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Geoprise Founder’s Recent Book Dents Rampant AI Hype

Interest in artificial intelligence fell sharply after book was published two months ago

BANGKOK, Thailand, January 21, 2026 ― Worldwide interest in generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) plunged after publication of the influential book You Are Being Scammed, according to Google Trends data. Those trends reveal that the book, written by Geoprise Founder Nelson Nones, dropped at exactly the same moment as the peak of AI hype in November 2025.

Testing the Ability of AI to Discover and Calculate New Reciprocal Tariffs

By: Nelson M. Nones CPIM, Founder, Chairman and President, Geoprise Technologies Corporation

New reciprocal tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump on April 2nd, 2025, came as a shock to many U.S. importers. Considering recent hype, and in particular the ability to digest reams of global trade data in near real time as well as generate program code automatically, one could hardly imagine a scenario in which AI technology is potentially better suited to deal with the resulting business challenges than this. We put this hypothesis to the test.

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