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Wired found code for a face-recognition feature called 'Name Tag' silently embedded in Meta's AI app that powers its smart glasses, pulling face prints from Meta's servers.
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Wired discovered face-recognition code called 'Name Tag' silently embedded across millions of phones in Meta's smart glasses AI app, pulling biometric face prints from Meta's servers. Meta hasn't enabled it, but the capability is built and waiting. Fr. Robert Ballecer has spent 7 years poisoning facial recognition databases with fake tagged photos to fuzz his identity.
Bhanu and his team built approximately 50 free tools to attract search traffic, each linked back to SiteGPT.
With AI coding tools like Cursor, Bhanu can now create a new free marketing tool in less than 5 minutes by referencing existing tools.
Bhanu filters Ahrefs keyword results to show only those with a keyword difficulty below 10, making them realistic ranking targets for any decent website.
Bhanu sets a minimum search volume of 1,000 monthly searches when selecting keywords to target with free tools.
PropGPT averaged 20 downloads per day right after launching on the App Store through influencer marketing.
Eyal and Yali shut down all marketing and spent 4 months completely rebuilding PropGPT from scratch.
PropGPT has accumulated over 40,000 total downloads since launch.
PropGPT's large language model (AI) operating costs are just $20 per month, and the cost is continually falling.
Ad-based monetization works well for game apps where users spend extended time in-session, as seen with Grid and Wordle.
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