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Itโ€™s as if MarketingGPT is already in playโ€ฆ pooping on the web

By: cogdog

In Chapter 32 of the โ€œYou Cannot Make this**** Up Book of Internet Stupidityโ€ I submit for your disapproval perhaps evidence that GPT AI is in use already for marketing pimple brains.

It was more than 10 years ago I began some relentless debunking of the oft-cited 60000 times faster assertion โ€” โ€œResearchers at 3M have shown that humans process images 60,000 times faster than text.โ€ Even when cited, the source turns out to be a PDF of 3M promotional brochure. I spoke with 3M employees, other visualization experts doing similar research at the time claimed, and there is bubkaโ€™s for evidence. With the help of an ace research librarian, I traced it back to a computer magazine opinion columns from 1982 where the trail went cold.

If you ever see this claim question it severely. I am 100% sure it is not supported by any evidence.

I do get sporadic comments and rackpack pings from people who have questioned it, turned to the Google, and found my stuff (insert pat on the back). I feel I have contributed a tiny drop of sanity in demystifying of internet BS.

Until today.

I get a trackpack ping from a post from some consultants I will not give any more google juce by naming, but peek for yourself at Video is Still King!

The human brain processes visuals 60,000 times faster than text (source:ย 3M Corporation). (VISUAL) Video not only helps you remember, but it helps youย connect. People connect to the company, connect to your brand, and tend to trust your brand more when they see your video.

Some Consultants from Mars

Look, they cite 3M Corporation as a source of evidence of the claimโ€ฆ. with a link

The link supporting my claim goes to my blog!

They have asserted a false claim by backing up as a source one of,my blog posts that debunks it!

I could not make this up. I would certainly line up to here these consultants, you should too! I just hope my blog does not alert them with a ping, it would be a shame to lose this specimen of poop on the web.

And I am only able to conjecture that ChatGPT is going to be the marketers dream for spitting out crap copy, not to mention authoring more realistic sounding phishing email attempts.

Thank you internet for putting the turd cherry atop another one of those days.


Featured Image: One of my own, a sort of internet reality distortion modulatorโ€ฆ

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