Where are you guys seeing all these ads? Do you not have adblockers?
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?
At a gas station i saw a sandwich that said “inspired by AI” we’re getting dumber every day
I hate the ones where they have things made out of unexpected materials like jello keyboard. It they have marbles or whatever and they spread it on toast as is gets smashed like jam.
Like, how is that supposed to impress anyone?
Where are all of you seeing ads anywhere?
Or you could just pay for boost the free version has ads that’s not really surprising.
Look up Blockada on F-Droid, it will save you from those. I think it also has a Google Play version, but I can’t vouch for that one working as intended
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I saw one just an hour ago on twitch.
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”.Me: What should I have for lunch?
AI: Have you ever tried pinecone jam and barbequed hammers?
Pinecone jam actually exists, but in defense of your joke, it has a very particular taste. You have to really love licorice to enjoy it.
Pinecone jam sounds like a mountaintop bluegrass festival. Also an apt name for pesto.
To be fair, the users they target really are bumbling idiots who need this.
I see a frightening amount of women on hinge that answer the promt: who do you to to when you need help (or something) with chatgpt. Or chat gpt wrote my bio or chatgpt things i’m really smart
The most tech literate of the bunch probably brag about being able to do the initial setup for their iPhones/iPads without having to take it to the Genius bar.
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
can i get a hint on that last one
My daughter was doing math, basic second grade math, but the way they teach kids to solved math problems now is just not how we did it 30 years ago, and so when she has a problem, 9+8, and she’s supposed to show her work, I have no idea the methods or anything that she’s using and I am zero help to her.
Definitely not going to ask an AI though, that’s silly.
That 9+8 thing holds true even when helping kindergarteners.
By “show your work” they mean “draw 9 blue pens and 8 red pens and then say you counted 17.”
Teacher do it that way during class and wants everyone to do same but we don’t have the context so us adults overthink it.
another option would be to prove it from first principles using Peano arithmetic. the teacher would probably love that.
Yeah, this is some method of turning the 9 into 10, because it’s easier to add 10 and 7 than it is 9 and 8, but I don’t have enough info to help, because I just get told I’m doing it wrong by my kid. I was never into it either as a kid, but mental math would end up failing me later in life, so I’d like to help her, I just need more info!
Oh I’ve seen that described years ago in reddit. It surprised me back then but when I think about it, all my adult life I’ll do that, by now, instinctively.
I think I also saw to break down e.g. 7+8 into 5+2+5+3.
It’s the same as 10+4
“Incorrect. 10+4 is equal to 14. However, 4+10 is equal to 14. So yes, 10+4 is the same as 4+10.”
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.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?
Hey AI, I bought ad time without any real idea what to pitch, what do I do
AI: Sandwich
Wow
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?
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.
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.
Woah there, you’re talking like a guy who has never had pasta a la cookies
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 calender 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.
I guarantee you the classic Google Assistant could’ve done the same. I switched back to it on my phone because, at least when they switched it to Gemini, it couldn’t send texts. I often old down the assistant button on my phone (basically the same as “hey Google” voice prompt but I don’t have that enabled) and say “Text (wife name)” and it’ll say, “sure, what’s the message.” And you dictate to it. But Gemini? It was like “I can’t do that 🥺” like… Then why the fuck are you here? But I guess it can do stuff like that now. I just can’t imagine why they’d swap the hands free assistant to something that can’t do the things you normally want to do hands free. Because immediately after I was like “call (wife’s name)” and again it was like “I can’t 🥺🥺🥺”
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.
I don’t know how the Onion survives today. You can’t make this shit up, it would be too absurd.
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*
Why download a calendar app when you can just get something that is less convenient to use, has less QoL features, can make mistakes and is more expensive/resource intensive, all while supporting a company that is ruining the internet and environment for profit
“Is that rain?”
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.
And by lie, is that with intent? Or spread misinformation without knowing?
What was the speculated rationale in the discussion? Was it that humans feel less accountable if the work is done by AI?
Narrator: It was March 5th.
Narrator: Fast forward to today: one is no longer alive, and the other has a crippling alcohol addiction and a permanently estranged family.
Friends don’t let friends use AI.
That’s like the most mild version. I wouldn’t fault someone for writing down my birthday instead of remembering.
Yep, same. But in a book, not Google Contacts thanks.
Also, MFW an acquaintance wished me happy birthday on 1 Jan because that’s what I give out as my fake birthday. Part cringe but part wonder who gave them that data.
wo-oh o-o-o-ooo
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
The first public demo of Siri back when the iPhone 4S launched is more impressive than most AI commercials.
My favourite one is where a guy repairs a car and asks how to get those pesky screws off. With a screwdriver says Gemini and the guy is just impressed with the smart answer.
