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2026-07-30 12:55 UTC
This works so well that Google has announced that it is their plan for making a profit off of AI, after losing hundreds of billions of dollars on chatbots:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/21/cod-marxism/#wannamaker-slain
In the before times, marketers and demographers had to dream up demographic categories based on limited data and run focus groups to figure out how to maximize revenue from each market segment.
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-07-30 12:55
Now an AI can segment the data to any degree you choose, and continuously, automatically experiment on each segment to find their weak spots. It's "theory-free." You don't have to discover *why* a group is willing to pay more under a given set of circumstances, you merely have to observe and weaponize this fact. 6/