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Guys, let’s be honest. We’re officially in an era where every other person thinks they’re an AI architect just because they bought a subscription.

I haven’t been in marketing long—only three years—but the phrase “my nephew with a chatbot” still makes me want to jump out the window.

• According to this year’s stats, companies are pouring more money into ChatGPT than into any other software, but 50–70% of that money is just garbage. Endless over-generations due to dumb prompts and Gemini 3.1 hallucinations, which still account for about 25%.
• These bots generate content that looks “okay” but makes no sense to real customers.

It’s sterile garbage that Google can spot a mile away.

• Google doesn’t care as long as the content is useful, but “usefulness” from a bot without edits is a myth.

AI is a cool tech assistant. 

It’s great for writing complex regexes for GSC or finding bugs in code. 

But building a strategy around it without using your brain is like letting a monkey fly a plane just because it knows how to press a button. 

AI in Google Ads is no longer the future; it’s a reality. However, for many e-commerce businesses, this is becoming a trap: reports show an increase in conversions, but actual profit margins are falling.

Join us for a free webinar “How AI Is Changing PPC: Hidden Risks That Are Killing Your Ecommerce Profit” hosted by Elit-Web (Google Premier Partner), where we’ll explore the “dark side” of AI.

What we’ll cover:

- How AI is really impacting your ad budget efficiency and net profit — not just performance metrics
- Why your ads may be driving conversions while your business is losing margin
- Whether AI algorithms can actually optimize for profit, or just spend your budget smarter
- How to scale profit, not just traffic and conversions
- How to minimize financial risks in AI-driven advertising and protect your unit economics

🎙 Speaker: Head of PPC at Elit-Web.

🗓 When: Thursday, May 28, 12 PM CDT.

🎁 Bonus: A special gift for all live stream participants.

🚀 Register here: https://elit-web.com/webinar-registration/?utm_source=link_groups

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We all know that billions of posts are being generated right now.
Most companies are currently simply “burning” money due to inefficient prompt engineering.

How much goes down the drain (2026 statistics):

Category	Cost	Source/Context
Solo	$70–200/mo	Subscriptions (GPT Pro already $200 for teams)
Team	$150–300/person	Using 8+ tools simultaneously
Enterprise	$1.2M/year	108% growth compared to last year
Global spend	$2.52T	Expected AI market size in 2026 (+44%)

The scariest number: 50–70% of the budget is wasted.

These are ineffective prompts, endless retries and hallucinations that have to be redone.

ChatGPT is now #1 on the list of SaaS expenses for most companies.

Do you even keep track of your AI billing? Or are you one of those who just wonders at the end of the month where a couple hundred (or thousand) bucks disappeared to?

Silicon Valley is awake, and this week's numbers look surreal.

We've rounded up the top news stories you might find useful.

• Meta & CoreWeave ($21B): Zuckerberg continues to “burn” billions (now $7B more than planned). They want their own infrastructure so they don’t have to pay Google/Microsoft. For US, this is a signal: the fight for their own LLM ecosystems is only heating up.

• The demand for AI chips is not just growing, it’s exploding. This means that computing power will become more affordable, but the competition for “smart” content will grow exponentially.

• Microsoft and Google are funding the reactors.This is no longer just “software”, it’s a battle for physical energy.

• Engineers in the Valley are literally “burning” tokens to the max to test the limits of their models. What we now consider “expensive APIs” will soon become a penny, but the data volumes will be insane.

What do you think: are we really on the verge of a "nuclear" breakthrough in AI, or is Big Tech simply building the most expensive pyramid in history that will burn down along with these reactors?

It's interesting to read stories where AI has only made things worse, not the other way around. Real-life experience

I think "Take a deep breath" really adds to the IQ model.