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There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Researching shoes
This applies to our incessant use of generative AI, as Micah Willbrand found out the hard way.
Willbrand, a product expert who has worked for multiple identity companies, started his story by saying that he uses Perplexity AI.
I realize that many of you just fell off your chairs in shock. Because the first rule of Generative AI is that you ALWAYS talk about ChatGPT. Well, there are other generative AI tools. Deal with it.
Anyway, Willbrand was prompting Perplexity about shoes, and awaiting the responses.
Which were unreadable.
“Every result forced inserted an Apple map with shoe stores onto the response page. It was 2/3rds the screen. Now as a text based app primarily this is super annoying because you can’t see … The …. Text.”
Monetization gone bad
Should we be surprised? No.
Now I don’t fault software vendors for trying to make money. I have no sympathy for those who complain that Threads should never ever have ads because Facebook makes a bajillion dollars. If Threads isn’t making money for Meta, then Meta will kill it.
Where I DO have a problem is when a software vendor’s monetization efforts infringe with my ability to use the software.
This applies to some smartphone games in which you play the game for 30 seconds before you’re locked in to watching 60 seconds of ads.
And this also applies to what I fear will be the future format for generative AI responses.
“The best way to overcome a marketing challenge is to do something, rather than surrendering to paralysis. But before you begin…what would you do for a Klondike bar?”
Repurposing
And yes, this blog post was repurposed from something I wrote on the Bredemarket Technology Firm Services LinkedIn page. Now I just need an idea for a video…
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