🤖💼 Stat of the Day: That LinkedIn influencer in your feed writing thought pieces about how attending their niece’s baptism taught them to increase B2B sales may actually be a bot. More than 54% of longer LinkedIn posts recently published in English are most likely AI-generated, according to an analysis by AI detection startup Originality AI. The analysis encompassed ~8,800 public LinkedIn posts 100+ words long and published between January 2018–October 2024; the amount of AI content spiked 189% at the beginning of 2023 – coinciding with the release of ChatGPT.

🤔 Did You Know? California was widely depicted as an island in maps from the early 1600s to the mid-1700s, with the misconception stemming from a popular Spanish novel at the time that featured a mythical island named California.

📰 Worth a Read: The Technology for Autonomous Weapons Exists. What Now? → (Undark Magazine)