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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 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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Something Squirrely — Episode 4: Unlimited AI Images for $99? Sure — If Your Computer Can Handle It
There are advertisements that immediately smell bad, and then there are advertisements that simply make you tilt your head, squint a little and wonder where the squirrel buried the nuts. This one falls into the second category. An advertisement from Distinct AI recently crossed my screen promoting Render FX, a desktop artificial-intelligence image generator. The…
