AI versus Marshy #7: women doing AI for good, all of the texts, + upcoming webinar

Hey there,

Let’s go again for another round of AI versus Marshy.

And a very warm welcome to our new readers 👋

This week we look at:

• 🚪 Is the door closing on open content?
• ⚒️ Tool of the week: Texts.com - all your messages in one inbox
• 🙏🏻 Some awesome women working with AI for Good

I’m also presenting a webinar next Thursday called “How to Multiply Your Marketing Output with AI Tools” - find the details at the bottom.

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Thanks,

-Marshy

Is the web before this the good old days?

I remember starting an OpenDiary. I’d pour all my teen angst into its online pages. It was cringe central but there was a little community around it, and that’s how my content writing journey started.

The web was a weird and wonderful place where you could stumble upon anything.

Mine were IRC chat rooms, dance music forums, and I even found an erotic hypnotist in New York (for another time).

Tanay’s Substack writes about AI and the decline of the open web.

With all this content getting vacuumed up by AI and then getting remixed and generated, the incentives for “putting it out there” are falling away.

The newsletter does a great job of summarising four key trends: mobile and login walls, moving from forums to “private” communities, more walled gardens, and content becoming less and less valuable because it’s getting generated.

Have you noticed anything ?

I certainly have. The best online conversations I have are in private Slack and WhatsApp channels.

It could have been so good.

As I’ve said in the past, it’s not really the present that we have to be concerned about or the next 1-3 years.

Casting further forward I wonder what happens to creativity that’s far more valuable than online words - for example Meta has just announced AudioCraft - a generative AI for music. Will we all be listening to individualised AI jamz and where does it end?

Tool of the week: Texts.com ✉️

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This isn’t the first time I’ve seen a tool that’s tried to combine all of your inboxes, but this is easily the best try yet. I beta tested the tool and while I wouldn’t say it’s 100% there yet - it’s pretty close.

It lets you add your SMS, WhatsApp, Messenger, LinkedIn, and ChatGPT (random) into the one dashboard on your computer.

I was surprised by how useful it was for focus - I could open up one window reply/bosh out what I need to, and close it. The LinkedIn DMs was surprisingly useful too - I didn’t realise how much I was in there and how much easier it was to coordinate through the tool.

All in one box.

The most frustrating part for me was the Messenger experience - I had to keep “reconnecting” it because it thought the software was dodgy.

Worth a look and I’m sure it will improve.

Two kickarse women that are playing in the AI for good space

My last role tried to start a tech for good initiative within a scale up. Ultimately it didn’t work. But I absolutely love the space - especially for those focused on closing the opportunity gap between the haves and the have nots.

All of those good things.

​Kaz has launched Starling and is focused on using AI tools to help the For purpose sector. Definitely worth a follow.

I also met Sophina on Lunchclub recently and she demo’d a consulting tool that helps nonprofits identify new assets to create to help fund their mission. She’s not quite at launch stage yet but it looked very promising.

Is there anyone else doing good things?

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And that’s a wrap for this week.

Here’s the link to the event next Thursday 10th August - it’s on at 12-12.30pm AEST time - register here and I’ll see you there!

It’s a me - Marshy!

We’ve got this 💪

-Marshy

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