A Google Lyria song about privacy. Even though modern privacy laws did not exist in 1930s Dust Bowl Oklahoma.
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I Had to Ask Why AI-generated Facebook Posts Are So Long
After encountering yet another Facebook post that seemed to go on forever, I asked Google Gemini the “why” question.
But note the last sentence of my prompt.
Why do people who use AI authored text for Facebook posts choose text that is twice as long as it needs to be? Answer succinctly.
Google Gemini’s succinct reply
People generally use overly long AI-generated text for Facebook posts for a few key reasons:
- The “Default” Bias: Most AI models are trained to be thorough and helpful, so their default output leans verbose. Users often just copy and paste the first result without editing it down.
- Perceived Value: There is a psychological bias where users feel a longer, more detailed post looks higher-effort, more authoritative, or more “professional,” even if it’s repetitive.
- Keyword Stuffing: Users sometimes ask the AI to include specific hashtags, emojis, and keywords for algorithmic reach, which naturally inflates the word count.
- Lack of Curation: Many people using AI for casual social media don’t want to spend time editing, defeating the purpose of using a “shortcut” tool in the first place.
No “Neutral Expression” When Free Lyria Songs Go Full Length
My latest Google Lyria song experiment surprised me.
I was playing back the song I had created when I noticed that the new song was longer than the standard 30 seconds. In fact, it was a full length three minute song, something only previously possible with paid versions of Lyria.
So I adjusted my prompt to take advantage of the length.
It’s probably no surprise that my latest Lyria song doesn’t touch on a couple who is never ever ever getting back together. Instead, I focused on the ICAO Doc 9303 “neutral expression” requirements I discussed in passing in this October 2025 post.
“But in one of those oddities that fill the biometric world, you can have TOO MUCH expression. Part 3 of International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Document 9303, which governs machine readable travel documents, mandates that faces on travel documents must maintain a neutral expression without smiling. At the time (2003) it was believed that the facial recognition algorithms would work best if the subject were expressionless. I don’t know if that holds true today.”
That should make for a catchy song, shouldn’t it? Judge for yourself in the song “Neutral Expression.”
Wonder if the woman liked it.
She did!
Dry To The Bone
You’re not gonna hear this song about dry fingerprint ridges on Top 40 radio. But for a select few biometric product marketers, it highlights a critically important issue.
Why?
Because dry fingerprint ridges, while not a common worry among the general populace, ARE a concern among law enforcement, homeland security, financial institution, and other professionals who depend on high-quality friction ridge capture to solve crimes and identify people.
And these people desperately need products that accurately capture fingerprints in challenging conditions.
And the product vendors need to communicate their product benefits to potential vendors. (Whoops, I mean prospects.)
That’s where Bredemarket comes to save the day.
Not with music.
(Thankfully.)
Through Bredemarket, I work with you to develop the customer-focused, benefits-oriented words that move your prospects toward your fingerprint capture solution.
If you want prospects to buy your identity product, schedule a free meeting with the biometric product marketing expert.
And…I couldn’t resist one more.
Non-Human Identity Verification Via Humans
Another way to verify non-human identities is to link them to human ones. This NotebookLM explainer (not by me) offers the details.
Hype
The picture above and text below were authored by Google Gemini.
Get ready to maximize your reality because our quantum-powered, generative AI agent is autonomously deploying a CRISPR-edited, synthetic biopolymer directly into your 5G-connected smart-home fabricator to 3D-print a hyper-personalized, self-driving robotaxi—instantly minting the entire experience as a fractionalized, Web3 DeFi asset with a secure NFT deed that grants your holographic avatar VIP entry into a fully decentralized, spatial-computing metaverse!
Some 2.45 Things You Do
A study entitled “Browsing behavior exposes identities on the web” (also cited by Biometric Update) offers an informative view of how “something you do” can identify you when combined with other things you do.
“Though most users are unique in their four most-visited domains, we find that we often need fewer data points for user identification. To determine how many domains are needed to pinpoint a user, we examine fingerprints at the individual level. For each unique user i, we randomly select a domain from their fingerprint and group all unique users who have that domain in their fingerprints (see Methods). Then, we select another most-visited domain from user i and narrow our group to those with both domains (Fig. 1c). We repeat this step, incrementally adding domains, until we isolate user i. At this point, we have a set of domains which exists only within user i’s fingerprint. Our analysis shows that we need an average of 2.45 steps to identify a unique user within the data set (Fig. 1d). This finding indicates that although four domains guarantee uniqueness, users’ distinct online habits facilitate their identification with fewer domains.”
Think about the four domains that YOU visit the most. If you don’t know what they are, Chrome users can visit chrome://site-engagement/ and order the list. I can almost guarantee that one of my four most-visited websites is NOT one of yours.
And as for my wildebeest friend…
This Morning’s Camera Fun
This morning I went to join my 6:00 am client / client’s client meeting and found my camera wasn’t working in Teams.
After the meeting I discovered that it wasn’t working in Google Meet either.
So I turned the computer off and turned it on again…still not working.
After exploring a bit, Windows told me that something else was using the camera…and also told me that something had turned the camera off. I assumed the latter was the correct diagnosis.
After exploring some more, including every function key combination, I found a barely visible switch.
Thanks, Google Gemini:
…there is no keyboard button to turn the camera off.
Instead, HP placed a physical privacy shutter directly at the top of the laptop screen.
Where to look and how to use it:
- Look at the very top bezel (border) of your laptop screen, right where the camera lens is centered.
- Directly next to or built into the glass over the lens, you will see a tiny manual sliding tab.
I slid the tab to the right, and my camera was working again.
I must have slid the shutter to the left yesterday when I transported the computer away from and back to my home.
Learn a new one every day…
BIPA Violations and “Investigative Journalism”
When I saw this statement in Biometric Update’s summary of a a BIPA lawsuit against Google for voiceprint use, I had to laugh.
“NotebookLM Audio Overviews can be used to generate podcasts, directly competing with investigative audio journalism and narration work.”
Invesigative audio journalism?
Have any of the plaintiffs ever HEARD a NotebookLM Audio Overview?
I shared one over a year ago when my LinkedIn profile was used to create the audio overview “Career Detective.” It’s so fawning about my amazing background that it is nowhere near investigative journalism.
Or maybe investigative journalisn is just that bad.
Judge for yourself whether this AI-generated “podcast” would compete with a real investigative podcast:
Is Your Identity/Biometric Firm Too Busy Putting Out Fires to Install a Sprinkler System?
It’s the classic case of paralysis by overwhelmedness. (Not officially a word, but bear with me here.)
Your identity/biometric firm needs experienced product marketing contract help because you are drowning in work. But because you’re drowning in work you can’t take the time to set up that contract.
Bredemarket can help you contract with Bredemarket.
Now there are certain things that Bredemarket can’t do. Well, Bredemarket could do them, but you (understandably) won’t let me.
- I can’t create my own contract with you. Actually I can, and I have with some clients, but your company probably requires that I use your contract, which I don’t have.
- I can’t enroll myself as a vendor in your purchasing system. Trust me, that would be dangerous. Hmm…net 5 terms at $1,000 per hour?
- I can’t onboard myself into your other internal systems. If I could, that would be a major security flaw.
But there are things that I can do to make your life easier when you onboard Bredemarket as a contractor/vendor…especially if you are an identity/biometric firm.
- You don’t have to explain to me what a bifurcation or ridge ending are. I’ve been working with fingerprints since 1994 and know these things.
- You don’t have to teach me how to spell NIST. While the 1985 interchange standard was before my time, I’m familiar with every ANSI/NIST standard since 1993 to the present day.
- You don’t have to explain to me what a “factor” and a “modality” are. Heck, I wrote the book on factors and modalities.
- You don’t have to create a briefing book. Just let me ask the questions and we’ll figure out the scope together.
So I can meet your partway. Then we’ll realize our mutual goal of making your products prominent and making the competitive products look weak.
So let’s talk and move the process forward.
Oh, and the title of this post was suggested by Google Gemini. AI is only a tool, but sometimes it’s a very effective tool. Sometimes.
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