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Pixeloid's avatar

So-called “influencers” are useless, obnoxious, narcissistic assholes. Can’t imagine AI being worse than human shaped “influencers” who are less genuine than the worst “reality”show.

(I stand behind every scare quote)

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satch's avatar

Without scare quotes, it would be impossible to describe today's right wing culture.

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Botch Retsil's avatar

I can't help thinking of that wonderful Johnny Cash song, The Ballad of John Henry; he beat that steam drill, fair and square! Yonder lies a steel drivin' Man, Lord Lord!

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satch's avatar
Oct 2Edited

And then John Henry died...

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GrannysKnitting's avatar

i can see the appeal of not having to pay any kind of money or goods and guaranteeing that you get exactly what you want in that content, but influencers are already on their way out

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Tessie's avatar

"It's a tough gig for a gal with no nose."

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If only she'd had the wherewithal to wear a giant cross, she could lie for a living, but now that job is taken.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoline_Leavitt

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kmblue187's avatar

"Like people in the 1800s who were all ‘No electricity for me, thank you very much!’”

First LOL of the day.

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Mark's avatar
Aug 6Edited

Amused that the AI generated video for this AI generated song shows us a AI generated little Black boy just as the lyrics hit the word "brother",,,,,,

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LOU LOU's avatar

I recently was asked if I’d do communications consulting and what services I can provide. I provided a detailed list and added “ it goes without saying I use real intelligence, not AI.” It was a bit risky to be so cheeky but it worked and I was hired.

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Wookiee Monster's avatar

I have no need for a fragrance influencer even if they had a nose. What kind of bullshit career is that? At least when celebrities endorse a product, they’re hired because they’ve done something with their lives besides posting TikTok videos of themselves making heart hands through the sunset.

Grrr, I’m feeling very curmudgeony today.

As for the AI garbage that tech bros assure us will be great one day, who the fuck even wants that? Who wants a future where we’re all scratching out a living scrubbing toilets while algorithms are remaking Casablanca starring six-fingered simulations of Keanu Reeves and Lindsey Lohan?

Who is going to watch that?

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Hank Napkin's avatar

I feel Left Behind. In a good way.

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Innocent_Bystander's avatar

"ALL "Influencers" are complete CRAP!" says this grumpy old man, who shall now go back outside to continue yelling at clouds.

(seriously - "influencer?" GTFO with that)

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Sherry's avatar

Hey there. Everyone remember how the Dot.Com became Dot.Bomb? I suspect that all the $$ pouring into AI will be largely lost especially when they crank out crap like this and fake artists who have used real artists work.

It’s all smoke and mirrors and bullshit.

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Sherry's avatar

Good article from Ted Gioia:

https://substack.com/@tedgioia/p-167457869

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oscarphile's avatar

If it's any consolation, I've managed to make a decent living as a copy editor for 15 years, even well into the spell-check era~~

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Sarah Last's avatar

The bot your bot could smell like. Look at your bot. Now look at me. Now back to your bot. Now back to me. I’m in a Waymo.

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Brianna Amore's avatar

Maybe humans don't actually WANT to be influenced by machines with no souls?

Naaah.

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Bitter Scribe's avatar

Confession: Just for shits and giggles, last night I had Chat GPT generate the sort of trade mag article that I supported myself by writing up until recent retirement.

I hate to say it, but what it spat out had a surface veneer of professionalism. When you read it closely, it's a lot of belaboring the obvious. Sample: "Perhaps the most transformative benefit of smart instrumentation in an IIoT framework is the ability to mine the vast amounts of data generated."

But by adding a few quotes and doing a little reworking, I could quite conceivably shape this into a publishable product.

I think I retired just in time.

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Wookiee Monster's avatar

One of the reasons I could never hack life as a cubicle drone was having to listen to idiots spew whatever meaningless corporate buzzwords were trending at the time. I don’t need an algorithm to spit them at me.

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Bitter Scribe's avatar

I viewed my job as interpreting that shit in a way that made sense. Or just ignoring it entirely when appropriate, which was usually the case.

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Hank Napkin's avatar

Indistinguishable from Ad Copy: "The Waterbroom™. It's a broom, it uses water! The Waterbroom™ (not a broom, water not included).

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Charles in San Diego's avatar

"America’s techiest tech guys have repeatedly told us that pretty soon all of the creative and white collar jobs will be done by AI bots." Cool, so they are openly taking jobs away from people for no actual reason, resulting in no improvement to anybody's lives, so of course they are using their power and influence to develop other jobs for them on the back end, right? Right?

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Wookiee Monster's avatar

Of course not. These are corporate douchebros who probably read “Atlas Shrugged” when they were in middle school and thought it would be totally cool to burn all of society down just to prove how smart they are.

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