2 days of AI noise, one honest wrap.
what the pubs yelled about all week. our read on what was worth hearing.
DAY BY DAY
MONMost AI tools work. That's the problem and the solution. Welcome to The Shrug Economy!Am I crazy? Anyone else seeing this?
Why is it this hard to tell AI fact from AI fiction, and where are the rational voices of the ever-elusive middle ground?
One camp spent the weekend calling it a bubble. The other called it a revolution. Both are selling you something. Neither one counted a thing.
So we checked what the people using AI tools are actually saying. The answer is neither and both and that's the problem and the solution.
Sound confusing? Read on...
THUChatGPT Is Now Officially A Search Engine. The Problem? It Started Selling Ads The Same Damn Day.Somebody is about to email you about getting your business into ChatGPT's answers.
Maybe they already did. Three times.
Here's what their email won't mention. On Sunday, regulators officially classified ChatGPT as a search engine, the first chatbot ever put in that box. On the exact same day, OpenAI announced its ad business crossed a billion dollars a year. Under two hundred days from a standing start.
One week. Zoned as a search engine, and open for advertising.
Nobody selling you "answer optimization" led with that part.
We checked our own database for anyone who has actually used these new AI visibility tools and gotten a result. What we found is the reason we're not recommending a single one.
Your free check, the question that ends the sales call, and our receipts below.