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Google Maps or driving by their house won’t tell you if someone has a Lexus parked inside their garage.


If someone owns a home with a garage, you don't need to know what kind of car they own to case how wealthy they are. It'll be pretty obvious just by looking at the house, the lawn, the neighbors homes, their lawns, their cars, is there a pool in the backyard, is there a community pool with expensive memberships, etc. Google maps and social media will tell you a whole lot... for free.

Why pay? Clearly not because some people may own garages and they may or not store their cars in them. Most people load their garages up with so much shit a car doesn't have a prayer of fitting anyways.


Just because lots of info is available doesn't mean more info wouldn't be useful. You never know if your customer might be well above the neighborhood's average wealth. Or be average but have poor impulse control when spending money, which is even more valuable.


No company wants to blow $50 a customer on tokens for the possibility of maybe selling them a roof, when they can use the free bits of the internet... for free.

Given the recent exposure of how token usage and limits have somehow gone through the roof in the past few months reinforces this point.




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