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Annoyance of sales/marketing tactics aside, the problem is when you are the plug-in. They can screw you at any moment, raise the price, change the interface every month, kick you out of the App Store, or whatever. You have little to no leverage.
You have real value when people want to plug into you.
Almost every question like this can be answered with the word "engagement" It's the hot topic of the moment, people are searching it. Businesses market to what people are searching. Is it lying? Sure, I could be convinced. Is it illegal? Nah. Will people do it no matter what we think about it? Forever. I'd focus on your own marketing rather than worrying about whether other people are lying. You don't need to call yo…
If you trust a vendor's description of their product you're in for a world of hurt.
AI is just a marketing term. Doesn't actually have a proper definitiom.
That said, successful marketing terms can lose a lot of their meaning and become very broad categories if a lot of companies/products adjacent to it are able to squeeze value out of the association.
"My product is NOT an AI company. It’s a dev tool for app developers." and people will definitely NOT be interested. The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
So should I lie and say it’s an AI company? Just trying to understand this trend.