Sorry for the shit image quality but here’s another ad by the same company for a better idea of it
Flew over the may day rally in San Francisco.
They’re dabbing on us
/- Matt christman
I see a lot of ads for ai slop on the subway and I refuse to engage with them. I don’t look them up. Fuck 'em.
Sometimes people vandalize them and if I saw someone doing so, I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Flew over the may day rally in San Francisco.
Don’t take the bait.
Fartisan
This company is known for this. To clarify, I mean known for making deliberately inflammatory ads, then showing them as obtrusively or carelessly as possible, because it gets people to post about it.
The only reason their company got popular in the first place was when they put these ads everywhere to piss people off and generate engagement.
“The goal of the campaign was always to rage bait”
This guerrilla marketing approach, combined with traditional media coverage and tactics, led to significant success. Artisan saw a remarkable +197% growth in brand search traffic, quickly establishing itself as the most well-known AI employee creator.
Oh yeah, rage sells even better than pornography.
Meta and Google etc realised this years ago already and tuned their algorithms for this. Get people enraged, they’ll scroll more and see more ads, more revenue! It’ll enrage people, divide people, get them to vote for the worst candidates, like Trump.
Tech companies have ruined and continue to ruin the world and right bros are full on aiming to end it for all of us so that they can live in some utopia whole the rest of us are dead or suffering
Sounds super conspiratorial? Thiel, Musk, as a few good examples
Yeah, it’s just a cringey PR-stunt.
Wow we paid for all this search traffic! Didn’t get many new customers, but just think of all the brand engagement!
Damn, while I fell for it. Hopefully this won’t give them any business
arson
Flown in a plane by a human.
Give it time, soon enough they’ll be AI planes crashing all around us and it will be considered “progress”
Can’t speak for this specific instance of course, but in the UK you occasionally get people flying messages over football ⚽ grounds or whatever, and I have read more than once that the company doing the flying don’t actually know what message they are pulling - they just get the packaged up message and fly it where the customer asks them to.
Don’t know if that’s true, though and it’s arguable whether that absolves them completely of responsibility for the message being shown.
EDIT - that being said, the first example I found contradicts me - here, the message was known by everyone, including the pilot!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/26783751
EDIT 2 - a particularly nasty example here, where someone mentions banners not being checked. They definitely should have been.
“Due to the nature of the activity, banners are not checked before take-off and the content is at the operator’s discretion.”
I mean they use autopilot for most of the flight.
In a lil Cessna banner plane?
They’ll cram AI in there given the chance
Uhh yeah, almost all planes have an autopilot system.
Cesnas don’t have the fully hydraulic avionics needed for autopilot, no?
Since when is that a requirement? Other types exist.
You can use linkages and mechanics in automation too, not just fluids, pneumatics as well.
I really didn’t think Cesnas were as modern or complex as to have that sort of arrangement … I can’t think how it would make economic sense.
That being said, we live in an age of long range drones being based on light aircraft, so maybe they can be retrofitted these days?
Modern…? Why do you think it’s complex?
They’ve been around since 1912.
What’s this about economic sense? It’s to make pilots jobs easier and allow longer flights.
Which isn’t (yet) AI.
Still isn’t a human, the distinction is irrelevant.
A computer or a set of instructions is handling it, instead of a human, saying it’s Ai or not instead is missing the entire point.
You are saying one’s okay, but not the other? How would they be different?
how much does a lazer cost?
Depends how big. The one I want is like almost a thousand dollars.
What about a Stinger missile?
I am irreplacable. I’d like to see AI drink 12 beers and disappoint my girlfriend sexually.
Just because AI can’t do that doesn’t mean I couldn’t replace you.
Fair point. But can you spend 4 hours not getting sound to work on a Linux distro?
I’ve spent my whole life doing that.
I seem to have met my match. We are both telepathetic, it seems.
tele-pathetic lol
Yup. I’m pathetic over long distances. Even my family in New Zealand is ashamed of me.
I don’t think I’ve ever had an issue with sound since we got rid of OSS and multiple sound sources could be mixed together.
Its just been automagic since.
I blame the Linux distro
Gentlemen, gentlemen, please! One at a time! We can ALL disappoint this guys girlfriend TOGETHER! Just everybody take a number! I believe I’m third…
That’s the spirit. With cooperation and a little bit of luck, we can reach unthinkable levels of disappointment.
What’s her number?
3
That’s number wang!
Ragebait. It’ll sell like hot cakes.
And I’m falling for it. Promoting such thing is outrageous.
Agreed. What I meant is the target group: they probably love the idea that this is offensive and inhuman.
It’s also bullshit. A lie, a boundless exaggeration.
edit: “piss people off and generate engagement”, see @ambitiousprocess@piefed.social’s comment.
Yup. VC works on creating (bad) hype
Well, the goal was always to turn the universe into a dead soup that a handful of sick fucks play god in.
All right. But AI is gonna have a tough time expressing my fox terrior’s anal glands!
Soon AI will be touching your dog in ways you could never.
Why would you hire humans when you can spend a lot of money on a totally incompetent, yet incredibly arrogant chatbot instead?
Whoever thought of this should have to breath solely from the exhaust port of a data center.
Or just live near one.
