words of caution: Backup. And avoid walled gardens. hey.paris/posts/appleid/
20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple
Summary: A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectively bricking my devices and my iCloud Account, Apple De...
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wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
#LLMs are shifting from simple Q&A to complex, multi-step agents using external tools, with #AI increasingly embedded in production workflows. openrouter.ai/state-of-ai This OpenRouter and a16z study shows how LLMs are being used in practice, leveraging over 100 trillion tokens.
"greater market orientation is associated with lower homicide rates (...) This contradicts a long and voluminous theoretical literature extolling the unhappy outcome for violence rates of a stronger market orientation." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Market orientation and national homicide rates
We studied the influence of market orientation on national homicide rates. Multiple theoretical traditions equate the development and dominance of markets with higher crime rates. Some traditional so....
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Impressed with the new Dynamic View feature on Gemini. The impact on education will be huge.
ECJ Eases rules for sharing data used in AI and analytics, with new #GDPR standard: Pseudonymised data is only personal data if the recipient can reasonably reidentify. https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/in-a-landmark-decision-eu-court-7439040/
Helpful way of improving LLM output: Verbalized Sampling arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01171 "generate a set of N possible responses, each within a separate <response> tag. Responses should each include a <text> and a numeric <probability>."
My growing take on populism is that it's a massive tantrum by narcissistic Big Children! 👶 #Populism #BigChildren #PoliticalTantrum
Já vou para aí no décimo scroll aqui no Bluesky, e ainda não vi um skeet a saudar a robusta vitória de Carlos Moedas. Talvez seja por causa das bolhas como a que constroem aqui que depois são surpreendidos nas urnas.
Never thought of using AI for mental and emotional well being, but here I am: experimenting with Gemini and TTS to create a guided meditation. youtu.be/io1loyCOX3A
10 Minute Guided Meditation - Ocean Anchor Mindfulness
YouTube video by Armando Alves
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Something to keep in mind when Google is trying to force the use of Play Store as the single source of app distribution on Android.
so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...
Note to self: avoid travelling to the U.S.
About to cancel my MeasureCamp Chicago trip. Provided my stay details on ESTA and to the lodge, yet still getting threats — ‘you won’t get in.’ Now the airline is blasting ‘DO IT NOW or you WON’T,’ which feels like a pretty off way to talk to customers. Exhausted by this one-way Simon Says game.