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Start free trial →Pragmatic AI with Matt Stauffer · AI Builders · November 2026
Matt Stauffer asked whether content owners have any control over public chatbots such as ChatGPT or Claude. She says influencing them is surprisingly similar to SEO, and cites research on data poisoning as a sign of how little it takes to shift what they say.
It's just always three. Yeah. It's always three. And you can go in there and you can look at the code and you can say, oh, crap, and you can fix it.
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Probabilistic, which is AI, machine learning, and all that, you know, broadly, that whole bucket of things, one plus one is sometimes a different number. Usually it's two, but maybe not. And so at the end of the day, the question is: how deterministic does your content need to be? How predictable do you need it to be? And what are the use cases where predictability is critical? And what are the use cases where having it be more probabilistic and giving you the average of what's in the database is acceptable? That's the determination that you have to make. And so there's a lot of really fascinating questions about how you deal with this and what you do and what are your standards. Now, I think the brutal reality is that for product and technical content, generally the standard has not been that high. Like a lot of this content's not very good. And so just getting it to average feels like an improvement potentially. So here we are.
Yeah. So I'm going to, that was really, really, really helpful context. I'm going to re-ask one piece of my question because I'm still curious. Do you feel like your clients and the authors or the readers of this book have any control over how, I don't know what the right phrase is, but like…
So first, I mean, it's obviously true that if you build your own internal private processor, private chatbot, that you can control that. You can tell it what information it has access to. You can exclude things. You can tell it not to ask entertain questions like, what is the weather tomorrow? And…
Yeah.