Jason Packer
@jason.quantable.com
expect analytics, math, privacy, and ska memes.
As a follow-up to my reporting on prompts leaking into GSC, I present what I believe is incontrovertible evidence that ChatGPT scrapes Google SERPs.
www.quantable.com/ai/openai-sc...
www.quantable.com/ai/openai-sc...
Yes, OpenAI Scrapes Google Search - Quantable Analytics
My last story about ChatGPT scraping Google and leaking prompts received a lot of attention, and I was especially pleased to see that OpenAI said that they’ve fixed the issue. So what was “the issue”...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
As a follow-up to my reporting on prompts leaking into GSC, I present what I believe is incontrovertible evidence that ChatGPT scrapes Google SERPs.
www.quantable.com/ai/openai-sc...
www.quantable.com/ai/openai-sc...
I wrote about a ChatGPT prompt leak last week and now that story is the #1 most read on Ars Technica! Even beat out the crab island story which tbh sounds much more interesting.
www.quantable.com/ai/the-old-r...
www.quantable.com/ai/the-old-r...
November 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I wrote about a ChatGPT prompt leak last week and now that story is the #1 most read on Ars Technica! Even beat out the crab island story which tbh sounds much more interesting.
www.quantable.com/ai/the-old-r...
www.quantable.com/ai/the-old-r...
has anyone suggested the acronym FAT MANG for the "magnificent 7"?
facebook, apple, tesla, microsoft, amazon, nvidia, google
facebook, apple, tesla, microsoft, amazon, nvidia, google
July 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
has anyone suggested the acronym FAT MANG for the "magnificent 7"?
facebook, apple, tesla, microsoft, amazon, nvidia, google
facebook, apple, tesla, microsoft, amazon, nvidia, google
(wakes up) "Hmm... I wonder how MechaHitler did on Humanity's Last Exam".
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July 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
(wakes up) "Hmm... I wonder how MechaHitler did on Humanity's Last Exam".
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Can AI be both a grift and a revolution at the same time?
My latest article (and tbh probably the last thing I'll write about AI for a while, I feel burnt out on the topic).
www.quantable.com/ai/the-duali...
My latest article (and tbh probably the last thing I'll write about AI for a while, I feel burnt out on the topic).
www.quantable.com/ai/the-duali...
The Duality of ChatGPT - Quantable Analytics
by Jason Packer with help from Juliana Jackson “.. the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function...
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July 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Can AI be both a grift and a revolution at the same time?
My latest article (and tbh probably the last thing I'll write about AI for a while, I feel burnt out on the topic).
www.quantable.com/ai/the-duali...
My latest article (and tbh probably the last thing I'll write about AI for a while, I feel burnt out on the topic).
www.quantable.com/ai/the-duali...
Why do AI boosters dream of the $1B solo person company? The odds are not in your favor. A $1B company with 1,000 people means $1M per person. In the former .1% get crazy rich and 99.9% get nothing.
Yea the economy isn't a zero-sum game, but I'd take the latter every time.
Yea the economy isn't a zero-sum game, but I'd take the latter every time.
March 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Why do AI boosters dream of the $1B solo person company? The odds are not in your favor. A $1B company with 1,000 people means $1M per person. In the former .1% get crazy rich and 99.9% get nothing.
Yea the economy isn't a zero-sum game, but I'd take the latter every time.
Yea the economy isn't a zero-sum game, but I'd take the latter every time.
I wonder if part of why AI bros overestimate the capabilities of LLMs so much is that they (the bros) consider writing code to be one of the strongest indicators of intelligence, and that happens to be one of the things that LLMs are best at.
February 5, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I wonder if part of why AI bros overestimate the capabilities of LLMs so much is that they (the bros) consider writing code to be one of the strongest indicators of intelligence, and that happens to be one of the things that LLMs are best at.
Linus offering to build a guitar pedal for a kernel contributor makes me wish I'd contributed something last year.. or ever. Any linux kernel contributors who want to ask for a King of Tone from Linus on my behalf please go ahead.
www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/l...
www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/l...
Linus Torvalds offers to build free guitar effects pedal
‘I'm a software person with a soldering iron’, he warns alongside release of Linux 6.13-rc7
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January 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Linus offering to build a guitar pedal for a kernel contributor makes me wish I'd contributed something last year.. or ever. Any linux kernel contributors who want to ask for a King of Tone from Linus on my behalf please go ahead.
www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/l...
www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/l...
Unless someone moved Columbus a lot closer to the lake I feel like that number probably isn’t right
January 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Unless someone moved Columbus a lot closer to the lake I feel like that number probably isn’t right
I’ve figured it out.. The Big “1G” is in base 17, so they are actually only at 18 of the eventual 33 (decimal) schools.
January 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I’ve figured it out.. The Big “1G” is in base 17, so they are actually only at 18 of the eventual 33 (decimal) schools.
A newly built Klon Centaur on ebay, currently $7,048 and sure to go higher. I guess people still believe in magic diodes... I really doubt whoever buys this could tell the difference between this and a $50 klone. Positive I could not.
www.ebay.com/itm/38775728...
www.ebay.com/itm/38775728...
Klon Centaur, gold finish, NEWLY-BUILT AND PREVIOUSLY UNSOLD. | eBay
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January 3, 2025 at 3:45 AM
A newly built Klon Centaur on ebay, currently $7,048 and sure to go higher. I guess people still believe in magic diodes... I really doubt whoever buys this could tell the difference between this and a $50 klone. Positive I could not.
www.ebay.com/itm/38775728...
www.ebay.com/itm/38775728...
I'm sorry I didn't get your message, but I have a procmail rule that sends everything with the subject "quick question" to the trash.
December 4, 2024 at 4:42 PM
I'm sorry I didn't get your message, but I have a procmail rule that sends everything with the subject "quick question" to the trash.
Happy Unsubscribe From Marketing Newsletters day for those who celebrate.
November 29, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Happy Unsubscribe From Marketing Newsletters day for those who celebrate.
Orcas bringing back fashion trends from 1980s (wearing dead salmon as hats) is definitely the story of the week. www.livescience.com/animals/orca...
November 29, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Orcas bringing back fashion trends from 1980s (wearing dead salmon as hats) is definitely the story of the week. www.livescience.com/animals/orca...
Wow, labelers are are pretty powerful feature. Here's an index of them www.bluesky-labelers.io
The US political one seems to work decently well.
bsky.app/profile/uspo...
The US political one seems to work decently well.
bsky.app/profile/uspo...
Labels are a way to categorize content and users on BlueSky. They are part of the moderation tools but they can be do lots of interesting things like foster community.
www.bluesky-labelers.io
November 24, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Wow, labelers are are pretty powerful feature. Here's an index of them www.bluesky-labelers.io
The US political one seems to work decently well.
bsky.app/profile/uspo...
The US political one seems to work decently well.
bsky.app/profile/uspo...
New post! Why are there 40% less professional musicians in the US than in 2000 and how come vinyl now outsells CDs? I don't know either but I've got graphs.
www.quantable.com/analytics/po...
www.quantable.com/analytics/po...
Power Laws & Why Our New Album Won't Make Any Money
That’s the way you do it You play the guitar on the MTV That ain’t workin’, that’s the way you do it Money for nothing and your chicks for free So said Dire Straits in 1985. When I was a kid, I legiti...
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November 19, 2024 at 9:21 PM
New post! Why are there 40% less professional musicians in the US than in 2000 and how come vinyl now outsells CDs? I don't know either but I've got graphs.
www.quantable.com/analytics/po...
www.quantable.com/analytics/po...
"User Journey Volume 2: The Custom Dimension" is out now!
We're back with more excellent narrators, more puns, more thinly-veiled allegory.
open.spotify.com/album/73EH7W...
We're back with more excellent narrators, more puns, more thinly-veiled allegory.
open.spotify.com/album/73EH7W...
User Journey Volume 2: The Custom Dimension
Josh Silverbauer & Friends · Album · 2024 · 14 songs
open.spotify.com
November 18, 2024 at 3:44 PM
"User Journey Volume 2: The Custom Dimension" is out now!
We're back with more excellent narrators, more puns, more thinly-veiled allegory.
open.spotify.com/album/73EH7W...
We're back with more excellent narrators, more puns, more thinly-veiled allegory.
open.spotify.com/album/73EH7W...
This article is dumb and the 300+ comments on HN only reinforce my belief legiscope.com/blog/hidden-...
Europeans Spend 575 Million Hours Clicking Cookie Banners Every Year
Description de l'article en français.
legiscope.com
November 16, 2024 at 12:40 AM
This article is dumb and the 300+ comments on HN only reinforce my belief legiscope.com/blog/hidden-...
My latest article, talking 3P cookies and some Sandbox stuff as I try to understand it all.
www.quantable.com/analytics/th...
www.quantable.com/analytics/th...
How Many Sites Are Still Running Third Party Cookies?
The cookies are dying! Run for the hills! Save yourselves! Third party cookies (3PCs) are one of the most covered topics in digital marketing right now, yet somehow still remain one of the most confus...
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February 19, 2024 at 5:54 PM
My latest article, talking 3P cookies and some Sandbox stuff as I try to understand it all.
www.quantable.com/analytics/th...
www.quantable.com/analytics/th...
My new post called "Outsider Thinking and the Age of AI" is a fun collab with @julianajaxx.bsky.social about leaning into being a weirdo... but like, with a scientific basic and some charts and stuff. www.quantable.com/working/outs...
December 4, 2023 at 10:24 PM
My new post called "Outsider Thinking and the Age of AI" is a fun collab with @julianajaxx.bsky.social about leaning into being a weirdo... but like, with a scientific basic and some charts and stuff. www.quantable.com/working/outs...
I do, however, have an opinion on Larry Summers. 🤬
November 30, 2023 at 3:29 AM
I do, however, have an opinion on Larry Summers. 🤬
And I sometimes have wondered why people think I don't like Google....
November 14, 2023 at 3:02 PM
And I sometimes have wondered why people think I don't like Google....
I put it in a custom ChatGPT instruction to have it tell me when it's BS-ing me and it kind of seems to work? This is one of those cases where I don't know if I'm being smart or stupid.
November 8, 2023 at 4:30 PM
I put it in a custom ChatGPT instruction to have it tell me when it's BS-ing me and it kind of seems to work? This is one of those cases where I don't know if I'm being smart or stupid.
I have something worth posting! The album Josh Silverbauer and I released this week.
Universalsunset.com if you haven't seen it yet.
Josh did the "important" stuff like writing the music. I added the critical discriminating features like the Wikipedia joke on the homepage and the guitar solos.
Universalsunset.com if you haven't seen it yet.
Josh did the "important" stuff like writing the music. I added the critical discriminating features like the Wikipedia joke on the homepage and the guitar solos.
User Journey Vol. 1: Universal Sunset
A digital analytics rock opera? What the heck...that's right! Join Cookie, a very awesome cosmic being, as he quests to find a new universe after his is sunset forever...
Universalsunset.com
November 1, 2023 at 1:53 PM
I have something worth posting! The album Josh Silverbauer and I released this week.
Universalsunset.com if you haven't seen it yet.
Josh did the "important" stuff like writing the music. I added the critical discriminating features like the Wikipedia joke on the homepage and the guitar solos.
Universalsunset.com if you haven't seen it yet.
Josh did the "important" stuff like writing the music. I added the critical discriminating features like the Wikipedia joke on the homepage and the guitar solos.