AI companies argue that their “systems make fair use of copyrighted content by transforming it into something new.”
In breaking down that statement, you’ll find a collection of persuasion techniques that propaganda researchers have been cataloging for nearly a century.
In this post, we’ll talk about how the language surrounding AI is being used to short-circuit the questions you should
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Should You Use an AI Website Builder for Your Business? Read This First.
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Let’s be honest about what’s driving this question. You’ve seen the demos. Someone describes a website in a sentence, and thirty seconds later there’s a homepage with a hero image, a nav bar, and a call to action. It looks real. It looks finished. And it costs a fraction of
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So, should you let an AI tool build your website?
Short answer: maybe
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Below is a quick 5–10 minute mini-guide and some questions people you can ask yourself before jumping on the AI website bandwagon. Our full discussion on this topic is here if
Why “No Web Maintenance Needed” Is Algorithm Candy
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Now let’s walk through how it actually works.
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