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Something Squirrely — Episode 6: You Built a Proprietary App. So Why Is It Training Their AI?
There are plenty of AI advertisements that deserve skepticism because the underlying product does not appear capable of doing what the advertisement promises. Hercules is more interesting because the product itself appears genuinely impressive. The Facebook advertisement that caught my attention makes a beautifully simple pitch: “No API keys. No DevOps. No agencies. No kidding.”…
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Something Squirrely — Episode 5: They Monetized the Loading Screen — and They’ll Give You Half
Every once in a while an advertisement appears that does not immediately make us think, “That’s bullshit.” Instead, it makes us wonder, “Why did nobody think of that sooner?” That was my reaction when an advertisement for Kickbacks.ai appeared in my Facebook feed with an unusual proposition: advertisers bid for the idle line displayed while…
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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…
