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Digging Deeper — Episode 3: The $3,000 House in Japan: Bargain, Money Pit, or a Souvenir You May Never Visit?
Every once in a while, an advertisement or social-media post comes along that sounds so ridiculous that the immediate reaction is to assume somebody left out a zero. Then you look into it and discover the number may actually be real, which is where things become much more interesting. A recent post making the rounds…
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Digging Deeper Episode 04: Tripo 3D — Free to Create, Paid to Use?
One of the reasons I moved this series from “Something Stinks” to “Digging Deeper” is because not every ad deserves to be dismissed on sight. Some deserve to be tested. Tripo 3D turned out to be one of those cases. Rather than simply looking at the marketing and making assumptions, I decided to create an…
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Digging Deeper – Episode 03: The MakePlay Test — Can One AI Prompt Really Build a Playable Game?
It started as a Something Stinks candidate. Then the damned thing actually worked. When an advertisement says you can describe a video game in a single prompt and have artificial intelligence create the pixel art, code, music, levels, gameplay and a finished playable game in your browser, my first reaction is probably the same as…
