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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: Your 24/7 AI Sales Team Apparently Still Needs a Babysitter
There is a particular kind of advertisement that practically writes a Something Stinks article for us. It does not necessarily advertise a fake product. It does not have to make an obviously impossible promise. It simply has to present something in such wonderfully effortless terms that one question immediately comes to mind: What part are…
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Why Small Businesses Should Own Their Content Instead of Building Everything on Facebook
A small business can spend years building something online without realizing that much of what it has built exists entirely inside somebody else’s system. Articles are written directly into Facebook. Photographs are uploaded without local copies. Videos are edited inside an app and published without saving the finished master. Product descriptions exist only inside an…
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Why Your Small Business Website Should Be Your Home Base, Not Social Media
For years, small businesses have been encouraged to treat social media as if it were the internet itself. Start a Facebook page, build an Instagram following, post every day, chase engagement, learn the algorithm, make Reels, try TikTok, answer comments, join groups, and keep feeding the machine. Somewhere along the way, the actual business website…
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What the Hell, Valhalla Computers???
If you have been following Valhalla Computers lately, you may have noticed that things have gotten a little strange around here. There are skunks investigating suspicious claims, a squirrel poking around in contracts and pricing structures that do not quite add up, and now a badger carrying a shovel because apparently normal research was no…
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Something Stinks – Episode 10: Foxy.ai Selling the Dream Behind the Bikini
There are certain advertisements that make you stop scrolling because the product looks interesting. Then there are advertisements that make you stop because somebody apparently decided subtlety was for cowards. Foxy.ai landed firmly in the second category. Over the last several days, Facebook has repeatedly served us advertisements from Foxy showing attractive female creators, bikinis,…
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Free AI Video Generators Small Businesses Can Actually Try Before Paying
AI video has reached the point where a small business no longer needs a production company, a professional camera crew, or a giant advertising budget simply to experiment with video content. That does not mean AI has suddenly made professional video production free, effortless, or foolproof. Anyone who has spent an afternoon generating clips knows…
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Something Stinks – Episode 07: Your “Viral AI Influencer in Minutes” May Take a Little Longer Than That
There is a particular kind of advertisement becoming increasingly common on social media. It usually begins with a beautiful artificial person staring back at you from a carefully designed screen. The software promises that you can create your own AI influencer almost instantly. No expensive camera. No model. No photography experience. No technical knowledge. No…
