🔎 AI Overviews stealing clicks

Hey folks,

Ever catch yourself typing “please” or “thanks” to ChatGPT… then wonder if the bot even cares? According to Sam Altman, it really doesn’t matter and all that extra politeness is burning serious tokens + electricity. He told an audience this week that the nice‑guy wording adds up to millions in wasted energy, since every extra token has to be parsed and processed in power‑hungry data centers. Altman’s fix is to keep it short, skip the manners, and spare both the grid and OpenAI’s GPU bill.

Let’s dive in..

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🔎 Google’s AI Overviews Are Stealing Your Clicks

🐝 The Buzz: Google says its new AI Overviews are helping people get answers faster. But according to new data from Ahrefs… they’re also absolutely destroying clicks to actual websites. A 34.5% drop in clicks-to-the-top-result kind of destroying. If you run a site, write content, or depend on organic traffic, this one’s gonna sting.

• The Test Was Massive: Ahrefs looked at 300,000 keywords—half with AI Overviews, half without. Pages that used to sit at #1 on Google saw way fewer clicks when AI Overviews showed up.

• People aren’t clicking through. Why would they? The AI box gives a direct answer and slaps a bunch of source links underneath, but it’s not really designed to drive traffic—it’s designed to keep users on Google.

• Even With Sources, It’s a Mess: Sure, your site might get listed as a reference, but it’s one of many, and most users never even scroll that far down. Visibility ≠ traffic.

• Creators, This Isn’t Great News: If your content fuels these AI answers, you're basically helping Google answer users’ questions while getting fewer visitors in return.

💡 Takeaway: Google’s AI Overviews might be a win for user convenience, but they’re a pretty brutal hit to content creators relying on clicks. If this is the new normal, it’s probably time to rethink SEO strategies—and maybe start looking at how your content shows up in the AI box, not just below it.

🖼️ Seedream 3.0 Claims to Outperform GPT-4o at Image Gen.

🐝 The Buzz: ByteDance just dropped Seedream 3.0, its latest AI image generator—and they’re not being shy about it. According to the company it goes toe-to-toe with heavyweights like GPT-4o, Midjourney v6.1, and Imagen 3. Oh, and it’s bilingual too—handling English and Chinese like a pro.

• Bigger, Smarter Training: Trained on double the data, with smarter tricks like resolution-aware sampling and masked preprocessing for flawed images.

• Speedy and Sharp: Generates crisp 1K images in about 3 seconds and supports native 2K resolution. That’s fast and fancy.

• Text Rendering That Actually Works: Hits a 94% success rate with both English and Chinese text, even when it’s tiny or packed into a dense layout.

• Photorealistic Portraits That Don’t Look Like Plastic: Realistic skin, natural wrinkles, detailed hair—none of that overly smoothed-out, AI-filtered look.

💡 Takeaway: Seedream 3.0 is coming in hot, and ByteDance clearly wants a seat at the top table of AI image gen. With sharp visuals, lightning-fast generation, and text rendering that actually sticks the landing, it’s one to keep an eye on—especially if you want Midjourney vibes but with a bit more control.

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💻️ How to see what ChatGPT thinks of you!

The next viral ChatGPT trend is asking GPT to create an image of you based on all your conversation history. It’s giving some hilarious results on socials, so i gave it a go. Given I purely use GPT for dev and technology use cases, it pretty much nailed my photo, so mine is a boring example! Give it a go anyway..

• Go to ChatGPT

• Prompt the following

Generate an image of what you think I look like based on our entire chat history without providing any reference photo.

🐝 AI buzz bits

🤖 In a historic event at Beijing's E-Town, humanoid robots, including the winning Tiangong Ultra, struggled to complete a half-marathon, showcasing their limitations with most robots failing to finish as quickly as human runners.

🤖 Thailand has launched "AI Police Cyborg 1.0," a Robocop-style robot equipped with advanced surveillance capabilities to enhance public safety during the Songkran festival, featuring facial recognition, suspect tracking, and behavior monitoring.

🚀 Chinese researchers have developed "Poxiao," a groundbreaking rice-sized flash memory device capable of rewriting data 100,000 times faster than current technology, potentially changing data storage and enhancing AI computing power.

🖥️ Google has unveiled the Gemma 3 AI models optimized with Quantization-Aware Training, allowing high-performance AI operations on consumer-grade GPUs.

🖼️ Generative Art

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