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quote of the week
People don’t evaluate your reasoning. They evaluate you.
Siri
Siri might finally be usable…
Source: The Verge
the era of frustration will soon be over.
In an era of multiple AI apps on our phones, Siri usage for AI related tasks has been minimal. All this is about to change. Apple is soon going to give us an option to use either ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude as the brains behind your voice command to Siri.
I will watch this space for you and update when the rollout is more complete. Thoughts? Reply to this email or write to me at [email protected]
AI
Is your brand on AI? You can now find out!
There are going to be a lot of tools in this space but one that I found very useful was this website called Am I On AI (amionai.com).
Currently free, you can input your website and email address and it will give you a nice report on how good is your brand’s AI presence. That is, how often do AI Agents cite your website or brand name as a source.
The report consists of the following sections:
Overall AI Visibility Score
Prompts where you are ranked well and where you’re not ranked well.
Websites where your brand is cited the most e.g. reddit.
Top Competitors for you when it comes to AI citations.
Some simple action items
Take this with a pinch of salt (it’s US-only for now), but it could be a good starting point if you want AI to recommend your brand or product as a solution to users’ problems.
emojis
Some emojis have double meanings…
Source: Wordsmarts
Did you know that the upside down smile emoji (🙃) actually stands for sarcasm and dark humor, and not just a variation for you to use for smiling?
Did you also know that you are very old if you are still using the laughing crying emoji (😂) as a replacement for LOL. GenZ now uses this one to declare something clearly unfunny. They use the skull (💀) if they think something is worth LOLing. Another safe alternative to use with GenZ is 😭.
Get a whole list of these emojis with different meanings here.
best of the internet this week
You can now re-order your photos and videos in an Instagram Carousel after posting (I know you are surprised that this feature didn’t exist so far!)
YouTube is building infrastructure for the full creator-brand partnership life cycle.
Fruit Love Island, an AI-generated parody of Love Island, became the strangest hit of the year, until it was deleted.
100 travel hotspots made famous by film and TV
12 tons of KitKat bars stolen in chocolaty heist in Europe
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