Stephen J. Barr
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AI-First AWS cost optimization with @cloudfix_saves! Host of AWS Made Easy livestream. Husband, father, builder, 3d printing enthusiast!
Seattle, WA, USA
Joined March 2007
3 months of Free @cloudfix_saves unlimited Finder/Fixers!? Is this too good to be true? In this video, @RahulDevFactory and I discuss frequently asked questions about our new offer. We challenge you to see how much you can save! This video is a companion to our recent FAQ blog
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It's not like the people who buy these don't eat eggs. And waiting in the Costco return line - this couldn't possibly be time-efficient for anybody. Just...eat them? Why is this bothering me so much?!?
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It takes some real chutzpah to buy 18 eggs, return 17 perfectly good ones and a single cracked hardboiled egg and say "You need to take these back (and these out because) because I didn't read the giant label on the box."
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I was at Costco and bought some hardboiled eggs. They come in a carton clearly labelled 'hard-boiled eggs.' The cashier told me "Make sure these are what you want. A lot of people return these." Just when I thought people couldn't get more shameless...
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Forget Google. 80% of shoppers now get answers without clicking a link. If AI can’t find you, you don’t exist. Here are the exact steps and mega prompts I used to get my business mentioned by AI: 🧵👇
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What's your experience been? Have you noticed AI tools being unclear about when they're generating vs. finding content? 9/10
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There are efforts to mandate watermarks on AI generated images, but these type of approaches have historically not been super effective. 8/10
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It's not malicious - Perplexity was trying to be helpful. But, 'good intentions' only count for so much. As a society, we have been dealing with fake images for a long time. From the Loch Ness monster to blurry Bigfoot pictures (as the late Mitch Hedberg said, maybe Bigfoot 'is'
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For someone casually using these tools, how would they know the difference? 6/10
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This got me thinking about AI transparency. We're at this weird inflection point where AI can create incredibly realistic content, but the boundaries between "found" and "generated" are getting blurry. 5/10
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No disclaimer. No "I'm creating this image." Just presented a generated image as if it were real. 4/10
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Instead of saying "I can't find any" or "Here are some search results," it just... generated one. 3/10
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So I asked Perplexity: "Are there any pictures of the FedEx hub in Indianapolis?" 2/10
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