Search for AI passive income and the first page is built almost entirely by people selling it. Affiliate reviews, testimonials, screenshots of dashboards, a webinar link. What is missing is the only source that has actually opened these businesses and looked inside. In September 2024 the U.S. Federal Trade Commission did exactly that, in a…
Anyone who has pasted their own writing into an AI detector and watched it come back flagged has asked the same question about AI detector accuracy, usually in a slightly panicked way: how can this be wrong about something I know I wrote? There is a published answer, it is specific, and it is worse…
Almost every page explaining YouTube monetization requirements gives you the same two numbers and stops: a thousand subscribers, four thousand watch hours. Those numbers are correct. They are also roughly a third of what the documentation actually says, and the missing two thirds are where people lose months. There is a lower tier that unlocks…
Almost every figure you have read about what companies use AI for came from a survey run by a company selling AI. A few hundred executives, a vendor’s mailing list, and a result that happens to support buying more of something. There is a better source, and it is free. The U.S. Census Bureau runs…
Search how social media algorithms work and you get a wall of confident instruction. Post at this hour. Use this many hashtags. The algorithm favours this format this month. Almost none of it links to anything the platforms published. They did publish it. Instagram lists its Feed signals in order of importance. TikTok states plainly…
Search for whether you can monetize AI content and you will find dozens of articles confidently explaining the rules. Almost none of them link to a platform’s own documentation, which is a problem, because the platforms have published it and it says something more specific than the summaries suggest. So this article went to the…
Ask who owns AI-generated content and the tool you used will tell you, cheerfully, that you do. OpenAI’s terms say you own the output. Midjourney’s say you own the assets. Case closed, apparently. Then read the rest of the sentence. OpenAI assigns you “all our right, title, and interest, if any.” Midjourney grants ownership “to…
There are two widespread beliefs about the Google AI content policy, and both are wrong in ways that cost people real work. The first is that Google penalises anything written with AI assistance. It doesn’t, and its published documentation never says it does. The second is the opposite — that because there’s no ban, the…
Almost every article about artificial intelligence and work is a prediction. This one is about measurements — because what AI can’t do turns out to be far more interesting, and far more useful, than another forecast about what it might do someday. Since late 2022, the public conversation has run on projections. Some studies suggested…
