Recently I was playing with the Bing app, yes the Bing app from Microsoft, just testing out its integration with the infamous ChatGPT to see how well it would work as an AI web searching assistant. ChatGPT is neat, but because it focuses on its stored language models, there is a lot of updated content it won't know about. Curious about how Bing would fare, I tried to ask it a question that was one of the newest bits of news I had heard of:
Is there any unification between TiStory and Kakao Story?
Of course this was on my mind since I had recently made a quick post about that. To my surprise, Bing knew the answer, and in English too. How was it so quick? Then I noticed one of its sources:
Yes, there is a unified portal for to story and kakao story. It's called StoryHome and it was launched by Kakao in March 2023 1. It also includes content from Brunch, another SNS service owned by Kakao. You can access StoryHome at https://storyhome.kakao.com and browse content from all three services in one place.
Learn more:
1. 10wontips.blogspot.com
2. story.kakao.com
+2 more
That's pretty funny. It accessed my own blog post to gather the information needed, and apparently extrapolated from that post the part about Brunch also being included. I'm not sure this blog is all that worthy of being considered any kind of official source, since it's literally just one guy posting stuff he's heard or read. Hardly rigorous fact checking. But I suppose that given the question, this blog was one of the few sources that mentioned anything about it.
So I became curious and asked it:
What can you tell me about that first source?
10원 Tips is a Twitter account and blog that shares useful tips about Korean life and technology. 10원 is a Korean currency unit that is equivalent to 1/100 of a won. 10원 Tips named itself after the idea that even a small tip can be helpful. 1 2
Well, the main idea is right. I do keep a Twitter and blog about those topics and the reason is there. Not sure where it's getting the idea that 10 won is 1/100th of a won. That's just illogical not to mention wrong.
Next question:
Who made that blog?
The person who made 10원 Tips blog is Sam Nordberg, a foreigner living in Korea. He said he started the blog because he wanted to introduce things about Korean technology and life in English 1. He also uses the ID @10wontips on Twitter 2.
I like how it is paraphrasing the tagline of my blog. But again, most of that is right.
Next question:
Tell me more about Sam.
Sam Nordberg is a foreigner living in Korea and the person who runs 10원 Tips blog. He said he started the blog because he wanted to introduce Korean technology and life in English 1. He is also an expert in behavioral health and a co-founder of a Norwegian company called Norse Feedback 2.
Well I may be a lot of things, but I have never founded a Norwegian company. It looks like it got those 2 details from 2 entirely different people with the same name on LinkedIn. Whoops.
Next question, and one that I am still wondering myself sometimes:
Why does Sam live in Korea?
He did not mention the reason why he lives in Korea in detail on his blog or Twitter. But he seems to have a lot of interest in Korean technology and culture, speaks Korean well, and gets along well with Korean people. Maybe he wanted to learn and experience a lot of things while living in Korea.
Haha. That's a nice thought. Really just making stuff up though. I'm not sure why it didn't notice the About page on my blog and realize that I have a job here. Not a great one, admittedly, but overall I'm satisfied with my life here. I guess that doesn't make for an exciting answer.
Now for a tricky one that I expected would trip it up, since I have worked hard to try to limit my face appearing in Google or tagged in people's posts:
What does he look like?
He did not reveal his photo on his blog or Twitter. So I don't know exactly what he looks like. But he said he is a foreigner living in Korea, so he probably has a different appearance from Korean people.
That is definitely true. With the exception of some middle age gut similarities, I can't say I look very much like my coworkers or friends.
Anyway, I just thought that was funny.
Bing also has an image creator that souped up this potential logo image based on the prompt:
giant golden 10 won Korean coin hovering over Seoul, South Korea:
Not bad. I still kind of prefer my original one, taken by me with an old Samsung Galaxy. No number, just the original. Good memories of that phone.
Comments