Cornucopia Curated

Tools & Tricks from the AI Underground

Tely.ai (Paid)

Your buyers are already asking AI what to buy. Tely.ai helps your business show up in those answers across ChatGPT, Google, Claude, and Perplexity.

Learn how to get recommended by AI search tools

Lightfield (Paid)

An AI CRM that captures meetings, emails, and next steps automatically so sales teams spend less time logging and more time selling.

Explore Lightfield

Skills in Chrome (Free)

Turn prompts into reusable one-click workflows inside your browser for tasks like document analysis, comparisons, and calculations.

Learn how to build Chrome AI workflows

Notion AI Workspace Auditor (Included in Notion AI)

AI agents in Notion can now audit entire workspaces, identify inefficiencies, and suggest or apply fixes.

1. Open Notion and go to Notion AI
2. Browse templates and install Workspace Auditor
3. Grant access to relevant pages
4. Run “Audit this page”
5. Review or apply suggested fixes

Explore Notion AI

ElevenLabs Flows (Free Trial / Paid)

Turn a product image into a finished video ad using image, voice, music, and editing tools in one workflow.

1. Go to ElevenLabs
2. Open Flows
3. Upload image
4. Add voice and music
5. Generate video

Try ElevenLabs Flows

Ollama (Free)

Run AI models directly on your laptop with no cloud connection or subscription.

1. Download from ollama.com
2. Install locally
3. Choose a model like gemma3
4. Start chatting offline

Download Ollama

Storypitch.ai (Paid)

Generates structured, human-sounding marketing copy tailored to your business.

Generate AI copy

Ideogram Custom Models (Paid)

Train image generation models on your brand style using 15–100 reference images.

Train a custom visual model

ChatGPT Images 2.0

Improved image generation with stronger text rendering and structured outputs.

Learn more

Related coverage

ERNIE Image

A compact open model that produces high-quality structured images and runs on consumer hardware.

Explore ERNIE Image

Scrunch AI Audit

Analyze how your website performs in AI-driven search environments.

Run an AI audit

How People Are Actually Using AI

“I became the AI guy at work”

“At almost 70 years old, I used ChatGPT to build a QR-based tracking system using Microsoft Forms, Lists, and Power Automate. Now I’m the ‘AI guy’ at work.”

— Will G., Nashville

“I turned tax chaos into a structured system”

“I photographed handwritten donation lists, uploaded them to Claude, and it handled transcription, categorization, FMV estimates, and PDF summaries for nearly 400 items.”

— Mark M., Virginia

Feature: Eco-Art and Perception

(A quiet collision of art, AI-era perception, and what we choose to notice)

Mariah Reading takes discarded objects—often found in or near national parks—and turns them into painted works where nothing is hidden, only reframed. (See sample at the top.)

A piece of trash becomes a landscape.Then the landscape becomes uncertain.

It’s the kind of work that doesn’t announce itself. It just shifts something in how you look.

There’s something almost AI-like in the effect—not in how it’s made, but in how it recombines perception. The same raw material, reorganized until your brain stops trusting its first read.You don’t fully “get it” in one glance. That’s the point.

View her artwork

AI Run Amok / Humor / Internet Weirdness

There’s a moment happening online where AI stops feeling like a tool and starts feeling like background noise you can’t quite turn off.

The internet, naturally, has responded with sarcasm.

Your AI Slop Bores Me

A growing number of people have started calling low-effort AI content “slop”—overly polished, oddly empty, and everywhere all at once. One response: a site where humans role-play as AI and answer prompts in real time. It’s part satire, part performance, and occasionally more entertaining than the real thing.

Take a look

When AI runs a retail store

Someone recently gave AI control over retail decisions—with a real budget.

The result wasn’t dystopian. It was… familiar. Overconfident decisions, questionable assumptions, and the kind of mistakes you’d expect from someone who read the manual but skipped the experience.

See how it went

Strategic laziness

Writers, artists, and athletes are quietly making the case that rest isn’t the opposite of productivity—it’s part of it. In a moment where everything can be generated, optimized, and accelerated, the countertrend is simple: maybe don’t.

Read more

And then there’s this…

Somewhere along the way, AI decided December is now spelled “Dexember.”

No explanation. No correction. Just quiet confidence.

Watch it happen

It’s powerful. It’s imperfect. It’s not going away. Might as well get good at it. 😁