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- Multi-Persona AI Chatbots November 26, 2025What happens when nine different audience personas talk to each other inside a single AI chatbot? You get a shockingly candid, multi-angle snapshot of how real people think, argue, and decide. Here’s how multi-persona AI bots are reshaping strategic communications, audience insight, and digital marketing in real time. #GenerativeAI
- AI Chatbots Are The New Google November 26, 2025AI chatbots aren’t just new tools—they’re reshaping how people discover information, shop online, and make decisions. From Adobe’s consumer data to the accelerating LLM arms race, this article breaks down why natural-language chat is quietly becoming the next dominant discovery platform—and how brands must adapt before the shift reaches full speed. #GenerativeAI
- Midjourney Is Incapable Of Generating Images Of Ugly People November 22, 2025Is AI beauty-biased? A revealing experiment with Midjourney shows it struggles to create realistic images of ordinary—or “ugly”—people. Discover what this says about the data we feed AI, and what it means for bias, branding, and representation.
- 8 AI Marketing Trends For 2025 November 22, 2025What’s next in AI marketing? From synthetic influencers to infinite memory, these 8 trends will reshape how brands communicate in 2025. Learn what’s real, what’s hype, and what you must prepare for before your competitors do.
- The New Rules of Brand Discoverability November 22, 2025Discoverability is being reprogrammed. From 'zero-click' search to #AI gatekeepers and algorithm shifts, the old playbook is obsolete. Learn why your brand might be invisible and how to fix it.
- Fear & Loathing In SEOville November 21, 2025SEO jobs are vanishing, AI fear is spreading, and the industry is at a tipping point. Here’s what I saw and what smart SEOs need to do next.
- Multimodal ChatGPT November 20, 2025The future of computing just got a voice—and a face. From Alexa to Pi to ChatGPT-4o, David Erickson explores the evolution of multimodal AI and why we're inching closer to the world imagined in The Diamond Age. This isn’t just another tech update—it’s a glimpse into how AI might one day raise our kids.
- Mea Culpa November 18, 2025I'm back...even though I said I wouldn't be
- Opinion Polling Literacy January 29, 2024Lies, damn lies, and statistics. The uses and misuses of political polling and how to read a poll; how polling works.
- Substack's Nazi Problem January 15, 2024I'm moving off Substack. Here's why.