July, 2023 -

The AI Dilemma: What You Need to Know About Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin’s Latest Work

The AI Dilemma: What You Need to Know About Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin’s Latest Work

We recently released a video commentary on the presentation “The AI Dilemma,” being given by Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin on some of the possible negative impacts of the rapid deployment of generative AI tools. They are two of the co-founders of the Center for Humane Technology, a tech watchdog group that raised alarms about social media and its impact on society. They are also the hosts of the podcast […]

Feature Update: Standard vs Contextual Search Results

Feature Update: Standard vs Contextual Search Results

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 […]

LIVE WEBINAR: Protecting Your Content from AI on September 21st

LIVE WEBINAR: Protecting Your Content from AI on September 21st

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 […]

Unraveling the AI Dilemma | OHT Commentary

Unraveling the AI Dilemma | OHT Commentary

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.

Reverse Publishing AI Generated Content | OHT Webinar Replay

Reverse Publishing AI Generated Content | OHT Webinar Replay

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.

Overview of data used to train language models

Overview of data used to train language models

What types of datasets are used to train LLMs? This post provides a brief summary of several corpora used for training Large Language Models (LLMs), categorized into six groups: Books, CommonCrawl, Reddit links, Wikipedia, Code, and others. The original paper, “A Survey of Large Language Models,” can be found here. Books: This category includes BookCorpus, consisting of over 11,000 books of various topics and genres, and Project Gutenberg, which contains […]

Dead Internet Theory by ColdFusion | OHT Commentary

Dead Internet Theory by ColdFusion | OHT Commentary

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.

LIVE Webinar: Reverse Publishing AI Generated Content on July 20th

LIVE Webinar: Reverse Publishing AI Generated Content on July 20th

Our-Hometown, Inc. will be hosting a LIVE WEBINAR on Reverse Publishing AI Generated Content later this month on July 20th at 3PM Eastern.  We’ve recently hosted live webinars on AI Generated Content and AI Generated Imagery, demonstrating how publishers can leverage the power of popular AI models like ChatGPT and DALL-E to produce written articles and related stock imagery for their websites. Now, we’re ready to tie it all together and demonstrate how […]

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