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FaceTime with the Content Guy:  AI Rules

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The Information recently reported that Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke recently informed his employees that there were two new AI-related criteria for how they do their jobs.  Some of this struck me as reflective of a new reality.  But there was another reality about how the new standards were communicated that really bothers me.

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