Greg Swan
@gregswan.bsky.social
Always turning up the 🎶 Doing cool things at @thecaveproject.bsky.social 🤖
Bad AI ideas are slipping into real campaigns. Petitions. Fake protests. Hashtag slop.
I wrote about how to spot the tells and keep the work human.
New Social Signals is live.
gregswan.substack.com/p/bad-ai-ide...
I wrote about how to spot the tells and keep the work human.
New Social Signals is live.
gregswan.substack.com/p/bad-ai-ide...
November 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Bad AI ideas are slipping into real campaigns. Petitions. Fake protests. Hashtag slop.
I wrote about how to spot the tells and keep the work human.
New Social Signals is live.
gregswan.substack.com/p/bad-ai-ide...
I wrote about how to spot the tells and keep the work human.
New Social Signals is live.
gregswan.substack.com/p/bad-ai-ide...
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If “6-7” confuses you, here’s a thorough explainer on our long history of linguistic memes. Nice effort @gregswan.bsky.social
gregswan.substack.com/p/eat-my-sho...
gregswan.substack.com/p/eat-my-sho...
Eat My Shorts! What can we learn from the viral sayings of our childhood to understand 6-7?
Down, down, baby. Down by the rollercoaster. Sweet sweet baby, I'll never let you go. Shimmy shimmy coco pop. Shimmy shimmy pow. Shimmy shimmy coco pop. Shimmy shimmy pow!
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November 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
If “6-7” confuses you, here’s a thorough explainer on our long history of linguistic memes. Nice effort @gregswan.bsky.social
gregswan.substack.com/p/eat-my-sho...
gregswan.substack.com/p/eat-my-sho...
Love spending the day at #AppliedAIConf25 with the folks actually building the future, not just talking about it.
November 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Love spending the day at #AppliedAIConf25 with the folks actually building the future, not just talking about it.
It’s been a hard week for my mayorships.
September 27, 2025 at 11:39 PM
It’s been a hard week for my mayorships.
It just occurred me if the #Vikings (re)sign Adam Thielen that means I have to eat this box of Thielen’s First Down Flakes from the Vikings wall in the basement.
Those are the rules, right?
Those are the rules, right?
August 26, 2025 at 12:22 AM
It just occurred me if the #Vikings (re)sign Adam Thielen that means I have to eat this box of Thielen’s First Down Flakes from the Vikings wall in the basement.
Those are the rules, right?
Those are the rules, right?
I pulled back out my fidget spinner during zoom meetings where I need to pay attention and this thing rocks, you guys. Could really catch on.
August 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I pulled back out my fidget spinner during zoom meetings where I need to pay attention and this thing rocks, you guys. Could really catch on.
My kids call it the “drive thru pizza place” and LOVE IT
A pizza reporter's pilgrimage to the flavors and batshit insane marketing of his youth.
A Wisconsinite Reviews MN's Only Location of Beloved WI Chain Rocky Rococo - Racket
A pizza reporter's pilgrimage to the flavors and batshit insane marketing of his youth.
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August 20, 2025 at 9:25 AM
My kids call it the “drive thru pizza place” and LOVE IT
There are 355,885 days until January 1, 3000.
August 15, 2025 at 12:19 AM
There are 355,885 days until January 1, 3000.
Happy GPT5 Launch Day! 🔥
August 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Happy GPT5 Launch Day! 🔥
HELLO Digital Summit! 🔥 @digitalsummits.bsky.social
On stage today:
I'm leading a fireside chat with @vikings.social CMO Martin Nance at 3:15 pm
On stage tomorrow:
Presenting a keynote on Employee Generated Content at 1 pm
On stage today:
I'm leading a fireside chat with @vikings.social CMO Martin Nance at 3:15 pm
On stage tomorrow:
Presenting a keynote on Employee Generated Content at 1 pm
August 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
HELLO Digital Summit! 🔥 @digitalsummits.bsky.social
On stage today:
I'm leading a fireside chat with @vikings.social CMO Martin Nance at 3:15 pm
On stage tomorrow:
Presenting a keynote on Employee Generated Content at 1 pm
On stage today:
I'm leading a fireside chat with @vikings.social CMO Martin Nance at 3:15 pm
On stage tomorrow:
Presenting a keynote on Employee Generated Content at 1 pm
Someday it will be seen as a sign of affluence to pay a human to cut your hair.
August 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Someday it will be seen as a sign of affluence to pay a human to cut your hair.
AI gonna destroy website and content discovery to the point where StumbleUpon gets a righteous reboot. I'm cheering for it.
July 30, 2025 at 1:35 PM
AI gonna destroy website and content discovery to the point where StumbleUpon gets a righteous reboot. I'm cheering for it.
Wow! Potentially the first documented case of a company having to develop a feature because ChatGPT kept repeating its hallucination about it. techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/c...
ChatGPT hallucinated about music app Soundslice so often, the founder made the lie come true | TechCrunch
Adrian Holovaty, founder of music-teaching platform Soundslice, finally solved a months-long mystery: weird images of ChatGPT sessions kept being uploaded to the site.
techcrunch.com
July 26, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Wow! Potentially the first documented case of a company having to develop a feature because ChatGPT kept repeating its hallucination about it. techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/c...
AI-driven search is rewriting the playbook. But if you never learned the SEO 101 playbook, this post is for you. gregswan.substack.com/p/seo-geo-ae...
July 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
AI-driven search is rewriting the playbook. But if you never learned the SEO 101 playbook, this post is for you. gregswan.substack.com/p/seo-geo-ae...
Asked a ChatGPT agent to research a trendy birthday cake I could bake and add all the ingredients to my Instacart and it DID ALL THE WORK 🤯
And it skipped all the steps for me: Google, recipes, shopping, and delivery.
We are living in a fascinating, transformational time.
And it skipped all the steps for me: Google, recipes, shopping, and delivery.
We are living in a fascinating, transformational time.
July 25, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Asked a ChatGPT agent to research a trendy birthday cake I could bake and add all the ingredients to my Instacart and it DID ALL THE WORK 🤯
And it skipped all the steps for me: Google, recipes, shopping, and delivery.
We are living in a fascinating, transformational time.
And it skipped all the steps for me: Google, recipes, shopping, and delivery.
We are living in a fascinating, transformational time.
The part about AI transcriptions nobody thought about? When you just swear quietly to yourself during the workday...
"An isolated expletive is heard during a period of silence"
"An isolated expletive is heard during a period of silence"
July 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The part about AI transcriptions nobody thought about? When you just swear quietly to yourself during the workday...
"An isolated expletive is heard during a period of silence"
"An isolated expletive is heard during a period of silence"
In the words of Santana featuring Rob Thomas, "Man, it's a hot one"
July 24, 2025 at 2:18 AM
In the words of Santana featuring Rob Thomas, "Man, it's a hot one"
I like to make my vacations adventuresome, don’t you?
July 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I like to make my vacations adventuresome, don’t you?
Do you want AI in your kids’ toys? It’s coming. Mattel announced a partnership with OpenAI to ship its first AI-powered toy by Xmas. So @jasonderusha.com and I invited Gabo, the GPT-powered plushie, to chat with us about it!
Read more about here: open.substack.com/pub/gregswan...
Read more about here: open.substack.com/pub/gregswan...
July 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Do you want AI in your kids’ toys? It’s coming. Mattel announced a partnership with OpenAI to ship its first AI-powered toy by Xmas. So @jasonderusha.com and I invited Gabo, the GPT-powered plushie, to chat with us about it!
Read more about here: open.substack.com/pub/gregswan...
Read more about here: open.substack.com/pub/gregswan...
Team Add Some Typos On Purpose Around Em Dashes So People Won’t Think It’s AI.
July 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Team Add Some Typos On Purpose Around Em Dashes So People Won’t Think It’s AI.
Reddit may someday soon require users to get their irises scanned and stored in the blockchain in order to use its site. I visited World last month and wrote about verifying my humanity here 👀 open.substack.com/pub/gregswan...
June 21, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Reddit may someday soon require users to get their irises scanned and stored in the blockchain in order to use its site. I visited World last month and wrote about verifying my humanity here 👀 open.substack.com/pub/gregswan...
AI-optimized actually just means human-optimized in 2025.
June 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
AI-optimized actually just means human-optimized in 2025.