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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-26T17:38:38.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Yeah, I think so. I mean, my guess is that a lot of the AI currently being added to fitness apps is there mostly for marketing reasons: “AI features will probably be a selling point, so make something we can call an AI feature.” And that is not really limited to fitness apps, or even to AI. Whenever a new technology shows up, this kind of thing tends to happen across pretty much every field…\n\nSo in the case of fitness apps, I am not sure they have quite reached the point of creating serious dependency yet, but I can definitely see them drifting in that direction.\n\nWhen I was working out the answer above with GPT, what I was mainly thinking about was this: users have their own circumstances. If we do not know those circumstances, then any advice we give has limits. Big, ambitious advice is often not very realistic, and it can also start crossing into medical territory. So the question was not, “Just use AI somehow and make a fitness app that will sell.” It was more like: “If we are going to integrate current generative AI into an existing fitness app, what is a realistic and honest version of that, using technology we are likely to have within the next five years, that actually benefits the user without getting in the way of their own way of doing things?”\n\nSo, yeah, I suppose I was thinking about it more as a technical and design question. Or maybe a product-ethics question. I had been thinking about it in a more casual way, but I think your reading is probably right on the mark.",
  "title": "Is AI Really Necessary in Fitness App Development Today?"
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