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One AI story a week, read the way a data auditor reads it. The video, the evidence, and the one test to run.
AI Can Copy Any App. 5 Checks Before You Cancel Yours
Free AI clones of Photoshop and Excel are here, but a ₹0 app is never free. Five checks to run before you cancel the software you pay for.
What the file found
- Failed
PhotoCraft's own estimate: ready for real work about 45% of the time, and over a quarter of test files differ.
- Failed
RedAccess said around 5,000 AI-built apps were exposing sensitive data. The platforms said public is not a breach.
- Failed
A QuickBooks 2003 owner couldn't reinstall after his drive died: the activation service, he says, is gone.
- Held
A desktop clone that keeps your files on your own machine can be more private than a cloud app.
The test to run this week
For every app holding customer data, write three lines: what personal data, where it's stored, who you call tonight.
Earlier briefs
All case files- 008 Don't Turn Off Gmail's AI Until You Watch ThisA default is a decision someone else made for you. Failure Teardown
- 007 Why AI Fails Without Anyone Noticing (and How to Catch It)AI observability is vouching for AI: every answer traced back to what it was based on. Audit Playbook
- 006 AI Can Now Clone Photoshop. Here's What Gets You Banned.AI made taking software apart cheap, so the protection moved from code to fine print. Failure Teardown
- 005 A Trusted Security Company's Secret Key Was the Number 4When the evidence and the explanation don't match, re-perform the evidence instead of auditing the story. Failure Teardown
- 004 Grok Bot Wants a Photo of Your Credit Card. Who Pays If It Goes Wrong?A tweet is not a control, and on paper, today, the person who carries the risk is you. Failure Teardown
- 003 I Opened an AI Skill File. Check These 4 Things Before You Install OneThe test isn't whether a skill touches the internet. It's whether what it touches matches what it says it does. Build Lab
- 002 How to Audit a GenAI ImplementationWhatever the model says, the company said it. Audit Playbook
- 001 Claude Code Effort Levels: 0/5 to 5/5 With One Setting (and When It Backfires)More effort fixes missing edge cases. It does not fix a wrong approach. Build Lab
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