Personalization vendor Evergage, whose product includes a Customer Data Platform, announced a $10 million Series C funding, bring total funding to $31.5 million. Evergage does real time personalization for Web sites and mobile apps.

One reason retailers don’t do personalization is it’s too complicated. Artificial intelligence is expected to help, according to a Forrester study for ecommerce platform vendor Emarsys. Intelligent recommendations was the second-most planned application for AI (40%), following analytics (43%). Using AI to personalize customer experiences across channels was the most common application expected to be implemented within the next twelve months (81%).

Unauthorized training data isn’t an existential threat to generative AI but it’s certainly a headache for users and developers alike.  Most developers are trying to exclude materials that creators have explicitly labeled as unauthorized and citing “fair use” as justification for copying everything else.  Getty Images has taken an opposite approach, building its gen AI tool only on materials that are explicitly licensed.  It’s possible that tracing the provenance of training data will become a standard, similar to how organic food producers trace the origins of their ingredients.