Building a marketing chatbot pt. 3
Why voice control turned out to be a dead end, and the security reason this chatbot stays private rather than going on the open web.
Ben Rees - 16 March 2025

A short post, and really a video.
I have abandoned attempts to control the whole thing by voice as it just seems an enormous amount of work the minimal return. It's cool, but not practically helpful.
Instead and I think more interesting, is going into the world fine-tuning more. If I just wanted general information about marketing, I can do a Google search. The value comes from producing something based on my specific views. As a simple example, I attach much more credence to expertise to search engine optimization. This isn't the view held by everybody in marketing :).
The other interesting point is about security. I have thought about putting this chatbot on the web for anybody to use. But I would need to do an audit of every single piece of information in the underlying database. So for now this is something that I use in general conversation as an aide.
Anyway, I will post more videos as it starts giving me more and more insight.
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