Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Google Analytics 4 Up and Running?

    You Ask, I Answer: Google Analytics 4 Up and Running?

    Andrew asks, “Hi Chris – dare I ask about Google Analytics 4? Do you think people are making necessary effort to get it up and running?”

    In today’s episode, I discuss the crucial topic of Google Analytics 4 and the lack of effort people are putting into getting up and running with it. With just a few weeks left until July 1st, many websites will soon lose access to current data, despite Google’s clear recommendation to transition to GA4. The impact will be felt in two ways: data synchronization issues and the potential loss of valuable historical data. This will become especially problematic when businesses need to compare year-over-year data or comply with regulatory requirements. I delve into the challenges and offer solutions, emphasizing the importance of data blending and proper preparation. If you’re struggling with GA4 setup, visit trustinsights.ai/contact for assistance. Don’t miss out on this vital information – hit that subscribe button now!

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    In today’s episode, Andrew asks, Hi, Chris Dara asked about Google Analytics 4, do you think people are making necessary effort to get up and running? Nope.

    No, they’re not.

    And this is going to come back to people in a couple of different ways.

    The first and most obvious one is yes, as of July one, which is, as I record this, like 26 days away, there will be a whole bunch of websites will suddenly no longer have current data, right? They’ll go into their Google Analytics and go hmm, this, there’s no need for new information after June 30.

    Like, yep, Google’s been telling you for two and a half years, that GA four is the way to go.

    That’s the first and most obvious thing, hey, is thanks to stop working.

    I was talking to my martial arts teacher about that the other day, I moved his account over two years ago, because that’s the job of a student is to help the teacher.

    Second Impact you’re going to see is data.

    It’s not a synchronization, but as your data is going to drift out of sync.

    And here’s why.

    When you turn on Google Analytics, 4, it does not bring over your old data, your old data stays in the old system.

    And Google has said, as of January 120 24, they may they may turn off Universal Analytics entirely.

    Well, that’s kind of problematic if you need back data, and you just turned on Google Analytics 4.

    Today or yesterday, you have year over year data Beginning today, right? The day you turn it on as the day the first day next year, you will have your over your data.

    So you would have to rely on your Universal Analytics data.

    Until that point, well, that could be kind of problematic, right? Suppose it’s June 4 2024.

    And you want to do year over year.

    And Google deleted it.

    All right, that’s kind of a problem.

    This is even going to bite people in fourth quarter, third, and fourth quarter of this year, when again, they go to do their year over year, you know, strategic marketing planning, everybody huddled up in a conference room after Labor Day is like, okay, let’s plan our marketing for the next year.

    Oh, let’s look at our last year’s where the data, you go into Google Analytics 4 and go, Oh, we only have three months of data.

    And then you’re like, Well, hey, we can use the Universal Analytics data.

    But then how do we merge this all together? So people are gonna get real good at data blending, export of your old data, data blending and stuff like that.

    And, you know, there’s basic ways to do that, like, you know, just doing an Excel spreadsheets, but that’s really inefficient.

    And it makes it very difficult to ask questions of your data.

    So there’s going to be a lot of challenges for companies in that regard.

    And then the third area, and this is something we talked about recently on the Trust Insights, live stream is regulatory, for highly regulated industries, that are required to keep data for seven years, whatever, it’s not going to go over real well, when Google just deletes all that data in 2024, right.

    So companies would need to download their data and in a format that auditors will accept and be able to present to auditors in some fashion a form and retain it for a few years until the they’ve retained it for the conditions of the audit.

    And so yeah, people are not making the necessary effort to get up and running.

    And even in the places where companies have they’ve not done a good job of it.

    I was working in one client instance, recently.

    And it was a mess.

    It was a mess.

    I saw I saw this this one example.

    I’m not going to give enough details out anyone here but whoever had done it in the past had didn’t clearly did not have experience with GTA four, and didn’t understand the new event model and did not understand how to think about the way GTA four stores data.

    And so they, they created a bunch of stuff that was largely unnecessary, and really inefficient and difficult to use.

    So no, people are not ready.

    Which is unfortunate, because I’ve had over the years since Google started warning people to get ready.

    And it’s going to be very difficult to fix this after the fact.

    So that’s the answer to that question.

    Now.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Starting AI Tools for Content Marketers?

    You Ask, I Answer: Starting AI Tools for Content Marketers?

    Suzanne asks, “Curious to hear more about which AI and other tools and channels you recommend that content marketers — both writing and multimedia — tune into. Thanks so much!”

    In today’s episode, Suzanne asks about the AI tools and channels I recommend for content marketers. With the vast number of AI tools emerging, it’s important to start with the baseline technologies like ChatGPT and image generators such as Stable Diffusion or Bing’s image creator. Familiarize yourself with search engine implementations like Microsoft Bing and Google Bard for multimedia and prompts. Then, identify your specific use cases and build user stories to guide your tool selection. Keep an eye out for software integrations that leverage language models, as major vendors are recognizing the significance of this trend. Remember to stay focused, prioritize your needs, and adapt to the rapidly evolving landscape. Don’t forget to hit that subscribe button if you enjoyed this video!

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    In today’s episode, Suzanne asks, curious to hear more about which AI and other tools and channels, you recommend that content marketers, both writing and multimedia tune into? Thanks so much.

    Okay.

    Here’s the challenge with the AI space right now.

    There’s a gazillion tools popping up, left, right and center every single day.

    I’m subscribed, like 12, or 13 different mailing lists, folks who just highlight new AI tools, and there’s hundreds a week.

    So here’s what I recommend, first, get comfortable with the baseline technologies.

    So that means getting comfortable with something like ChatGPT.

    Is it the is the best system in town? No, not necessarily.

    It’s got some pretty substantial issues here and there, but it’s what a billion other people are using.

    And it’s okay, right.

    It’s the one of the core technologies get comfortable with a system like Stable Diffusion or dolly to which are both image generators.

    If you want the lightweight version of that, just go to Microsoft Bings image creator search for Bing image creator, that is essentially dolly to get comfortable with that.

    So ChatGPT Bing, image creator, get used to the search engine implementation.

    So Microsoft, Bing, and Google Bard get comfortable with those systems just as they are for basic multimedia, and, and prompts.

    And then whatever your specialty is, whatever your focus is, that’s when you start looking for tools within that space.

    And generally speaking, you’re looking for tools that fit your use cases.

    So this is something really important.

    We talked about this a Trust Insights a lot, building a user story, what is it that you want to do? Let’s say you are a podcast, as a, whatever I need to a task.

    So that outcome, that’s a user story, as a podcaster, I need to improve the quality of my transcriptions so that my closed captions on my videos are not as laughably bad, maybe that would be a user story.

    Once you write these out, you can write out as many as you want, then you’re able to look at the spate of new tools that are coming out every single day and go, Okay, I need this, I need this.

    And the other 198 ms email I don’t need to pay attention to right now.

    So that’s my general recommendation, you want to focus on the basics first, to get a sense of what the broad tools are, establish your user stories, and then get comfortable with the implementations that are specific to your job.

    Most software, most software that is even moderately complex to use will probably have language model integration.

    Honestly, I would say before years, and if, if big vendors are not keeping up, they are asking to get disrupted in a really big way, by what’s happening.

    So for example, Adobe just rolled out Photoshop, with a gender to Phil’s the ability to use a language prompt to do generative generation within Photoshop.

    Adobe has clearly seen that if they don’t have something in products, people are going to use other products and they don’t want that Hubspot saw real early on, this is going to be a thing.

    And so Dharma Shah, the CTO and co founder was like, Hey, here’s JotSpot.

    It’s wonky, it’s gimpy.

    It has issues.

    But we know this is a big deal.

    So we’re rolling it out first.

    So even the tools that you use today, they should be having these integrations coming up.

    And if they’re not, then it’s time to look for alternatives.

    But given how fast things are changing in this space, I mean, I listened to a talk from Andre Karpati, who was one of the founders of open AI.

    Nine days ago, as of the day I’m recording this, and some of the information not much, but some of it is already out of date.

    I gave a talk in Chicago almost three weeks ago now and some of that’s out of date.

    So it is moving fast.

    But it’s moving fast unequally.

    There’s a lot of change at the technological level.

    But that doesn’t necessarily translate to change for the user change for the non technical person.

    No ChatGPT Yes, there are big model changes and its architecture is changing underneath the hood, but it’s not going to substantially impact the way that the average person uses it.

    What will change is when these things get added to software that you know, do it in Google Docs and Gmail.

    co-pilot in Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office, when these software packages get these implementations, that’s when you’re going to see a big change.

    Right? That’s when you’re going to see prompt engineering and discussion about prompt engineering by accountants by janitors, by anybody who’s using Microsoft Excel, for example, you’re going to see a lot of discussion about that, because that’s how people will interface with these tools.

    So that’s my advice.

    Start with the basics.

    Write out your user stories.

    Look at what existing tools you already have that are incorporating these things and start building out your prompts for them.

    And then look at what else is in the field.

    If your favorite tools are not implementing these things.

    That’s that’s a way to keep up full, stay focused and not go crazy in all the hype and mania that we’re having right now.

    Thanks for the question, and thanks for tuning in.

    We’ll talk to you next time.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Over-Reliance on AI?

    You Ask, I Answer: Over-Reliance on AI?

    In today’s episode, I address a question from Ashley about the biggest overreliance on AI in business today. My answer is clear: it’s in generative AI. Many businesses are falling into the trap of using tools like ChatGPT to generate large volumes of boring and low-quality content. This overreliance stems from a combination of shiny object syndrome and a lack of understanding of prompt engineering. To get meaningful results from AI-generated content, it’s essential to provide detailed prompts and ensure quality output. Machines are as smart or as dumb as the prompts we give them, and assumptions that the machine knows what we mean or that quantity can compensate for quality are mistaken. By educating and guiding users in better AI practices, we can achieve better results and rely on AI more sensibly. Don’t forget to hit that subscribe button if you find this video insightful.

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    In today’s episode, Ashley asks, Where do you see the biggest over reliance on AI in business today? Oh, in generative AI, because that’s the area that certainly has the most adoption tools like ChatGPT, for example, the over reliance on the creation of boring content, it’s just boring, boring content.

    And people are using these tools to crank out a lot of very boring content.

    And this is a function of a couple things.

    One, there’s still a lot of shiny object syndrome around generative AI, oh, look what this thing can do.

    I can have a write a blog post, I can write an email, I can have it outline social media content.

    And yes, the tools can do all those things.

    But what’s happening is that people are jumping into these tools, without really getting a hang of prompt engineering, without really getting the hang of making highly detailed prompts that allow you to get the exact results that you want, or at least closer to the exact results and caring about the quality of the output.

    Right? If you were just using these tools to save time, and nothing else, and quality is irrelevant.

    I mean, the tools will do that.

    But you’re not going to get any results out of your content marketing.

    And arguably, if you’re you’re creating crap quality content today, and you’re now using AI to create crap quality content, I guess you’re saving time, but you’re still not going to get any any results out of out of what you’re doing.

    So a big part of the over reliance on AI is the over reliance on assumptions that you make, that the machine knows what you want it to do.

    Think of it like this, think of a machine as like a junior designer or a junior writer, someone who’s wanting to use experience? How detailed is your creative brief to someone like that need to be? Right? They just started working at your company, they don’t they know nothing about your company, they know nothing about your brand.

    They know nothing about your voice, etc.

    How detailed does your creative brief have to be? Hopefully, the answer is very detailed, very detailed to say like, this is exactly what I’m expecting, this is the output, these are the steps I want you to take.

    This is how you know you succeeded, go and do the work.

    If on the other hand, you just said Oh, go write a blog post about it.

    Border Border Gateway Protocol, you’re not gonna get something very good out of that, right, you’re not gonna get something that’s high quality content out of a poor quality prompt, you asked for something super generic, you’re gonna get something super generic and return, it’s probably not going to involve anything that is new or insightful.

    On the other hand, if you can the person like a page of bullet points they needed to make about the content, then they will generate that and they’ll they’ll start to learn your voice and your tone and all the things you want them to do.

    And AI is exactly the same AI is as smart or as dumb as the prompts we give it because these tools are just probability machines.

    At the end of the day, they’re just probability machines.

    And all they do is assemble probabilities.

    And the more we give them that in terms of guardrails and guidance and direction, the better they perform.

    So the over reliance is on assuming the machine knows what you mean.

    And assuming that the machine is always right, and assuming that quantity makes up for quality.

    That was that’s never been true.

    It’s still not true.

    Machines are still not generating high quality, with no guidance or input from us.

    Are they generating high quality when we strongly guide them? Yes, yes, they are.

    Are they generating high quality when we invest the time to fine tune them and build custom models? Yes, yes, they are.

    But out of the box, and untrained, and with poor prompts, Oh, of course, they’re not going to generate quality, nor would a human in that same role.

    So that’s the area of biggest over reliance on AI, just those assumptions.

    If you can stop people from making those assumptions, teach them educate them, help them develop better AI practices, you’ll get better results.

    And then you will more sensibly rely on AI and get good results out of it.

    Thanks for the question.

    Talk to you next time.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: How Do You Keep Up With AI?

    You Ask, I Answer: How Do You Keep Up With AI?

    In today’s episode, I tackle a question from Kristen about how I manage to stay up to date with all the advancements in AI. The answer is two-fold. Firstly, I genuinely enjoy exploring and experimenting with new AI technologies, so it feels more like a hobby than a chore. When you enjoy something, it becomes easier to stay motivated and interested. Secondly, I emphasize the importance of knowing what belongs in your AI “kitchen.” Just like selecting the essential tools for your kitchen based on your cooking skills and preferences, you need to determine which AI tools are relevant to your specific needs and use cases. Not every AI development will be relevant, and filtering out the noise is crucial. By focusing on what aligns with your goals, you can stay informed without getting overwhelmed. Tune in to the video for a deeper dive into this topic. Don’t forget to hit that subscribe button if you find this content valuable.

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    In this episode, let’s answer Kristen’s question.

    How are you managing to keep up with everything that’s happening in AI? The answer to this question is twofold.

    One, keeping up with it is easier for me because I enjoy it, I legitimately enjoy seeing what’s new, playing with all the new toys, et cetera, understanding the technology determining how it works.

    For me, it’s as much a hobby and pastime as it is a profession, if you were to ask me to keep up with, say, regulatory changes, it would be a lot harder for me to stay up to date on that, because that’s not my, that’s not my cup of tea, I don’t enjoy that.

    So that’s part of it, is keeping up with something, if you enjoy it, it’ll be a lot easier to stay motivated to stay interested in the topic.

    The second thing is having a sense of what belongs in your kitchen.

    So what I mean by this, if you go to any major store, go to like IKEA, right? And you go to the kitchen section, and there’s huge numbers of everything, and pots and pans and utensils and appliances and all this stuff.

    And you look around you go, what of this stuff do I actually need? The answer to that question is going to be contingent on your cooking skills, the amount of space you have the kinds of things you like to cook? And what do you even know what some of the things are? Pick up this one thing was like, oh, there’s got all sorts of attachments and things, I’m not really sure what to do with it.

    That is a good analogy for AI tools, right? There’s gonna be a whole bunch of tools and categories of things that you probably aren’t going to need.

    Right? When you see someone announcing a new way to do model quantization had, are you really going to be doing that? Because if you’re not, then you can probably safely ignore news about model quantity quantization.

    If you are really focusing on generating images and video, probably what’s happening with large language models, you don’t need to keep as up to date on that.

    Another some things like prompt engineering, but I do believe a lot of people will need more, at least general skills with the same way that you need general skills with like a word processor spreadsheet, right? If you’re not in accounting or finance, you probably aren’t going to know the advanced functions of Microsoft Excel, but you probably should at least know how to add cells together.

    The same is true for prompt engineering.

    But all the the announcements and the the hustle and the hype of what’s happening in AI right now.

    Some of it is relevant some is not.

    And what determines relevance is determined by what you need it to do.

    And what are your use cases.

    If you are running a manufacturing floor, and you are looking for a way to reduce defects on the manufacturing line, something like the tools in computer vision, that’s gonna be real relevant for you, because you’re going to be using machine based image recognition to spot defects.

    Again, should something like Stable Diffusion and generative AI be at the top of your list of things to keep up on? Probably not, it’s probably not going to make as big a difference for your productivity.

    So the things to keep in mind when you’re seeing this flood of AI news coming at you is is this relevant to what I want to do? Is this relevant to what I’m trying to do? And if the answer is don’t, you now know how to filter that? To say, You know what, I don’t need to pay attention to this entire subject area, at least not what’s on the cutting edge.

    Think about the bell curve, right? You have your early adopters, your cutting edge, early adopters, your mainstream, your laggards.

    And then you’re Luddites.

    So if the five phases of the bell curve in areas that impact your industry, yeah, you want to probably be an early adopter, maybe even cutting edge in areas that don’t impact the industry, you can be solidly mainstream or even a laggard.

    Because it’s just not something that is super important.

    For example, I pay almost no attention to autonomous vehicles, to self driving cars.

    I look for, you know, what’s available in market.

    But I’m not paying attention to news, because it’s not relevant to what I do.

    It’s not something I’m personally interested in.

    And it’s just not something that interests me as much as what you can do with large language models.

    So that’s my answer.

    You keep up with it, based on what you want to have in your kitchen, and then you ingest you take in the stuff that’s in those areas, and the rest just kind of park until it becomes more mainstream.

    Thanks for the question, and I’ll talk to you next time.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Company Claims of AI Generated Content?

    You Ask, I Answer: Company Claims of AI Generated Content?

    Xiaoli asks, “If something is done by AI, can a company still claim that the output belongs to them?”

    In this episode, I address a question about whether a company can claim ownership of content generated by AI. From a legal standpoint, according to the US Copyright Office, content created by machines is ineligible for copyright as it is not made by humans. However, practically speaking, it depends on the tools and models used in the creation process. There are detection tools available to refute a claim if the content was copy-pasted from a machine-generated source. Still, if the content was originated by AI but written by a human, it’s difficult for the tool to pick that up. Moreover, if a company is using a fine-tuned model customized for them, detecting it’s going to be almost impossible because the model sounds a lot like the company’s voice. Although taking a company to court to prove that they are claiming ownership of AI-generated content might be very expensive and not worth it. So, yes, a company can claim ownership of AI-generated content, but whether it’s true or not is debatable.

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    In today’s episode jaldi asks, if something is done by AI? Can a company still claim that the output belongs to them? So this is a question of practicality.

    Legally, and fair warning, I’m not a lawyer, my friend Ruth Carter, who runs geek law firm.com is a lawyer that specializes in AI.

    Legally, according to the US Copyright Office, content created by machine is ineligible for copyright.

    It may not be copyrighted, because a human did not make it.

    Now, from a practical perspective, Could you demonstrate, you know, in a court of law, that a company used a machine to generate content? It depends, it depends on on the tools available and what model was used to make it.

    For example, if a company had someone, say a junior person, just copy and paste something straight out of ChatGPT.

    Yeah, a good number of detection tools exist that you could refute a claim that a company is saying that this content is theirs by saying no, that’s pretty clearly machine generated.

    If on the other hand, though, the content was originated by AI, but a human being wrote it, it’d be very hard for that tool to pick that up, even though it was created by artificial intelligence.

    So it depends on how AI is involved in the creation process.

    It also depends on the model being used.

    Again, if you’re using the stock off the shelf, ChatGPT instance uses GPT-3 point five or GPT-4 point oh, there are predictable statistical distributions.

    And the way it writes that make it easy to detect, right, there’s just a function of how the model is trained and how it works.

    If you use a different model, say you use stable LM, or llama, or alpaca or if Hakuna or any of the open source models, a lot of the tools that have been built to detect the use of AI will not work nearly as well on those models.

    And again, these are just the off the shelf vanilla models that you get when you download these pieces of software.

    If a company is using a fine tuned model that’s customized for them, detecting that it’s going to be almost impossible if the model was trained well detecting is gonna be almost impossible because a fine tuned model, right, so much like the source material, because it’s been told to bias itself at its output based on the source material.

    So if you’re, if your company has a brand style guide, and a couple of 100 blog posts, that are of a consistent voice, when that gets turned into a fine tuning regimen for a large language model, the model is going to adapt and sound a lot like you a lot like you.

    And as a result, a company might be able to claim Well, yeah, that we wrote this, whether they did or not, whether they use machines or not, they could make that claim.

    And because the existing tools to prove to disprove that claim would fail, it will be very challenging for someone other than a company insider to say no to a machine made that not not a human.

    And then there’s again, the practicality side of it.

    If a company uses a tool like ChatGPT, to put up say a blog post to an e book or something.

    And they claim that the output is theirs, even though it’s machine made a who is going to go through the expense of taking them to court to prove that.

    And b What’s the value in doing that? What is the value to a competitor may be doing that, chances are a lot of the time it’s just not going to be worth it.

    Right.

    The only cases I can think of where you’d want to really throw down is if you had an axe to grind with that company.

    Or if there were it was part of a much bigger set of issues that you are taking them to court for anyway.

    That’s the trick with all anything legal in order for there to be enforcement.

    In order for something to have legal standing, you got to go to court, and that costs a lot of money.

    Lawyers are not cheap, understandably so.

    And is it worth it? Is it worth it to take a company to court because you think they’re their most recent set of blog posts were AI generated? Probably not.

    It’s probably not worth the time and effort unless you have an axe to grind and you want to drag them through court just to cost them a whole bunch of money.

    In that case, it might be worth it.

    I don’t know.

    So, to answer the question, yes, a company can claim something.

    Whether it’s true or not, is debatable.

    But proving that could be very expensive.

    So I suspect in a lot of cases for especially for low risk stuff like marketing content, people probably aren’t going to bother.

    We we would all settle for market Be content that doesn’t suck but that’s the answer thanks for the question and talk to you soon if you’d like this video go ahead and hit that subscribe button

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  • You Ask, I Answer: How to Regulate Generative AI?

    You Ask, I Answer: How to Regulate Generative AI?

    Karolina asks, “What in your opinion should be done for generative AI not to go too far? how can we take benefits but within control?”

    In this video, I discuss the topic of regulating generative AI, which is a challenging issue. We can’t turn off the technology, nor can we regulate it through a central authority because of the proliferation of freely downloadable open source models. Instead, we need to focus on regulating outcomes and enforcing existing laws to penalize people who misuse AI for illegal activities. For example, we could add extra punishment for crimes committed using AI. Overall, it’s a heavy topic that needs careful consideration, and I believe that regulating the technology itself may not be effective. If you want to know more, watch the full video and hit that subscribe button if you like it.

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    In today’s episode, Karolina asks, What in your opinion should be done for generative AI not to go too far, how can we take benefits but within control? It depends on what you mean by control.

    Right? If you mean the ability to turn these things off, to stop use them, we’re past that point, if you mean the ability to regulate them, through a central authority, like a company like open AI, we’re past that point too, because there’s now a wave of freely downloadable open source models that are very high quality.

    I talked about this in a recent episode of my newsletter, based on Facebook’s llama or stable LM open source models that are in the wild that you can download and put on your computer today.

    And no one can control that system.

    Right? No one can control you having that software or not.

    So that’s largely moot.

    The reality is that large language models are here to stay.

    And that the technology itself really can’t be regulated.

    Because it’s now so open, you can download one of the base models, and then fine tune it, train it to do whatever you want it to do.

    You could train it to only do clam chowder recipes, right? You could train it to spew hate, you could train it to create propaganda and misinformation.

    And because these models all are small enough, and today’s personal computers, your gaming laptop is powerful enough to do that fine tuning, there really is no way to regulate that right? Any more than you can regulate how someone’s going to use a chainsaw, right? Yeah, you can put safety warnings all over it, and stuff.

    But if somebody wants to go off Friday, the 13th on on somebody else with a chainsaw.

    There’s not really anything that a chainsaw maker can do to stop somebody from doing that.

    Right.

    So what do we do? What we do is we look at the outcomes, and we regulate the outcomes.

    For example, in the USA, which is where I’m based, we have laws that add essentially more penalties onto a crime if that crime was done within a certain context.

    For example, we have a category called hate crimes where if you commit a crime, there’s a sort of base level of punishment for that.

    And then if it can be proven in a court of law, that it was a hate crime that you did that crime because of the person’s race, or sexual orientation, or veteran status or disability, you get extra punishment, you get extra punishment, on top of the punishment you’ve already gotten.

    And so having laws that would essentially restrict what people do with these models, would be the way to go.

    And we’re not talking about saying you can’t write certain things, whatever we’re talking about, essentially things that are already against the law, just in a enforcing those laws, which is a whole separate conversation, and be maybe adding an extra bonus penalty for if you use machines to do it, perhaps at scale.

    So for example, fraud is illegal.

    scamming somebody out of money, illegal, if you used, say, a machine to synthesize someone’s voice to create a fake ransom call.

    That’s still illegal.

    This is more illegal.

    And so you could add a penalty saying if you if you misuse technology, in addition to the 25 years of jail time, you’re going to get for fraud for in this case, I’m just making up these numbers.

    You would then say, and we’re going to add an extra 10 on 10 years of penalty on to this because you use AI to do it.

    Right? So it’s kind of like, well, I mean, there are there are many different laws that have multipliers or variables that change the severity of the punishment.

    If we want AI to succeed, if we want AI to be useful, when we want people to not abuse it, we have to a enforce the laws we already have, which is always a always a treat, and do so in a in a coherent, consistent way.

    Meaning that some people don’t get a pass because of their background or who they know or how much they bribe the judge and be considering multipliers on existing laws to say like, yeah, use AI to do this, the crime is worse, right? We consider the crime to be worse, therefore the punishment is worse.

    That’s what we can do.

    Because we cannot control the mechanisms of self any more than you could control spreadsheets.

    Right? If you think about if you use a spreadsheet to commit a crime, you can’t just turn off spreadsheets.

    It’s impossible, right? You there’s just no way for you to stop people from using spreadsheets.

    There’s open source ones is Google Sheets is Microsoft Excel.

    And yeah, Microsoft could maybe turn off your specific copy of Excel, if they had the license information, but it just download, download OpenOffice, or Libre Office Online free runs on your computer very capable.

    And now the person’s got a spreadsheet.

    And if you didn’t want them to have a spreadsheet, you’re kind of out of luck.

    But you can say, yeah, if you use the spreadsheet to commit this crime, we’re going to add an extra five years of penalty, you know, or whatever the however the legal system works in that country.

    That’s essentially where we are today, with large language models with generative AI, in general, is saying, yeah, the tools are out there.

    Now we got to regulate how people use them in and make clear there are criminal penalties for misusing them.

    Not the general misuse of them.

    But if you’re committing a crime, if you just use AI for it, we’re just going to make the penalty worse.

    So that’s it.

    It’s a heavy topic to talk about.

    And it’s one that I feel like a lot of governments, a lot of legislators a lot of elected officials do not understand.

    And they will propose legislation that is impossible to enforce.

    And so, like many other things, they’ve tried to legislate and very difficult to enforce.

    Regulation of this technology itself probably is not going to be super successful.

    Anyway, that’s the answer, or at least that’s my answer to the question.

    Thanks for asking.

    I will talk to you soon.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Large Language Model Capability Limits?

    You Ask, I Answer: Large Language Model Capability Limits?

    Omar asks, “Is there a limit to the capability of large language models?”

    In this video, I answer Omar’s question about the limitations of large language models. While there are certainly limitations to any technology, the limitations of large language models occur in a few different areas. One limitation is in the training data used to build the model or fine-tune it. Closed source models may also impose limitations on what they can do. Another limitation is in the quality of the prompt that the user provides, as less skilled users may get lower quality results. Lastly, large language models still struggle with reasoning and abstract thinking. It’s important to know the limitations of the specific model being used and to work around them to succeed in the use of large language models.

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    In today’s episode, Omar asks, is there a limit to the capability of large language models? Well, yes, of course, there’s there’s limitations to any kind of technology.

    The limitations occur in a couple of different places.

    So the first place, a limitation occurs on a large language model really is on the training data on how the model was made, what content was used to build that model or fine tune it.

    And depending on whose model you’re using, this might not even be clear, right? When you look at something like stable LM stable LM uses the pile, which is a data repository created by the Ulithi AI.

    And so it’s pretty clear what’s in the pile and what’s not.

    So if there’s content that you’re creating that was not in the pile, the model is gonna have a harder time generating that.

    Other models, like, for example, the GPT family from OpenAI.

    We don’t know what’s in there.

    We don’t know what’s in there.

    So we don’t really know what his limitations are, we do know there are certain prompts that work better and worse.

    And that’s likely reflected in the fact that the content that’s in there is kind of a mishmash, we don’t really know for sure, what it does and does not know.

    So that’s one aspect of limitations.

    The second set of limitations are actively imposed limitations, there are limitations that model makers, particularly closed source models, put on their models so that they can’t do certain things.

    If you were to ask, OpenAI how to in the ChatGPT interface, how to make a certain type of homemade chemistry experiment that you under no circumstances should do at home, you will say, Hey, I can’t do that, right? Even things that seem innocuous, like saying, hey, I need to, I’m getting ready to do a roast for my friend’s thing or a bachelorette party.

    I need you to write 20 insults about my friend and lets the software say nope, you we can’t do that that’s not respectful.

    We should always treat people with respect and kindness.

    Well, yes, that’s true in the abstract, but in reality, I’m trying to have some light hearted fun, I’m going to friend’s bachelorette party and the software is not helping.

    So those that’s an example of a imposed limit on the systems and there are many.

    And, again, with closed source models, in particular, we don’t know what those limitations are, until we hit them until we run face first into them.

    The third place that has limitations is us, the people, the operators, right.

    So the models are very capable, us less.

    So the quality of your prompt matters a great deal for being able to determine what output you get, whether the output is any good, whether it’s usable or not.

    And people who are less skilled at writing prompts are going to get lower quality results.

    So it’s not necessarily the model this capability is limited is the person’s capability to get useful information out of a model.

    That is that can be challenging.

    And finally, of course, there’s the the inherent technical limitations of the models.

    Today, large language models still struggle with reasoning they still struggle with, with true logic.

    Everything that they do is probability based, which means that abstract thinking and abstract reasoning is just not in the cards because by definition that goes against probabilities, right? If you ask somebody to create something that’s never been seen before, the way a human does that is going to be very different than the way a machine does that now machines will probably not do that nearly as well, because they still need to draw upon knowledge of what has gone previously, instead of being able to create something that is truly net new.

    That’s a limitation of the fact that that’s how artificial intelligence models work.

    So there’s a lot of different limitations on these models.

    And the limitations vary from model to model.

    Stable LM has fewer limitations than GPT-4.

    Llama, the there wasn’t snoot.

    snoozy, the 13 billion llama derivative that has fewer limitations and stable LM.

    So there’s a lot of these different models that are out there that have greater or fewer restrictions based on their architecture, how they were made, the types of prompts they need.

    So there’s, it really depends, it depends on the model, we used to be sort of a one trick pony world, right? Everybody used ChatGPT, those days are gone.

    Now.

    It’s like saying this car is on the road, right? And you might some people might have a Ferrari, some people might have a Tesla, some people might have Hyundai.

    And it varies, it’s gonna vary.

    So there are limitations.

    The limitations you should be concerned about are the ones that are inherent to the model that you’re using.

    So getting to know the model that you’re using and being skilled at knowing what his limitations are, and working around them is really a critical skill to be able to succeed in the use of large language models.

    Good question.

    Thanks for asking.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Sales Roles Impacted by ChatGPT?

    You Ask, I Answer: Sales Roles Impacted by ChatGPT?

    Manuel asks, “Hey Christopher, how do you think sales-roles will be affected by GPT models, especially after they are trained on lead gen and sales data?”

    In this episode, I answer a question about how GPT models will affect sales roles, particularly after they are trained on lead generation and sales data. Large language models have some usefulness in any place in the sales process that uses language. The question is, which places are the ones that will have the biggest impact? One is administrative, where a large language model can interface in a sales CRM and update it using a voice interface. This will save salespeople a lot of time and make sales managers happy that they can get their people to update the CRM. Crafting content to sales prospects is another area where language models can be useful, particularly in finding language patterns and distributions that work best. Personality analysis is also essential, where a large language model can interpret language and see where people are, which is critical in the sales process. The short answer is that wherever language is used in the sales process, particularly in areas where salespeople have trouble, language models can help patch those areas faster and improve their baseline skills. There’s a tremendous benefit to be had in using these models, and sales teams can use their data to guide the use of these models and even customize them to their specific sales process.

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    In today’s episode, Manuel asks, hey Christopher, how do you think sales roles will be affected by GPT? Models, especially after they are trained on lead generation and sales data? This is a good question.

    This is a on the surface an easy question to answer.

    Any place you use language, a large language model is going to have some usefulness any place in the sales process or the sales role that use language.

    So where do you use language in sales? Pretty much everywhere, right? There’s emails, there’s pitches, there’s pitch decks, there’s sales collateral, the sales enablement tools, there’s putting notes in your CRM, there’s speaking the people on the phone, any place that use language is a place where a large language model can have some impact.

    Now the question is, which places are the ones that you’re gonna get the biggest bang for your buck.

    And there’s really a few different spots.

    One is administrative.

    I’m guilty of this.

    I don’t like updating the sales CRM, my I, I do it because I have to.

    But when I worked in sales, it was my least favorite part of the job administratively just boring to just go in and click on stuff, having a large language model interface in a sales CRM and just be able to say, hey, update this account, update TrustInsights.ai AI said the deal size to $50,000.

    Next, check in will be two weeks from now.

    They’re not ready to buy yet.

    And then having the model interpret that and then update the CRM.

    Huge, that’d be huge.

    Some companies, Salesforce and Hubspot, they’re already doing integrations similar to that now they’re all very in alpha, right? They’re not ready for primetime yet, but they’re going that way.

    Just that alone, is would be enough to to dramatically change the role of sales, tying it to a voice interface.

    That would be a game changer, that would be a substantial competitive advantage for the to the first CRM that can do that.

    Because if you’re gonna open up a memo on your phone and say, Oh, hey, I just met with Bob at Trust Insights.

    And, yeah, it looks like they’re going to do they want to do something, but probably not till next quarter, and then have the model interpret that and update the CRM, that salesperson, you know, that could be driving from from appointment to appointment, they could be on the phone, they could be working from home, but boy, they could save a lot of time, a lot of time, by having natural language interfaces to their software, and sales managers would be like, this is fantastic, I can actually get my people to update the CRM now.

    Right.

    So that’s a big one.

    The crafting of content to sales prospects, that’s again, a pretty easy one, particularly if there are there are language patterns and distributions that you understand, work and don’t work, right.

    One of the things that people have tried for years and relatively little success, is to understand if certain language works better in in the sales process than others, right, we have a star salesperson is does the language they use matter? And could other people use that language and get some success out of it.

    And up until now, the tools didn’t really exist for you to be able to do that kind of large scale analysis, but now they do.

    And so you might be able to come up with a writing style that resonates with people.

    One thing that I think it’d be particularly interesting to see is people creating language model interfaces that can interpret someone else’s writing style and help you write similar to them, because we all love hearing ourselves, right? I mean, yes, there are exceptions.

    But generally speaking, we feel more comfortable with people who sound like us, right? Who think like us, that’s just human nature.

    And so if a tool can take an email from a one kind of personality and transmute it to another personality type, it might be better received, particularly in early communications.

    That might be a way to approach it.

    You could also do the personality analysis directly on the prospect as you get communications from them, feed it to a large language model and say, Hey, analyze this person’s personality.

    Tell me about their extraversion.

    Tell me about their openness, and so on and so forth.

    And that personality analysis might be useful to you as a salesperson to say, Okay, here’s how maybe I want to approach this person.

    Maybe I don’t want to go in all guns blazing, say, hey, if I got a deal for you, when that person from personality perspective, might not resonate with that, you might solve something more tentative, like so tell me what’s going on.

    What are what are the things that are frustrating you right now, right? There are some people who resonate with that first pitch.

    There are some people who will resonate with that second pitch other people like You don’t my therapists just sell me the things I can get on with my day.

    So having large language models that can interpret language and see where people are, is going to be critical.

    All of this stuff is based on language.

    It’s on how we use language.

    So the short answer to Manuel’s question really is wherever it is used language in the sales process, particularly if there are spots that you personally have trouble, that you’re not as strong in the sales process.

    That’s where language models will help.

    And I think it will help salespeople who are deficient in some areas, patch those areas faster, and get up to speed faster, so that they’re their baseline skills are improved.

    And I think that’s there’s a tremendous benefit to be had there.

    But yeah, the the data that sales teams have, can be used to really guide the use of these models, and even customize them, you can customize them to your specific sales process, maybe even your personal selling method.

    So something to keep an eye on as as time goes on.

    Thanks for the question.

    Talk to you next time.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Detection of AI Content?

    You Ask, I Answer: Detection of AI Content?

    Xiaoli asks, “How can people determine whether some content is created by AI or human?”

    In this video, I answer a question from a viewer who wants to know how to determine whether content has been created by AI or by a human. While there are tools available online that can detect language patterns of generic models, their quality is hit or miss, and they are tuned for the OpenAI family of models. With the proliferation of different models and variations, it will become more difficult to detect AI-generated content. Even if you use these tools, the result is not going to be reliable because of the wide range of statistical distributions. In some cases, it depends on the process, where AI is involved in the content creation process but not in the final step, which is done by a human. The best way to know if content was created by a machine or a human is to ask. Having policies in place in your company about the use of AI in content creation is also essential. As AI models continue to evolve, the use of detection algorithms will become less and less useful. Thank you for watching, and if you found this video helpful, please hit that subscribe button.

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    In today’s episode shall Lee asks how can people determine whether some content is created by AI or human? So this is a very popular question understandably so.

    And there are some tools out there that can detect some of the language patterns have generic models.

    So, for example, if you were to type into, you know, AI content detector into Google, you’ll get a whole bunch of different web services that will say like we can detect AI content and plagiarism, the all this that and other stuff.

    And these tools do that to a, a greater or lesser degree of success.

    The reason they can do that is because there are predictable statistical distributions in the way that large language models like the GPT family that ChatGPT uses, that are detectable that are, you can find in the generic models.

    So the generic model means someone using just off the shelf ChatGPT with no customizations, no plugins, no anything, it’s just the stock base model.

    And the prompt they’re putting it is so generic, that the model is essentially writing doing most of the heavy lifting.

    It’s funny, these tools, these detection tools, they are iffy in their quality.

    I took a blog post that Katie and I had written for the Trust Insights newsletter and I, I fed it in and there are sections that were clearly marked, this section has been generated by AI and this section is not.

    And one of the tools missed everything, completely missed it.

    One of the tools marked everything as AI, even the parts that we know were human written.

    And then two of the tools kinda halfway winged it right some what are the tools? More or less got it? Okay.

    But none of them got it right.

    None of them work.

    Got it perfectly right.

    Nolan said, Yep, this is the AI part.

    This is the non AI part.

    And that’s a problem.

    Right? So these tools do exist.

    Their quality right now is hit or miss.

    And here’s the part that’s, that’s tricky.

    They are tuned for the OpenAI family of models, so GPC 3.5 GPT-4.

    With the release of Facebook’s llama large language models set into open source and the proliferation of dozens if not hundreds of variations.

    These tools can’t do that anymore.

    Maybe schools are incapable of detecting language created by different models have different model weights, different parameters, essentially all the different settings that these other tools use that will make their texts have statistically significant distributions but different distributions than OpenAI.

    And so there really isn’t a way to ironclad detect the use of AI.

    The other way that these tools will fall down is depends on the process.

    So if you wrote an outline as your prompt, and you had ChatGPT Write out the post, there’s a decent chance that at least some of these tools would correctly identify it.

    If you did it in reverse, you said OpenAI, you write the outline because I can’t think of what to write.

    And once I have my prompts as a writer, I’ll do the writing.

    These tools will not detect that usage of AI even though AI was involved in the content creation process.

    The final step was done by human and those statistical distributions will not exist nearly as much or as strongly as a machine generated version.

    So I would say the only surefire way to know whether content was created by machine or human is to ask if it’s if it’s content that you care about.

    And if it’s your content, hopefully, you would know.

    But if it’s content created by your company, having policies in place as to the situations in which AI is permissible to use or not permissible to use is, is critically important because these models will continue to evolve, right? Just the open source models alone are evolving so fast and getting such specific capabilities that the plagiarism detector does not plagiarism, the AI content generation detection algorithms are going to get less and less useful.

    And here’s why.

    If you take an open source model, and you tune it towards a very specific task, like just writing blog posts or just writing emails, what’s going to happen is those tools will have very different language distributions.

    And so something looking for the generic model is not going to see that it will just miss it.

    And, again, the fact that we see see so much innovation happening on the open source side means you’re gonna have dozens, if not hundreds of models to try and keep up with.

    And you’re gonna as if you were marketing, you know, AI content detection software, you’re gonna have a real hard time doing that.

    So that’s the answer.

    The answer is there are tools, they’re unreliable, and they will continue to get to be unreliable, they’ll actually get less reliable over time as models proliferate.

    The Good question though, thanks for asking.

    Talk to you next time.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Thoughts on Twitter?

    You Ask, I Answer: Thoughts on Twitter?

    Debbie asks, “This is outside the realm of analytics, but would love to know your thoughts about Twitter? It’s been a valuable resource to keep up with journalists, source requests, etc., but now am feeling wary about it. Your thoughts? Recommendations on alternative platforms?”

    In this video, I discuss the challenges of Twitter’s current management and how it is becoming less reliable, stable, and useful. Twitter has made some decisions that have fundamentally changed the character of the network. There are documented evidence and vulnerabilities that bad actors can take advantage of while the community tries to patch them. I highlight two issues: Twitter released its source code for its recommendation engine, and Russian hostile actors are actively trying to check in source code into Twitter’s recommendation algorithm to treat anything that’s Ukrainian as propaganda. Twitter is in an interesting place, and I recommend being cautious about it. However, there are plenty of other social networks, such as LinkedIn, Discord, and private social platforms that you can join or create if the community doesn’t exist. These private social platforms can be a real hub and resource center to your industry, and if you do so, it confers enormous benefits to your business or brand.

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    In today’s episode, Debbie asks, this is outside the realm of analytics.

    But we’d love to know your thoughts about Twitter.

    It’s been a valuable resource to keep up with journalist source requests instead of but now feeling very wary about it your thoughts recommendations on alternative platforms? Oh, where should we begin on Twitter.

    Twitter is becoming less and less reliable, less and less stable and less and less useful as its current management makes increasingly less thoughtful decisions.

    That’s the way I would put it, were decisions that fundamentally changed the character of the network.

    And I’ll highlight two things that I think are substantially problematic.

    There’s a bunch of things that are problematic.

    But they’re these two things.

    There’s documented evidence that these are problematic.

    And these are emblematic of the direction Twitter’s going that is, from my point of view, the wrong direction.

    Point number one, Twitter released its source code on March 31.

    On GitHub, for its recommendation engine.

    And in general, open source, it’s a good thing for open source software to exist, it is generally a way to create high quality software, it’s generally a way to reduce vulnerabilities.

    However, it’s a long process to get there, right Linux, the operating system was not created overnight.

    Apache the Apache web server package was not created overnight, it took years for these packages to evolve, to close up vulnerabilities and to become the enterprise software they are today.

    But in that time, there were a lot of challenges those software packages faced.

    Twitter is in the same sort of boat right now where it has opened its source code.

    But in doing so is opened up a number of vulnerabilities that bad actors can take advantage of while the community tries to patch them if they can be patched.

    Bitdefender, the security company identified and even filed a critical vulnerability for Twitter’s recommendation engine as a whole, to say that the recommendation engine now the code is available, makes it trivial for a hostile actor to set up automated ways to essentially game the system to report accounts to get them kicked off the platform.

    And it’s fully expected that hostile actors will be doing so in the near future.

    And I forget what CVE number is we can look it up in the CVE database.

    And you can go to bit defenders website to read the documentation of this.

    And I wholeheartedly agree this is a pretty big problem that the community has not solved yet.

    That vulnerability means that bad actors can take advantage of it and you know, silence critics, right.

    And we’re not talking about massive, huge projects.

    Thanks to tools like autonomous AI, you can have it spin up a couple of 1000 Twitter dummy Twitter accounts and bought somebody to death.

    Figuratively, their account not not literally in relatively short order.

    And you don’t need much more than a gaming laptop to do that.

    We’re not talking about cloak and dagger, you know, huge rooms full of servers and stuff.

    And the matrix like thing as it’s you can a kid with a laptop can do it.

    And until the source code is closed up, that becomes a problem.

    That’s That’s one example where Twitter that decision to open the source code in the long term is a good decision in the short term, particularly around things like elections, not so good.

    Number two, if you look at the poll requests within the GitHub repository, for those who are unfamiliar, if you want to be able to participate in an open source project, you check out a portion of the code with what’s called a pull request.

    You make edits to it, and you submit it back to the company.

    And then somebody on that project, or consortium people approve or reject your proposed changes.

    You can look right in the pull requests right on GitHub and see that hostile actors, Russian hostile actors are actively trying repeatedly to check in source code into Twitter’s recommendation algorithm that treats anything that’s Ukrainian as propaganda flags is propaganda tries to get rid of it.

    So you have Russian about spies.

    They’re just, I guess, hackers, for lack of better term, trying to intentionally corrupt Twitter source code for how it makes recommendations.

    And this is at a decent scale.

    Now, granted, a lot of the community is finding these things and saying no, but it doesn’t take a whole lot of imagination to look at it and go, Well, it seems like that’s the kind of thing where at some point someone’s going to get through, right? Yeah.

    Not everyone has succeeded, only one person has to succeed, to fundamentally change that recommendation algorithm in, in a way that is harmful to society at large.

    Right.

    We generally agree most people who are not Russian or paid by Russians generally agree that Russia invading Ukraine is an unlawful act, right? It’s illegal.

    It’s against the entire international community.

    And it was just a bad thing.

    Right? So Russia is attempting to control a social network, a public social network by corrupting the algorithm, also a bad thing.

    And so I think it is right to be wary about Twitter, because what’s happening in these documented battles for how the source code works, is problematic, at least in the short term, at least in the next couple of years.

    Over time, yeah, the community if source code remains open, the community may be able to close up some of these holes and improve the government governance.

    But for right now, it’s not great.

    It’s not great.

    That combined with the whole blue checkmark, gold checkmark business, where businesses are being told to have a gold checkmark that is, verifies you, as an organization need to pay $1,000 a month.

    I don’t see a whole lot of companies going yeah, let’s do that.

    Particularly when the previous process was had more background checking, and not as much just forking over money.

    Twitter’s in an interesting place.

    We don’t know what’s going to happen with it.

    We don’t know whether the current management is high as a kite and just making shit up and hoping something will stick or if there is an actual plan.

    And from an outsider’s perspective, it doesn’t look like there’s a whole lot of a coherent plan other than trying to stop losing money.

    But in the process of doing so Digiday had a piece recently, it was in the most recent newsletter talking about how advertisers have pulled back and now publishers are pulling back saying yeah, we don’t really want to be here, because there’s the verification system, we’re not going to pay you 1000 bucks a month to tell people that our articles legit, we’re just gonna go over to Instagram.

    In terms of where to go elsewhere, there’s plenty of other social networks.

    I dislike the Facebook family of companies, because Facebook has is ethically challenged as well.

    But they do exist.

    LinkedIn, I think LinkedIn is the last sane social network that’s being run by run by grownups.

    And so I think, particularly for credible sources, it’s a good place to spend a lot of time I spend a lot of time and slack and Discord in different communities based on my interests.

    And yeah, you still have to do critical thinking there, you still have to evaluate what people share.

    And, you know, some people are dummies, and some people are not.

    But I think those are places where if you’re looking at a specific topic, like you know, B2B marketing, or influencers or SAS software, or, you know, cloud computing, there’s probably a private social media community that has a really good fit for that, that you can join, and eventually become influential, perhaps, but certainly find good information that doesn’t have all the problems of a public social network, you know, so I would say, if I was if I was in your shoes, and you’re looking for resources to connect with, start looking at some of the private social platforms like Discord, find a Discord server in your area of focus.

    And if there isn’t one, there is an opportunity for you to create it and be the source of record be the hub for your industry, particularly for folks who are in your industry who are under 35.

    Because Discord attracts that crowd quite a bit and be a real hub, a resource center to your industry, you will find that it confers enormous benefits if you do so to your company, your business, your brand, etc, whether you’re a publisher, marketer, whatever, if the the community doesn’t exist, create it.

    So really good question.

    I am not optimistic on Twitter in the short term, I am cautiously optimistic on the long term, like a 10 year horizon if it survives, its current growing pains, but the short term Yeah, I’m not putting a whole lot of credence to things I find out there.

    Thanks for asking.

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