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Hello everyone. I'm currently doing a survey on AI involvement in content creation and whether AI-assisted content is legitimate or authentic. It's for my master's final project. I need 100 participants. The age range is 18 ~ 40. I collected data the first time, but I did so without an approved checklist, so the result had to be scraped, for I would have faced disciplinary actions. Here is the link: https://s.surveyplanet.com/9abkx8vx I'm open should you have any questions. sub...

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Hi HN, I am building https://kifly.ai/ , to make ecommerce stores discoverable and purchasable by AI agents. Enabling payments using traditional methods and stablecoins for physical goods. With Kifly a seller can easily sync their inventory and we create a vectorized database of their products/goods and make it visible through MCP. Sellers get: - A sales agent that lives on their existing site (Shopify, WooCommerce etc.). It helps customers find and purchase products seamlessly using natural l...

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A dentist I work under recently started using an AI tool to help draft patient communication: preappointment instructions, followup texts, that kind of thing. Nothing clinical, just the soft admin layer around visits. From a marketing angle it actually works pretty well. The copy is cleaner than what we were sending before. But something about it sits a little odd. Dental care is one of those contexts where patients are already anxious, and the language you use to reach them matters in ways th...

Hi everyone, I work for a motorsports company where we run physics simulations for race cars. Our expertise is in physics not AI but we know the power of AI. Our platform is quite complex in terms of physics so we would love an agent that can query our docs, query some vehicle dynamics textbooks, run simulations (pretty simple tool through our AI) and then analyse the results. The result files can be largeish so may need some python processing and access again to the vehicle dynamics textbooks...

A space startup got quoted $75–100 million by a traditional prime contractor to build its first satellite. They built it — launch included — for $2 million. The story behind the number is more interesting than the number itself. They ran the math wrong twice — first landing on a $50/kg break-even, then correcting to $500/kg once they pressure-tested it against reality — before the real pivot happened. Wrong estimate first, cheap correction after, in public, under a deadline they'd al...

Taken from the Y combinator podcast with Bryant Chou on his new startup Ploy https://www.ycombinator.com/library/Rj-the-age-of-the-40-year-old-solo-founder-is-here I believe this is definitely one of those things that AI was intended for, this brought me back some nostalgia and it's really amazing being able to see these old school websites be redesigned back to life

What's one thing ChatGPT gets wrong so often that you've stopped trusting it?

I'm trying to upload a file / book to translate to my language, but for some reason, chatgpt won't let me upload it Is it because it's too big for the app? It's a 105 pages an accounting book from a course I'm taking from here http://www.tonybell.com I have a learning disability where rather than being able to learn in my mother tongue, I learn through English but am trying to change that with AI Can someone help me? If this is the wrong subreddit, then please direct me to the corr...