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Something Squirrely — Episode 7: They’ll Give You the AI Girl for Free — They Just Want a Cut of Everything She Makes
There is one particular advertisement that has apparently decided it and I are now in a committed relationship because it keeps appearing in my Facebook feed. The message changes slightly, but the story remains pretty much the same: artificial-intelligence creators are making people serious money, you can get your first AI creator for free, you…
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Something Stinks – Episode 11: StoreMagic.ai Says AI Can Pick the Winners So You Don’t Have To
Sometimes an advertisement waits a few seconds before giving us a reason to start asking questions. This one managed it on the opening screen. The Facebook video served by Store Magic: AI Store Builder opened with the words “Unethical But Legal ways to start dropshipping — part 43.” Underneath the video, the advertisement promised a…
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Something Stinks – Episode 09: The AI That Says It Can Run Your Company While You Sleep
Every once in a while an advertisement crosses the screen that does not merely make a bold promise. It grabs the promise, straps a rocket to it, lights the fuse, and waits to see whether anybody asks questions before clicking the button. That is roughly how we ended up looking at Polsia, an AI platform…
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Something Stinks — Episode 06: The Shopify Shortcut Machine
“Free Store in 30 Minutes?” The Store Is the Easy Part Spend enough time scrolling through Facebook and eventually the algorithm seems to decide that what every aspiring entrepreneur really needs is a Shopify store. Not customers. Not a product strategy. Not a shipping plan, advertising budget, recognizable brand, return policy, customer-service system or any…
