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How to fix public data
Inspired by Netflix's Freefall — the full manual on how I built aircraftdefects.com with GLM-5.3 Flash
Aug 28
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Henk van Ess
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How to fight AI hallucinations: start with your own question
Watch now | Eight ways we slip up, and they are all the same slip: part of your answer is already in your question, you do not notice, and the machine…
Aug 24
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Henk van Ess
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22:27
Stop blaming AI chatbots. You are part of the problem
I analyzed 522,607 questions people asked AI.
Aug 19
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Henk van Ess
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Nobody Said Stop: Deep Inside the Rabbit Hole
How ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot keep the conversation going
Aug 3
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Henk van Ess
21
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Nano Banana 2 removed from Google Earth
Google has rolled back the image generation feature it launched in Google Earth on 30 July.
Jul 31
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Henk van Ess
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How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
The question is: what on earth is Google doing?
Jul 30
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Henk van Ess
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Another 96,477 "private" chats went public
It is not just ChatGPT, but also Claude, Gemini, Grok, Copilot and DeepSeek
Jul 9
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Henk van Ess
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So you still think you can Google?
You can refuse to be spoon-fed by Googles new AI search. Here's the toolkit.
May 28
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Henk van Ess
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Detectives, Detectors and Deceptions
Watch the full free GIJN seminar on what AI detectors get right, get wrong, and miss entirely
Mar 27
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Henk van Ess
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How I Taught AI to Catch Fakes I Can't See
From side project to newsroom tool in twelve months
Mar 12
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Henk van Ess
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Visual investigations: here's how to do it.
"60 to 70% of visual forensics is human, not tech,” says Henk van Ess
Mar 7
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Alex Mahadevan
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A lawyer, a road inspector and a cardiologist walk into a coding competition. So did I. This is no longer a joke.
I apologized for not being a coder. Some answered: me neither.
Feb 20
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Henk van Ess
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The State of Online Search: How to Find What You're Looking For in the Age of AI
Operators still work, AI can help, and the “hard way” is now the only way.
Feb 17
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Craig Silverman
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Made by Google. Missed by Google — except for one tool, buried in the garden shed.
If Google can make the fake, it should flag the fake in all its products
Feb 8
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Henk van Ess
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Henk van Ess is an international expert in online research methods utilizing the web and AI. This newsletter has members from organizations such as BBC, Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft, NBC, Oracle, New York Times and Washington Post. Join now.
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