# Benedict's Newsletter: No. 553 #Omnivore ## Colophon title:: Benedict's Newsletter: No. 553 type:: [[clipped-note]] tags:: [[&omnivore]] Newsletter 00._Must 98._-GA-GSA url:: https://omnivore.app/no_url?q=8c3f5424-c393-4ee2-a7db-3a2b1b44e6d5 archive:: https://omnivore.app/me/benedict-s-newsletter-no-553-1914c153c74 date:: [[2024-08-13]] ## Highlights tags:: > <mark class="omni omni-yellow">S&P Global is paying Accenture to train all 35k staff in ‘generative AI’. I used to joke that if you say ‘Digital Transformation’ three times, an Accenture partner will appear in a puff of smoke and offer you a contract - now the same happens for ‘AI’. Welcome to enterprise IT. [LINK](https://ben-evans.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b98e2de85f03865f1d38de74f&id=a6c4f3f8cb&e=bea6d9620d)</mark> [⤴️](https://omnivore.app/me/benedict-s-newsletter-no-553-1914c153c74#cff9c205-b790-4fd5-b340-d0dd68b654c5) ^cff9c205 🤣 tags:: > <mark class="omni omni-yellow">#### Instagram/Youtube targeting teenagers</mark> <mark class="omni omni-yellow">The FT reports that Instagram ran a user-acquisition campaign on Youtube targeting under-18s, which isn’t supposed to be allowed, partly by targeting people with ‘unknown’ age (a segment that skews under-aged), in connivance with Youtube. Bears, popes, woods… [LINK](https://ben-evans.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b98e2de85f03865f1d38de74f&id=5e38c66ee6&e=bea6d9620d)</mark> [⤴️](https://omnivore.app/me/benedict-s-newsletter-no-553-1914c153c74#f8a1d55b-8b20-4373-b228-f9519cae03ef) ^f8a1d55b [[to-lookup]] [Read on Omnivore](https://omnivore.app/me/benedict-s-newsletter-no-553-1914c153c74) [Read Original](https://omnivore.app/no_url?q=8c3f5424-c393-4ee2-a7db-3a2b1b44e6d5)