Don't Do AI Just to Say You're Doing AI
18 May 2026 · 0 min

0:17
Don't adopt AI just to look innovative. A New Yorker cartoon shows a beggar's plea turned into spareadime.com, a profitable gimmick. The point: use AI as a tool, not a marketing stunt.

Don't adopt AI just to look innovative. A New Yorker cartoon shows a beggar's plea turned into spareadime.com, a profitable gimmick. The point: use AI as a tool, not a marketing stunt.
Let's not do AI for the sake of AI. There was that old New Yorker cartoon where there was like the guy in the street that says, spare a dime? And the guy down the street that says, spareadime.com? And he had like overflowing, you know, basket of change.