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		<title>The Truth About AI Bias: Why It Can Never Be Completely Removed</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as removing bias from generative AI completely. None. Zero. Anyone making that claim is lying, period, end of story. Here&#8217;s why. A lot of people &#8211; with good intentions, and with good effect &#8211; can REDUCE bias by giving today&#8217;s language models clear guidelines about what constitutes inclusive language versus&#8230;<img src="//www.christopherspenn.com/wp-content/plugins/matomo/app/matomo.php?idsite=1&amp;rec=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.christopherspenn.com%2F2026%2F07%2Fthe-truth-about-ai-bias-why-it-can-never-be-completely-removed%2F%3Fpk_campaign%3Dfeed%26pk_kwd%3Dthe-truth-about-ai-bias-why-it-can-never-be-completely-removed&amp;action_name=The%20Truth%20About%20AI%20Bias%3A%20Why%20It%20Can%20Never%20Be%20Completely%20Removed&amp;urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.christopherspenn.com%2Ffeed%2F" style="border:0;width:0;height:0" width="0" height="0" alt="" />]]></description>
		
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		<title>The AI Hypocrisy: Why Secretive Use of Generative AI is Fueling Creator Backlash</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Many more people are using AI than you thought. This is the conclusion from the fan fiction kerfuffle of yesterday, when a Claude formatting tag was copied by authors unwittingly into their fan fiction published on Archive of Our Own (AO3). Folks are hastily editing their stories, and in some cases, removing them from Archive.org&#8230;<img src="//www.christopherspenn.com/wp-content/plugins/matomo/app/matomo.php?idsite=1&amp;rec=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.christopherspenn.com%2F2026%2F07%2Fthe-ai-hypocrisy-why-secretive-use-of-generative-ai-is-fueling-creator-backlash%2F%3Fpk_campaign%3Dfeed%26pk_kwd%3Dthe-ai-hypocrisy-why-secretive-use-of-generative-ai-is-fueling-creator-backlash&amp;action_name=The%20AI%20Hypocrisy%3A%20Why%20Secretive%20Use%20of%20Generative%20AI%20is%20Fueling%20Creator%20Backlash&amp;urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.christopherspenn.com%2Ffeed%2F" style="border:0;width:0;height:0" width="0" height="0" alt="" />]]></description>
		
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		<title>Almost Timely News: &#128478;️ How to Demonstrate Your AI Chops in Job Hunting (2026-07-26)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[_Almost Timely News: 🗞️ How to Demonstrate Your AI Chops in Job Hunting (2026-07-26) :: View in Browser_ The Big Plug 👉 New book! 21 Use Cases of Generative AI For Marketers Content Authenticity Statement 90% of this week's newsletter was made by me, the human. You'll see multiple outputs from Claude Opus 5 including&hellip;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why AI Editing Is Making Your Writing Boring and How to Fix It</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A reminder that editing with AI makes works read more like AI. When GenAI works on text, it works in probabilities. That&#8217;s literally how it works at its heart, figuring out the most probable next item in a sequence based on the data in the sequence. It&#8217;s why it&#8217;s so good at things like predicting&#8230;<img src="//www.christopherspenn.com/wp-content/plugins/matomo/app/matomo.php?idsite=1&amp;rec=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.christopherspenn.com%2F2026%2F07%2Fwhy-ai-editing-is-making-your-writing-boring-and-how-to-fix-it%2F%3Fpk_campaign%3Dfeed%26pk_kwd%3Dwhy-ai-editing-is-making-your-writing-boring-and-how-to-fix-it&amp;action_name=Why%20AI%20Editing%20Is%20Making%20Your%20Writing%20Boring%20and%20How%20to%20Fix%20It&amp;urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.christopherspenn.com%2Ffeed%2F" style="border:0;width:0;height:0" width="0" height="0" alt="" />]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Machines Are Taking Over: Why Your Digital Marketing Strategy Must Pivot to AI Bot Traffic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today on the Trust Insights livestream, I showed how I wired AI bot traffic data into a separate Google Analytics 4 account. What this showed, which was fairly stunning, was a tale of 2 websites. On the left, a regular GA4 account which blocks bots so that you get a sense of the humans on&#8230;<img src="//www.christopherspenn.com/wp-content/plugins/matomo/app/matomo.php?idsite=1&amp;rec=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.christopherspenn.com%2F2026%2F07%2Fthe-machines-are-taking-over-why-your-digital-marketing-strategy-must-pivot-to-ai-bot-traffic%2F%3Fpk_campaign%3Dfeed%26pk_kwd%3Dthe-machines-are-taking-over-why-your-digital-marketing-strategy-must-pivot-to-ai-bot-traffic&amp;action_name=The%20Machines%20Are%20Taking%20Over%3A%20Why%20Your%20Digital%20Marketing%20Strategy%20Must%20Pivot%20to%20AI%20Bot%20Traffic&amp;urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.christopherspenn.com%2Ffeed%2F" style="border:0;width:0;height:0" width="0" height="0" alt="" />]]></description>
		
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		<title>How to Use Cloudflare’s New AI Bot Controls to Protect Your Content and Brand</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher S Penn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Choose which bots to block carefully. Cloudflare, a couple days ago, made significant changes to how they identify AI bots. You can now block specific classes and types of AI bots, and they&#8217;re in three categories: AI Crawler: this vacuums up your content to feed model training data AI Search: this bot searches for stuff&#8230;<img src="//www.christopherspenn.com/wp-content/plugins/matomo/app/matomo.php?idsite=1&amp;rec=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.christopherspenn.com%2F2026%2F07%2Fhow-to-use-cloudflares-new-ai-bot-controls-to-protect-your-content-and-brand%2F%3Fpk_campaign%3Dfeed%26pk_kwd%3Dhow-to-use-cloudflares-new-ai-bot-controls-to-protect-your-content-and-brand&amp;action_name=How%20to%20Use%20Cloudflare%E2%80%99s%20New%20AI%20Bot%20Controls%20to%20Protect%20Your%20Content%20and%20Brand&amp;urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.christopherspenn.com%2Ffeed%2F" style="border:0;width:0;height:0" width="0" height="0" alt="" />]]></description>
		
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		<title>Stop Flying Blind: Why You Must Test Token Usage Before Scaling Enterprise AI</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the best things you can do in enterprise AI is set up testbeds to count tokens. Here&#8217;s why. Claude&#8217;s enterprise pricing is this: Opus 4.8: $5/million tokens in, $25/million tokens out Sonnet 4.6: $3/million tokens in, $15/million tokens out Microsoft&#8217;s pricing is based on Copilot Credits; 1 credit is one penny, and they&#8230;<img src="//www.christopherspenn.com/wp-content/plugins/matomo/app/matomo.php?idsite=1&amp;rec=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.christopherspenn.com%2F2026%2F07%2Fstop-flying-blind-why-you-must-test-token-usage-before-scaling-enterprise-ai%2F%3Fpk_campaign%3Dfeed%26pk_kwd%3Dstop-flying-blind-why-you-must-test-token-usage-before-scaling-enterprise-ai&amp;action_name=Stop%20Flying%20Blind%3A%20Why%20You%20Must%20Test%20Token%20Usage%20Before%20Scaling%20Enterprise%20AI&amp;urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.christopherspenn.com%2Ffeed%2F" style="border:0;width:0;height:0" width="0" height="0" alt="" />]]></description>
		
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		<title>Caught Red-Handed: How Hidden HTML Tags Are Exposing Secret AI Use in Fan Fiction</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher S Penn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Disclose your use of AI. Ruby King and I were chatting about surreptitious use of AI earlier today and one of the hottest topics right now is use of AI in fan fiction. For those who don&#8217;t know, fan fiction is where authors write works within an existing IP franchise, often without the franchise owner&#8217;s&#8230;<img src="//www.christopherspenn.com/wp-content/plugins/matomo/app/matomo.php?idsite=1&amp;rec=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.christopherspenn.com%2F2026%2F07%2Fcaught-red-handed-how-hidden-html-tags-are-exposing-secret-ai-use-in-fan-fiction%2F%3Fpk_campaign%3Dfeed%26pk_kwd%3Dcaught-red-handed-how-hidden-html-tags-are-exposing-secret-ai-use-in-fan-fiction&amp;action_name=Caught%20Red-Handed%3A%20How%20Hidden%20HTML%20Tags%20Are%20Exposing%20Secret%20AI%20Use%20in%20Fan%20Fiction&amp;urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.christopherspenn.com%2Ffeed%2F" style="border:0;width:0;height:0" width="0" height="0" alt="" />]]></description>
		
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		<title>Almost Timely News: &#128478;️ How to Connect an AI Agent to a Data Source (2026-07-19)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[_Almost Timely News: 🗞️ How to Connect an AI Agent to a Data Source (2026-07-19) :: View in Browser_ The Big Plug 👉 New book! 21 Use Cases of Generative AI For Marketers 👉 Please take my 6-question Reader Survey to tell me what you want! The drawing winner for the summer survey is Tiina!&hellip;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Stop Overpaying for Chatbots: How to Tell if an AI is Actually an Agent</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher S Penn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[PSA: Agents do stuff for you. In all the buzz about AI agents, very few people are using the term for what it means. Agents in computing are not new. We&#8217;ve had agents of some kind since 1963. Every time you take your phone and connect to a new wifi point, a slew of different&#8230;<img src="//www.christopherspenn.com/wp-content/plugins/matomo/app/matomo.php?idsite=1&amp;rec=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.christopherspenn.com%2F2026%2F07%2Fstop-overpaying-for-chatbots-how-to-tell-if-an-ai-is-actually-an-agent%2F%3Fpk_campaign%3Dfeed%26pk_kwd%3Dstop-overpaying-for-chatbots-how-to-tell-if-an-ai-is-actually-an-agent&amp;action_name=Stop%20Overpaying%20for%20Chatbots%3A%20How%20to%20Tell%20if%20an%20AI%20is%20Actually%20an%20Agent&amp;urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.christopherspenn.com%2Ffeed%2F" style="border:0;width:0;height:0" width="0" height="0" alt="" />]]></description>
		
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