The following guest column was contributed by our friend and partner Kevin Slimp of the Kevin Slimp Webinar Series. My friend, Kari, wrote to me from her newspaper in Indiana this morning. Her message reminded me of the questions I received daily when doing I.T. work for newspaper groups a decade or two ago. Her email went something like this: “The PDF file of this page looks perfect, but the printed version is missing letters in the subhead. We decided it’s just one of those questions to which we’ll never know the answer.” Fortunately, my memory still works well enough...

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Our engineers have recently released an update that gives publishers more control over how your website's Search Results are displayed, allowing you to toggle between "Standard" or "Contextual" search results. So what are Standard and Contextual search results? By default, our websites utilize Contextual Search Results. This means that when a visitor enters a term in the search box, the search results are displayed in a way that highlights the search term in the context that it is used in the article. For example, if you search for the term "large brown dog", your search results will display a list...

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https://youtu.be/_crSxmsAxzU Our-Hometown will be hosting a LIVE WEBINAR on Protecting Your Content from AI next month on September 21st at 2PM Eastern. With so much focus lately on new AI technologies and the limitless potential they represent for news publishers, one negative that has often gone overlooked is the risk of AI scraping your content without your permission. One way that AI language models train themselves to remain current is to scrape news content from across the internet, making that information available in its database to share with users or applications who may benefit from it. For news publishers who...

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https://youtu.be/8bi9tDYCX5M In the ever-evolving digital landscape, the role of artificial intelligence (AI) has become a topic of intense discussion and scrutiny. This video commentary delves into this complex issue, offering a unique perspective on the potential dangers of AI, particularly in relation to the effects of social media. The commentary features Matt and Christopher, who dissect the AI Dilemma, a video originally by Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin. The duo watches the video, providing their insights and interpretations, and invites viewers to join them in this exploration of AI's potential pitfalls. The video commentary is not just a cautionary tale...

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https://youtu.be/qTdpZyoKd_c In this live webinar replay Matt and Christopher discuss Reverse Publishing and its benefits for publishers as well as the efficiency gains of using AI generated content and images. The demonstration includes the AI Engine plugin for WordPress and how to create an article from a prompt, how to steer the AI and finally generating a featured image for the article. The demo continues with exporting the article from WordPress to InDesign XML and follows with importing and laying out the generated and exported content into an InDesign template. Chapters 00:00 - Intro02:55 - What is Reverse Publishing? 12:09...

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https://youtu.be/XZwc7l2zzW0 In our latest podcast, the Our-Hometown team shares their insights on an episode by ColdFusion on the Dead Internet Theory, a concept suggesting most internet activity is the work of bots. They believe this issue, driven by profit and occasional geopolitical interference, is a significant challenge we need to address. The video discusses a study showing only 57.7% of internet users are human, with harmful bots making up 27.7%. It's alarming to see the proportion of humans on the internet at its lowest in eight years, while bad bots are increasing at a rate of 5% per year. The...

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https://youtu.be/BAzDsdqvzFs In this live webinar replay Matt and Christopher discuss AI image creation tools, Dall-E, Adobe Firefly, and Stable Diffusion. The lay out how news publisher might uses these tools and Christopher demonstrates how the tools work and specifically how Adobe is integrating AI tools into the latest version of Photoshop. They also cover Content Credentials for protecting image content and how it is implemented in Photoshop. A short demo of Diffusion Bee, an open source app that runs Stable Diffusion locally on your computer and some of the advantages of doing so. Finally they wrap up with a preview...

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https://youtu.be/Dh6OW9F7U_8 In this video, the OHT team provides commentary on an interview between Lex Fridman and Sam Altman, the founder of OpenAI. They discuss various topics related to ChatGPT and the personalization of models. They explore the idea of feedback mechanisms and the potential for users to report, upvote, or downvote responses. They also touch on the democratization of the alignment process and the importance of keeping alignment ahead of the capabilities of models. The conversation delves into topics like human training, reinforcement learning, and the challenges of aligning models with different values across countries. They also discuss the partnership...

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https://youtu.be/DRN1kVEy1ok In this commentary video, the Our-Hometown team engage in casual forum-style discussions based on an episode of the Lex Fridman podcast featuring Mark Zuckerberg. They highlight how Zuckerberg's discussion about AI aligns with their vision of developing chat bots. The team mentions the availability of open-source AI models, such as GPT, and the potential use of Facebook's AI in their own chat bot development. They delve into the importance of open sourcing AI and the benefits it offers to researchers and developers. The conversation also touches on the significance of alignment in AI models and the potential risks associated...

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No two newspapers are alike. At least, they shouldn't be. The following is the latest column contributed by our friend and partner, Kevin Slimp! Don't miss Kevin's upcoming webinar, "Creating More Effective Advertising For Increased Revenue" on June 22nd. As always, attendance is free for Our-Hometown customers! If you regularly read my columns, you know that I write about focus groups quite often. Don't worry. I'm not writing bout focus groups today. However, I want to discuss another kind of group that I find beneficial to many newspapers I visit. Now and then, I am invited to work on-site with...

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-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive

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