Where are you guys seeing all these ads? Do you not have adblockers?
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I am so used with uBlock origin and DNS level blocking that when i use someone else device i just get confused by the absurd amount of ads
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I'm so used to hard adblock everything, no ai google - that one time i opened adblockless browser and tried googling something instantly turned into that Joe Pesci meme - so many ads - KILL IT WITH FIRE
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guy 1: did you remember my birthday?
guy 2: whispers hey siri what’s this guys birthday
siri: it’s october 27th
guy 2: your birthday is october 27th
guy 1: wow you remembered!
*I AM a geeenius*
These versions of the ads are so cringe to me.
“Help me lie to people’s faces” is a terrible ad campaign.
The Apple one with that last of us actress is especially cringe as she greets him and just lies to his face about how could she not remember. I need help remembering names, but that’s not what the ad was showing.
I saw a study recently that found, when using "AI", people are more likely to lie/cheat/steal.
I wonder if that study accounted for a self selection bias. Could it just be that people who use AI were already people who lie/cheat/steal more often?
I had the same thought, but no, it was a controlled experiment where participants were given tasks that may or may not involve an AI tool, and the ones involving AI came back with less honest answers.
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They always seem to have bought ad time without any real idea what to pitch. One would have thought that'd be a step in the process but apparently not.
It can summarise your text messages!
Oh, yes, because that's an insurmountable amount of text to read, please hold my hand through this difficult time.
AI is getting billions in investment. Every single company out there is pushing employees to use it. Most brands have OKRs of shoving AI into their services.
And yet a chat box, removing objects in pictures or generating mediocre images is all they ever achieve.
Nobody goes beyond that. It's always the same as ChatGPT but with a modified system prompt. It's always image generation. Oh look we spent half of the quarter's budget but now our website displays an AI generated summary on top of the already easy to read information!
Which to me is irrefutable proof that AI is a useless money sink. Every company out there battling to grab your attention with AI, billions of dollars, market pressure and it's still useless?
Hey AI, I bought ad time without any real idea what to pitch, what do I do
AI: Sandwich
Wow
My favorite is this combo of AI "benefits":
- Create fully-written emails from a few simple bullet points!
- Summarize long emails into simple bullet points!
Imagine if we could just send bullet point emails, huh?
I recently saw an AI summary appear on a YouTube video. "This is a video about a man sitting in a room talking about technical stuff." Yeah, no shit, I knew that by seeing the thumbnail. A small list of the point he was making was too much for an AI. Useless toys.
The one where he's making gochujang pasta sauce and puts too much sugar in, and Gemini is like "let's turn it into cookies!"
OK but what is he going to have on his pasta? It solved the problem of wasting the ingredients but not, like, the main problem.
Woah there, you're talking like a guy who has never had pasta a la cookies
Wait... gochujang is Korean spicy red pepper paste. Gemini suggested turning it into cookies?
Sounds to me like it created more problems than it solved.
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Sure thing, you want to make a sandwich. What a fun idea to put a twist on a longstanding lunch tradition! I like the way you think! Would you like me to help pull together an organized list of ideas for some delicious breaded creations?
Talkie Toaster created. Red Dwarf timeline confirmed.
you may laugh but that is the end goal. we're already seeing this in people who are overreliant on AI: you get used to off-loading your brain activity so much that you need to consult AI for the most basic shit. like remembering to eat, or calculating 4+10.
@grok is this real?
@Grok: I don't know but here's a white supremacist conspiracy theory stated as fact, straight from Elon's ketamine brain
Good question! This reminds me somewhat of the great and excellent Adolf Hitler, who would distribute sandwiches to the masses. Let's clone him! Give your money to your local fascist cult!
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Me: What should I have for lunch?
AI: Have you ever tried pinecone jam and barbequed hammers?
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Or the: "Hey Gemini move my 4 o clock"
First of all, that's as easy as dragging the appointment to a different place in the calendar which takes less time and shows you what other stuff you have going on. Second of all, rude! Don't just move the appointment. At least call or ping me on whatever chat system we both use. Not because it's required, but it's good to treat other people as actual human beings instead of you being a Karen Main Character. Third of all, move it where? When are you going to have the appointment? It's AI, not fucking magic, but the people who want your dollar probably want you to think it is magic.
Those commercials are the worst. If this is the best idealized scenario they can come up with, the product must be real shit.
We had a presentation at work that the VPs were so proud of and proclaimed to be the future of business with AI. Ready? Are you sure? The pure vision involved is staggering, and I want you to be prepared for it. Ok, here goes:
Here's the scenario... A buyer gets an email from another employee to buy something for the business. The buyer opens an AI bot and tells it to search their email for purchase requests. The AI identifies which emails are likely purchase requests. The buyer then asks the AI to see the first one. It is a purchase request! Hooray! The AI sees that the amount is over a certain dollar amount. It asks, "Do you want to forward it to your manager for approval?" "Why, yes, thank you!" It then sends a kindly worded email on their behalf to their manager. Eventually, the manager replies and the next time the buyer opens their AI chatbot it notices the response and interprets the response as an approval. "Would you like to process this purchase request?" "Yes please, almighty chat bot!" The application then copies what it thinks are the relevant data (carefully formatted for the success of the demo, of course) into a web form open in a browser window for the buyer to submit to the purchasing system.
Mid-six figure executives of this fortune 100 company, some with C__ in their titles, applauded. They shook hands. They beamed and professed the future was here and we were on the forefront of it.
Not a single Vice President in this "technology company" bothered asking WHY THE FUCK WE WERE MAKING PURCHASE REQUESTS BY FUCKING EMAIL. Like, maybe we should go back to 1999 and master digital workflows first? Or at this point even pay some consultant hacks to implement some of that RPA crack they were peddling a decade before that we dropped $10M on? Or maybe, maybe, take Microsoft's dick out of our mouths long enough to ask whether ANY of this makes sense!
The future has arrived. This bubble can't pop soon enough.
This was the single funniest thing I've read all week. Thank you
At my place of work I sometimes come across tickets for users in the company asking for access to certain paid AI tools, with excuses like: "Access to chatGPT to more effectively send emails to clients" and
"Need AI image generation for blog update" even though we have an ENTIRE fucking art department.
It makes me laugh but it also makes me sad. I mark them as low priority and move on to other shit.
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Glue pizza?
It's funny because it's the same ads from the first wave of voice assistants. This AI stuff sure is revolutionary eh
Lmao yes.
But now you can talk to your phone! Yeah it could already do that. But now it can misunderstand you and fuck up what you wanted it to do! Jup already did that as well. But now it can misunderstand you in new and mysterious ways! You son of a bitch, I'm in
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To be fair, the users they target really are bumbling idiots who need this.
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Oh no I put too much sugar in my sauce. Time to make some dogshit passata cookies instead
Huh, I've lived without ads of any kind other than what I see at the tramstop or going past stores that I never thought about AI ads being a thing. It's not surprising at all, both their existence and people falling for it, but it's just such a weird realisation.
The often used idea, in all kinds of media, of someone living in a weird dystopia and not really being aware of it but slowly getting hints and seeing stuff that makes them go "huh, this is some weird shit that's apparently daily life for a lot of people" is something I feel more and more.
And this isn't some "I'm smarter than them/everyone else" thing, it's just that my brain is wired in a way where I often get these moments of difference, and I know many people feel the same, especially here.
Never used or had interest in AI for anything other than a few minutes of "let's try this AI image generation thing to make weird shit".
Not exactly, but it has a similar, very overwhelming taste. I personally don't like either so similarity might just be in my head. Definitely worth trying once.
I'm going to be real honest here. I often need someone to tell me what to eat. The decision can be too much of an obstacle, especially when I'm hungry.
We technically solved this problem years ago:
They should make this but with actual food instead of answers. Shake up the Magic Ate Ball and it says a meal. I'd buy that.
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There used to be a tool called WheelOfLunch that would grab nearby restaurants and put them on a giant Wheel-of-Fortune style wheel and let you spin it. Used it to break many "where should we go" logjams in the office. It was nice
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Okay, but with Sora 2, consider that you can...
Make SpongeBob cosplay as Hitler and create a video of Pikachu shoplifting pokeballs.
Think about how much value that ads.
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Astrid has like 3/10 music but 10/10 tweets. I love her so much
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