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The challenges that we came up with included writing tweets,

  The challenges that we came up with included writing tweets,  converting a press release into a blog post, coming up with a few blog post ideas (just a few sentences), writing an outline for one of them and using AI to write the intro and outro for this outline. It’s a hefty amount, but it covered the bases for what the person would be expected to do. We explicitly allowed the use of AI for all of these, and that came to bite us. Game On Shortly after we posted the job, the responses began to flood in, and we’re beyond grateful to have caught the eye of so many wordsmiths. The test assignment only went to the applicants who successfully passed two interviews,  so it took some time before those began to roll in, and there, we quickly realized we had a problem. Whether by their own choice or thanks to the references to ChatGPT in the job description and during the interviews, the candidates leaned heavily into it. Or did they?

Today, Shopify has changed its tune.

Today, Shopify has changed its tune. The move also comes as a bit of a surprise, given that it was only a year ago that Shopify was warning merchants not to use Amazon's Buy with Prime as it was in violation of Shopify's terms of service.  The company wanted its merchants to use its own payment and checkout service, Shop Pay instead. As a result, merchants who wanted to use Buy with Prime previously had to do so outside of their Shopify admin tools. "We’re on a mission to make commerce better for everyone. That means making sure our merchants are able to sell everywhere. To do this, we’re committed to giving our merchants and their customers more choice," Shopify wrote in its announcement.