Nicola Candoni

Posts

  • OpenAI's Content Filter Blocks the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

    2026-03-125 min

    OpenAI's Codex refuses to repeat the Universal Declaration of Human Rights verbatim. A content filter triggered by the words 'United Nations' reveals how blunt AI safety guardrails really are.

    aiopenai
  • How StreetGap Classifies Italian Street Names at Scale

    2026-02-0215 min

    A technical overview of how StreetGap classifies roughly 874,000 Italian street records into person and non-person dedications, then builds a confidence-scored gender dataset.

    data-engineeringopen-datallmaiosm
  • Writing in Italian Costs More Than You Think

    2025-10-1711 min

    Tokenizers are optimized for English. Here's how much extra you pay when prompting in Italian — and how to measure it yourself.

    llmtokenizationaicost
  • The Ad You Won't Be Able to Recognize

    2025-08-294 min

    GenAI won't make advertising more relevant. It will make it indistinguishable from content. What happens when the boundary disappears?

    aiadvertisingmedia
  • Hello Blog

    2025-06-181 min

    A place to collect ideas, notes, and projects about AI, maps, and open data.

    metaaiopen-data