Big Tobacco May Be Influencing AI-Generated Content Online

You're not bad at AI. You're just being fed bad information about it. That tool your team stopped using three months ago? That wasn't your fault. The information that led you to buy it was shaped by

You're not bad at AI. You're just being fed bad information about it.

That tool your team stopped using three months ago? That wasn't your fault. The information that led you to buy it was shaped by people with something to sell.

Here's what most business owners don't know: a new report reveals that large commercial interests — including Big Tobacco — may be actively influencing what AI tools "know" and recommend. The AI giving you business advice has been trained on data. Someone decided what data that was.

This matters to you practically. When an AI tool tells you it's the right solution for your business, it may be reflecting marketing-shaped datasets, not objective truth. The hype you've been swimming in has an origin. It's not random.

This doesn't mean AI is useless. It means your evaluation process needs one extra step.

Before your next AI purchase, ask: "Who trained this tool, and on what?" A vendor who can't answer that clearly is a vendor worth walking away from. That single question has saved my clients thousands.

What's the worst AI advice you were given before you knew better — and what did it cost you?

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