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By Marline Paul | ECS Insights™ | March 2026 Let me tell you what International Women's Day looked like for me this year. No spa. No brunch. No quiet corner with a good book. I was sitting at my desk, talking to an AI, building a 3D camping adventure game with my son — and it was one of the best days of my life. It Started With a Hackathon I Almost Didn't Join A few weeks ago, I came across a 3-day AI Hackathon hosted by Marcin Teodoru and Sabrina Ramonov. The concept was sim

I need to share something I've been telling my friends for months. It's time the rest of the world hears it too. ChatGPT gaslights me. And Claude? Claude throws me shade. Every. Single. Time. Now, before you think I've lost it, let me explain. This realization changed how I use AI in my business, and it might change yours too. The Conference That Started It All A few weeks ago, I attended an ALF (Assisted Living Facility) conference. As I walked through the sessions, soaking

The conversation we need to be having about what we're feeding these models — and what they're keeping. If your social media feed looks anything like mine right now, it's flooded with AI-generated caricatures. People are uploading their photos, asking AI to turn them into cartoon characters, Pixar-style portraits, anime versions of themselves — and honestly? They look amazing. I did it too. I took a photo I already had out there and let the model create a caricature based on