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Christopher Penn

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Co-founder & #AI #DataScience @TrustInsights , ninja, @mktgovercoffee cohost, keynote speaker, #IBMChampion. #FullyVaxxed. #lgbtq ally. He/him. 🇺🇸🇰🇷🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 Company: https://www.trustinsights.ai Newsletter: https://almosttimely.substack.com

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 27d

If everyone is invited, by definition it is not "exclusive".

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Richard @mcclurgmarketing.com · Sep 12

If you want to take your AI skills in marketing to the next level, consider the @trustinsights.bsky.social 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘈𝘐 𝘜𝘴𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 course taught by @cspenn.com.

Christopher covers 21 use cases across 7 categories. You'll think of a whole whack more.

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How to use AI for marketing: 7 categories, 21 examples | Richard McClurg posted on the topic | LinkedIn

That’s me and my dog on a rocky overhang. Many marketers are standing on a similar cliff with AI right now — staring at the view, reluctant to dive in deep. Why? Because they still think “generative...

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · Sep 4

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · Jul 14

And I say revise because the EU AI Act is now enforced law.

Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · Jul 14

artificialintelligenceact.eu/article/50/

Some folks argue this only applies to the tool makers like ChatGPT. I cautiously read it that deployers might include me, since I'm the one using the system.

Article 50: Transparency Obligations for Providers and Deployers of Certain AI Systems | EU Artificial Intelligence Act

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · Jul 14

I need to revise it because of how Article 50 is written:

Deployers of an AI system that generates or manipulates text which is published with the purpose of informing the public on matters of public interest shall disclose that the text has been artificially generated or manipulated.

Article 50: Transparency Obligations for Providers and Deployers of Certain AI Systems | EU Artificial Intelligence Act

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · Jun 25

Learn the 48 foundation principles of generative AI in my new book, Almost Timeless: cspenn.gumroad.com/l/almosttime...

Almost Timeless : 48 Foundation Principles of Generative AI

Are you trying to drink from the AI firehose?You blink, and a new model is announced. You’re buried in "secret" hacks that are obsolete tomorrow. Chasing fleeting tactics in a field that moves this fa...

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · Jun 12

System wide Google outage as of 1433 EDT.

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · Jun 10

Make a batch of your favorite coffee and freeze in ice cube trays. Then use that to make iced coffee. Doesn’t get watered down.

Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · Jun 5

You appreciate the luxury of a simple bed once you’ve tried to sleep in an economy plane seat on a redeye.

Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · May 25

PSA:

Memorial Day honors those who have fallen in service of the nation.
Veterans Day honors those who served the nation in the past.
Armed Forces Day honors those who serve the nation now.

Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · May 21

Gemini Flash 2.5 0520 is perhaps the greatest bargain in API-based generative AI ever.

Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · May 11

Definitely not free of mirages!

Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · May 11

I rebuilt Pepperoni Hug Spot using Veo 2, Eleven Labs, Suno, and Premiere. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf7O... So much has changed in just 2 years.

Pepperoni Hug Spot Mid 2025 w/Veo 2, Eleven Labs, Suno

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · May 8

If AI development stopped today, Gemma 3 and Qwen 3 would suit 90% of your needs forever more.

Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · May 5

PSA: Mexico's independence day is September 16, not May 5.

Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · May 4

Was secretly replacing the fine dining coffee with Folger's crystals a testament to their quality or an indictment of people's complete lack of situational awareness?

Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · Apr 29

Somehow Qwen3 30B is 30% faster than Gemma 3 27B. Both Bartowski GGUF static quants. Gemma 3 at q5_k_l, Qwen3 at Q6_k_l. What the heck? How did they pull that off? Its reasoning is really good too.

Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · Apr 18

Sitting in the airport and literally half the people in the terminal are using their phones at full volume on speaker. Calls. Video games. Videos. Music. Is the economy so bad that no one owns earbuds or headphones any more?

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · Apr 14

The new benchmark for laptop battery tests should be running an LLM at full tilt. My fancy new Macbook lasts about 60 minutes on Gemma 3 27B IT served via koboldcpp.

Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · Apr 2

PSA: It's April 2. Mark read and archive everything, else you'll be falling for April Fool's content for some time.

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ACLU @aclu.org · Apr 1

BREAKING: A federal court ruled that Alabama cannot prosecute people for helping others travel across state lines to access abortion care.

This is a win for our freedom of speech and our right to travel freely.

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · Apr 1

PSA: if you see a great software/SaaS April fools joke and you want it to be real, fire up some AI coding tools and make it so. Don’t let a good idea go to waste.

Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · Apr 1

For April Fool’s Day this year, I resurrected an idea that the Opera browser company made over a decade ago, but has since vanished from the internet: a choose your own corporate 💩 press release.

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Have fun making it progressively more and more unhelpful!

Choose Your Level of Corporate 💩 Press Release

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · Apr 1

PSA: Believe even less you see on the Internet today than you already do... and most of it is already fairly unbelievable. #AprilFoolsDay