A billboard in downtown San Francisco

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odbol@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 3y (8 replies)

Is this an ad for something or just trying to spread general fear and panic?

Suedeltica@kbin.social · 18 pts · 3y

Yeah, I’m unclear on whether this is for or against

illah@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 3y (3 replies)

It’s for Intercom per a follow up billboard down the road, thought it was an activist billboard at first.

kautau@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Lol and still AI chat it’s are like “is your problem with windows 10 or windows 11?”

“Windows 11”

“Great, happy I was able to help you today, please fill out this short survey on how I did”

Gond0r@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

“I believe you’re mistaken. Windows 11 does not exist, and I’m unwilling to continue this conversation.”

admin@m.bohlenlabs.com · 2 pts · 3y

@Gond0r @kautau Was that HAL9000? 😄

Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social · 8 pts · 3y

SF is a tech hub so yes, they're probably a company trying market their AI chat support to other companies.

bingbong@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

Just an entity looking for work

pancakes@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y

Divine link severed

sky@lemmy.codesink.io · 34 pts · 3y (6 replies)

One of my favorite parts of living in SF were these dumb billboards. They're so bad - though this one is a bit more dystopian than most.

illah@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Only in SF are the billboards for data platforms and AI enterprise services haha

miked@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y

That section of the freeway always has niche tech billboards. It took me a little while to get used to.

Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social · 7 pts · 3y

Now most of the billboards are about privacy - we value your privacy, our company keeps your data private, blah blah. From Apple, Whatsapp, and Google rofl. Like "we have always been at war with Eastasia" levels of bullshit.

ultimate_question@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Boston has similar hyperspecific billboards directed at biotech companies

residentmarchant@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

That and Rippling! I feel like every trashcan in the city is Ripping or a weed delivery company.

Funny how they both chose the trash cans!

bill_1992@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

How many of these billboard/muni and bart ads are by companies who end up failing?

It really seems like the billboard/transit ad is perfect for founders with too much money and not enough marketing sense.

zosu@vlemmy.net · 8 pts · 3y (1 reply)

ayy the snakeoil

illah@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 3y

So true, a lot of smart people where I work seem to buy the whole “all human knowledge” aspect of GPT models 😬

markstos@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y

Meh, they already have this job. How many times have you had to go through a text or voice chatbot to get a human already?

Should we complain if these bots actually get more useful and answer our questions faster?

Yes, they will be confidently wrong sometimes. But so are the humans.

silverbax@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Why would this poorly photoshopped image be worth posting?

Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social · 9 pts · 3y

It's real, actually, I just saw it the other day. It says exactly what's in the photo.