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EMPIRE OF AI: Welcome to the Real World

AI and Commerce: There is no spoon

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Vinny O Brien
Jul 14, 2025
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“Welcome to the real world.”
— Morpheus, The Matrix

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Let’s get this out of the way up front: I’m a skeptic. A well-meaning, slightly-exhausted, time-crunched, commerce-loving skeptic who’s been around long enough to remember when “personalization” meant someone spelling your name right on a marketing email.Does the fact that we still get this wrong tell u…

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