Ian Birkby
birkers.bsky.social
Ian Birkby
@birkers.bsky.social
CEO AZoNetwork.com. Really interested in #MarketingScience, Inbound Marketing, Tech and SaaS. Plus LUFC and Cas Tigers. Brit living in Sydney.
newsroom-deezer.com/2025/04/deez...

Well there’s a sign of the times. Good on Deezer for having tools to flag the AI content.
Deezer reveals 18% of all new music uploaded to streaming is fully AI-generated - Deezer Newsroom
Paris, April 16, 2025 – Deezer, the global music streaming platform, is receiving over 20,000 fully AI-generated tracks on a daily basis. It equals over 18% of all uploaded content, an increase from t...
newsroom-deezer.com
April 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Quite a significant achievement, surprised this hasn’t received more press coverage. “Turing test passed”. #AI #LLMs

arxiv.org/pdf/2503.23674
arxiv.org
April 16, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Good to see the publisher action here….. as they state in their commentary, ‘the free man cannot be long an ignorant man.’” President William McKinley
April 6, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Another day and another low cost, open source #LLM ..... but with less security and privacy concerns? #AI techcrunch.com/2025/01/30/a...
Ai2 says its new AI model beats one of DeepSeek's best | TechCrunch
Move over, DeepSeek. Seattle-based nonprofit AI lab Ai2 has released a benchmark-topping model called Tulu3-405B.
techcrunch.com
January 31, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Reposted by Ian Birkby
This week's cover and editorial @thelancet.bsky.social on mis- and disinformation's impact on public health
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
January 16, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I guess if you're just focused on serving ads you're probably not that bothered if the content is "true" or not? What's the EU going to do to enforce the law? www.axios.com/2025/01/16/g...
Google won't add fact-checks despite new EU law
The company informed EU officials in a new letter.
www.axios.com
January 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Reposted by Ian Birkby

It’s perfect. Here Sheryl was, “leaning in,” taking charge, being the front woman and explainer and COO for the terminally vacant, inarticulate, and people-repelling Zuck FOR YEARS, and rather than gratitude, he does this.

How low can you get? But a great cautionary career tale for powerful women.
It really is such masculine energy to blame things on a woman who no longer works at the company www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...
January 16, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Interesting data from Statcounter. Google dropping below 90% search volume ....... long way to go but it's a start. Big fan of duckduckgo.com
January 16, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Fascinating work by the AZoNetwork marketing team who've just completed the 6th Edition of "The State of Scientific Marketing" with a review of the key changes here www.azonetwork.com/marketing-sc... #MarketingScience

#MarketingScience #DigitalMarketing
January 16, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Not the best combination of Emotional Intelligence and HR policies I've ever seen .... techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/t...
TikTok tells LA staff impacted by wildfires to use personal/sick hours if they can't work from home | TechCrunch
Wildfires are currently devastating the greater Los Angeles area, burning over 45 square miles, torching over 1,300 structures, and putting nearly 180,000
techcrunch.com
January 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Good to see #Bluesky doing so well. Time to get on board.
January 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM