Google's AI Search & Improving Your Thumbnails

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An early happy National Pizza Day this Thursday. Just don’t put any pineapple on it.

🪶 Google is rolling out its own AI features in search called Bard. From the screen mockups, it looks like a more in-depth version of the snippets we already see in search. This will probably continue a trend we’ve seen with search - people get the answer they’re looking for and don’t need to click on a link.

🙅‍♀️ Rising group of TikTok ‘de-influencers’ are criticizing viral products and promoting thoughtful shopping - aka less consumerism.

🤳 Stock photography site Shutterstock is releasing a generative AI tool (type a prompt, get an image). Smart move on their part - disrupt themselves with AI tools to make stock photos before someone else does.

🤖 Using AI tools doesn’t have to be a binary choice of either using it for everything or don’t use it at all. This article from Animalz explores different balances in mixing AI tools into a human workflow.

🧰 Study from Ross Simmonds on which type of free resources gets the most links. Overwhelming answer: Tools.

🐥 TinyMentions: Track a topic on Twitter and get recommendations and insights on tweets and users around that topic.

💬 MacWhisper: OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has a feature called Whisper that uses its language model to transcribe audio and video. The only thing is you had to be technical to program access to it. MacWhisper is a user-friendly app that will transcribe with a simple drag and drop - for free.

🎶 Soundraw: Use AI to generate music with specific styles, durations, and tempos.

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3️⃣ Pique curiosity

I failed.
Mark Rober is successful. How did he fail?

4️⃣ Highlight a pain

Your Video is Boring
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