My favorite ads are the ones that can easily be solved with minimal human interaction. Apple released an ad for their “rewind” feature where the Apple Watch records everyone’s audio and transcribes it. Their shining example is if the waitress talks too fast you can stare at your watch instead of asking her to repeat herself.
Reminds me of my favorite; Sam Altman suggested using Open AI to create a podcast based on your kids' interests to listen to on the way to school. The top comment was "Just talk to your kids."
I mean, it could definitely be useful to listen to a podcast together with your kids, as a way of bonding. But... why not listen to a podcast made by humans? There are sooo many!
But yes, talk with your kids! the kids will talk nonstop if they see you're actually listening :)
I am reminded of the scene in Parks and Rec where the schools need to be closed for a day and parents are freaking out. One asks, "you're saying I should keep my kids at home? Where I live?"
Many years ago I worked for a small research company that was trying to find applications for voice assistant technology. This was before LLMs mind you, so even more useless than today. One of their projects was “make an ai that will talk to your grandparents and transcribe their stories”.
I told them that if my kids did that to me I’d just never speak to them again.
They tried anyway, and surprise — it went nowhere.
Iirc someone on the selhosted com recently built this exact thing. An AI tool that asks family members questions about their lives and transcribes it into a digital scrapbook thing.
Honestly, if it was more of an assistant that just sat alongside you and just did the recording, that would be dope as fuck.
I'm still sad that I don't have a lot of memories of my grandparents, partially just age, but somewhat because I was an ungrateful little shit. I sat and listened to them talk a lot when I was a kid, and what memories I still have are gold. A tool like that could have helped keep what I had rather than being left with what time and CTE haven't taken.
Hey surveillance device that I but no one else around me opted into, what was that list of specials that the waiter had memorized and just told me? I dont want to simply ask him to repeat it.
So, now the waitress can bring a pre-recorded presentation, play it a 10 times the speed, and the customer can read it from their watch. Saves everybody some time.
Or... They could open the menu card. Also on their watch if they insist.
Ironically. When I was in the Nordics many moons ago and rang up the hostel with my beginner English to ask a question, the receptionist rattled off the answer at 300 words per minute, of which I understood about none. Upon me asking her to repeat, she did in fact repeat, at the same speed and with the same result. I thanked her, hung up the phone and to this day have no idea what she said.
You know what people with hearing problems do actively use when they can, especially in their non-native languages? Subtitles.
Such a great example of the C O N S U M E mindset. Does the TV have the features the person wants? Is it the right size or is taking it home all that matters? Is a deal better than the regular list price for a TV that does what they need?
Ironically, a generic TV with a basic set of features is expensive because it is not "smart" and cannot have streaming tie-ins, pre-installed "apps", or ads.
Hey, I've been on the lookout for a cheap, tiny TV to use as a weather/status board for a long time now.
If you put a six to seven inch tv in front of me that has 1) display 2) HDMI 3) $50, then there's a really good chance I'll buy it right then. After considering if I'm still interested in the project.
I'm "looking" for 6-12 inches. Something I can hang off to the side without being in the way.
I see something pop up occasionally but they usually have more than I want, like batteries, and get more expensive than the project is worth.
There's absolutely a kind of person that does that. My ex's father bought three vacuum cleaners because they were on a good sale and he figured someone he knew would need a vacuum eventually.
For an absolutely massive price cut I could see it. If they were selling Henry Hoovers for £1.99 I would probably take 5 of them. Maybe see if I can strap them together for funny projects.
I have impulse bought a tv, at the store because it was marked down due to being returned after getting a bonus. I have no idea about just doing it randomly while out.
To be fair, a not insignificant portion of that ad's target audience is probably considering impulse leasing a Volvo and showing off all of its gadgets to their friends.
AI definitely produces it's own particular brand of slop and the quantity that can be shat out is unparalleled, but it's worth reminding ourselves we haven't actually fallen that far from 12 page listicles like "Top 10 reasons your plan definitely hates you" filled with whatever the author happened to have to say.
I've been seeing ads made by ai and they're even worse. Just saw one on YouTube for glasses "that change colour with just the touch of a finger!" And had ai video of smiling people at the beach tapping their lenses to change the glass colour multiple times, like the glass itself has rgb. Best part is, the fake product didn't even work consistently in the ai video and didn't change colour when they tapped sometimes.
I genuinely don't understand how an ad that's so obviously fake is tricking enough people to be worth spending an entire ad budget on.
Scams actually work better when they have obvious mistakes. It helps weed out people that might figure out the scam before they've handed over their money, saving the scammers time and effort and making the scam more efficient.
They're targeting a vulnerable population. Grifters are going to grift and things are easier than ever for them. If you make it too hard to return and most people keep your crap, especially if its $20 or less. It would be nice if they found grifts that didn't clog up our landfills and thrift stores but I guess this is better than all the identity theft.
I also can't wait to see what this decades hot new MLM is. Its the selling courses on selling courses bs thats hot now.
I really wish people would start buying this drek with credit cards and doing charge backs. Let's see how long these fuckers last when they're paying the cost of product, shipping, and card processing fees.
Just because you don't see something online, doesn't mean something online can't see you. That's a major worry, or at least it should be, unless you're using today's sponsor, Incogni...
Related, but the amount of tech and/or privacy adjacent youtubers I have seen complain about ads, about what they're doing to be less susceptible, how this or that change is TOO much, and so on if baffling. JUST USE AN ADBLOCKER. There's always one comment pointing that out, with a derailed conversation below, but most of the comments will be "actually, if you repeatedly close then reopen a YouTube video for 10-15 times, it will not show the ad on the next open!" with a million "don't tell, now Google is gonna patch!" replies. I wish I was joking.
If you don't use an Adblocker, get one, NOW. It takes 30s. If you think "it's not that bad", install it anyways and give it a try for a week. Disable it. See if it's really "not that bad", lmao.
Install them on your parents' devices. Your grandparents'. Siblings. Friends.
I was using my mom's computer the other day and I couldn't figure out why I wasn't seeing any ads on her browser. Then I remembered that I had installed uBlock origin for her. I love when past me does current me a solid. I've also told her that she can go on Faceborg if she wants but I will not help her with it in any way (I can't since I haven't been on it since 2008). She tells people I "refuse to let her use it" which is not strictly accurate but I feel pride anyway when she says that.
I like to think of "parents and tech" as "kids and toys". They don't understand it, they just want to use it and enjoy it. And they certainly don't care what problematic ethics are involved. So just like with kids, we have to be more careful and caring. And we definitely don't want to overwhelm them with too much information.
AdNauseam takes a more actively hostile approach to advertising. IIRC Google took it off their plugin platform because they consider it malicious. Which I suppose it is, towards ads.
My girlfriends child is learning in school how to use chatgpt. They are heavily encouraged to use it to control their own text and whatever. She's 8. She's leqrning to use a tool ahe will never ever be allowed to in the future.
That is not good, especially at that age where the brain would be developing rapidly. This is the time where she really needs to use her brain to process information.
I've been seeing ChatGPT ads recently that, I think, are trying to position their AI as something old lonely people can talk to when they have nobody else in their lives. It's really quite sad.
I heard a podcast (maybe This American Life) that spent time with a woman out in the sticks, physically no longer able to be active, all kids many hours away, who was given one of these by her local fire department. She had been scoring lower and lower on cognitive tests for several years, and after getting this thing she reversed that trend. It was creepy, and her kids didn't like it, but it was there and her kids were not, and it clearly had improved her quality of life. It's sad she didn't have human connections in her daily life, but given her circumstances, the thing had upside.
All the common AI tasks that by end-users and small businesses can be done better by local software rather than through compute on a hyperscale platform. The only reason to need big AI is for large-scale projects. They're still selling compute at a huge loss, and their profits are dwarfed by their expenses.
(Some argue the expenses are due to the massive buildout, which is reaching a capability point of diminishing returns. But even the running expenses outweigh the profits, even with government contracts.)
You know, like controlling armies of killer drones, or processing mass surveillance data to find dissidents that are an actual threat. Or doing cyber-ops on a rival nation.
I think that is why the stock market is still investing in big AI, not because we want better slop, but because they want garrison large populations and wreck rival societies.
Only a fool would think AI data centers are to help Timmy with an essay, Gertrude decide on a gift for her grandkids or Cameron the moron write a professional response at work that doesn't sound like it was written by 6th grader...
...it's all about mass surveillance. Always has been.
That and control. It used to be done by keeping the common folk illiterate. Now they're crippling our ability to think entirely. Much easier that way to control the complacent, ignorant masses
I can write my own Grade 8 essays, thank you very much.
One time I successfully used an AI to troubleshoot a sound driver problem in Linux. It was maybe a little faster than casting about on stack exchange. I had to prompt it like 30 times though because it kept being confidently wrong. I didn't continue to use it.
Maybe there are people out there who need something to suggest "sandwich". You buy water from the water company because you wouldn't have water without them. I would be embarrassed to shop from a company that claims to sell "intelligence"
I used Claude terminal and it immediately identified that i had a service that constantly sent small packets to my headset and since all packets have to use the smallest ones it was crackling sometimes due to latency
Fized that and set the minimum to a reasonable amount
Like in the early 2000s when certain websites would copy paste a half a dictionary onto the site description so google would put them in every search result despite not being relevant.
Today's children would wonder how their grandparents lived without cellphone.
Tomorrows children are going to think how we get anything done without AI.
I could live without a cellphone. But since AI got popular, it isn't as easy to keep up at some subjects as it was before (since everybody at our highschool cheated with AI - at least I did most of the non-annoying stuff myself), which means I had to do more work.
Factually, using AI in your education means you get less value out of that education. In every math class ever, you've probably heard some version of,
"I don't care that you got the right answer. I already know that 2x^2 - 5x -3 factors into (2x + 1)(x - 3) and I already know that this information is freely available. What I care about is making sure that you can figure that out without anyone helping you."
If you use AI to do a problem, you're training your ability to do something that everyone else on the planet can do. If you force yourself to do it, you're training your ability to actually think.
You actually WON'T have to do more work in the long run. Think of it as an investment. If you spend the time learning it now, properly, so that you actually understand it, then every test that your study for, for the rest of your life, will be easier, and you'll get higher grades. Measurably.
There was some AI ad where someone pointed their camera to their messy shelf and were like "Hey, how do I clean up my shelf?" and the AI was like "try rearranging the smaller items first" and about a billion people went "no shit".
Or the ones where the knitting grandmas are asking it for advice. Are you kidding me? First off Gemini is the most shit thing I've ever seen when it comes to knitting/crocheting. Second, at that age, either you're a repository for the craft already or you are looking for community and will be knitting aside these walking yarn encyclopedias in a knitting circle.
speak for yourself. chatgpt helped me program a medium-complexity task yesterday within ~3 hours which would have taken me about 1-2 weeks otherwise, i fear. especially, it's really convenient because when you just don't know some technical term, you can just describe what you mean and it will give you the correct keyword, while googling for that kind of information is difficult since you don't even know where to start.
It’s a push-pull kind of thing. They want to rope in all the people who can’t think of a sandwich, and because getting people to offload effort is a great way to capture customers long term, it’s a demonstration of how the want to mentally neuter the public.
I solved this problem by eating the same three meals that I make myself every day.
The first step was recognizing that food is not entertainment, so as long as it meets my nutritional needs, it doesn't need to vary. Boredom doesn't enter into it, because it's not entertainment, the same way I don't get bored with taking a shower or getting dressed, or any of the other things I do in the course of the day. Most things we do are not entertainment, and when I made eating one of them, that solved many issues for me.
I both envy and pity your ability to do this at the same time. Food is such a large part of life and culture. To not experience the veritable cornucopia of flavours and textures out there feel like such a missed opportunity to me.
I may be a foody applying their slanted perspective at this, but there's a reason why we say the "variety is the spice of life". The saying works both ways.
It will never cease to amaze me how you can ask some people, "what do you want for lunch?" And their answer 90% of the time is, "I don't know, I haven't thought about it."
You eat three times a day. Every single day. Your whole. Entire. Life. Every single day, I wake up and make a plan that revolves around my three meals. The idea of not doing that makes about as much sense to me as wiping before you poop.
I dont know how ill be feeling before every meal. What if i planned on making pot pie for dinner, but came home and was hungry right then and didnt want to wait or put in the effort for pot pie?
Or what if i packed left over chicken in my lunch the night before and turns out by the time lunch rolls around, i wanted a burrito?
Or what if people dont have an appetite due to their medication and can literally forget to eat because their body never told them they needed nutrients?
Every single day, I wake up and make a plan that revolves around my three meals.
That is absolutely crazy to me. Unless it's a special occasion or I'm planning to cook a specific meal that requires shopping or prep, I don't even think about it until I start to get hungry. How would I know what I'll be hungry for?
I mean, for me it’s because I thought about it already. People are like “what do you want to eat for lunch” and I’ll be like “well I’ve been thinking about thai noodles all morning.” I’m basically always hungry and thinking about/looking forward to my next meal.
My friend’s grandma said “life is really hard. But, sometimes you get something really good to eat.” and I live by those words.
I just eat what I feel like eating in that moment. Though I don't keep a large stock of anything other than noodles and cereal so anything else I usually plan to eat the day I buy it (or sometimes for the day after). I also eat at different times depending on when I get hungry. Eating just isn't a very planned activity for me.
I unironically use my local LLM for this. Yeah I could pick my dinner. But it can check the nutrition profile of what I've eaten today and compensate for shortcomings.
And I have ADHD. So every stupid decision I have to make is a decision I can't make later. And if I'm not literally standing in the pantry I can't remember what's in there.
So yeah, it's not a bad use.
Edit: to all you people downvoting, what can I say? I've lost weight and am getting my cholesterol under control. It's more convenient and cheaper than having a nutritionist follow me around.
There are plenty of reasons to hate AI. We don't need to make up ridiculous scenarios about me reading that and actually eating mercury. Or even doing something stupid with normal food.
It's idea generation, not force feeding me while I'm strapped down.
145 Comments
CluckN@lemmy.world · 151 pts · 3d
My favorite ads are the ones that can easily be solved with minimal human interaction. Apple released an ad for their “rewind” feature where the Apple Watch records everyone’s audio and transcribes it. Their shining example is if the waitress talks too fast you can stare at your watch instead of asking her to repeat herself.
gastroglizzy@piefed.social · 157 pts · 3d
Reminds me of my favorite; Sam Altman suggested using Open AI to create a podcast based on your kids' interests to listen to on the way to school. The top comment was "Just talk to your kids."
CorrenteAlternata@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 44 pts · 3d
I mean, it could definitely be useful to listen to a podcast together with your kids, as a way of bonding. But... why not listen to a podcast made by humans? There are sooo many!
But yes, talk with your kids! the kids will talk nonstop if they see you're actually listening :)
CubitOom@infosec.pub · 32 pts · 2d
They key is to actually focus your attention on your kids instead of playing with "ai" instead of your kids.
CorrenteAlternata@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 2d
Yup! Listen to them, talk to them! Treat them as people!
bhamlin@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 2d
I am reminded of the scene in Parks and Rec where the schools need to be closed for a day and parents are freaking out. One asks, "you're saying I should keep my kids at home? Where I live?"
kestrel7_7@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2d
This was some parents during Covid though. People were so mad they had to spend time with their families 😭😂
NalosLayor@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 25 pts · 2d
Many years ago I worked for a small research company that was trying to find applications for voice assistant technology. This was before LLMs mind you, so even more useless than today. One of their projects was “make an ai that will talk to your grandparents and transcribe their stories”.
I told them that if my kids did that to me I’d just never speak to them again.
They tried anyway, and surprise — it went nowhere.
vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 2d
Iirc someone on the selhosted com recently built this exact thing. An AI tool that asks family members questions about their lives and transcribes it into a digital scrapbook thing.
Literally made me sick.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2d
"Use OpenAI to maintain an ongoing conversation with your elders so you don't have to" would be more honest.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d
Honestly, if it was more of an assistant that just sat alongside you and just did the recording, that would be dope as fuck.
I'm still sad that I don't have a lot of memories of my grandparents, partially just age, but somewhat because I was an ungrateful little shit. I sat and listened to them talk a lot when I was a kid, and what memories I still have are gold. A tool like that could have helped keep what I had rather than being left with what time and CTE haven't taken.
kestrel7_7@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d
Couldn’t one just use a laptop or phone to record a conversation with The Elders and then manually transcribe it later?
Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
One could, but I know my ADHD ass would never get around to transcribing them. The videos would be nice either way, tho.
CubitOom@infosec.pub · 20 pts · 2d
Hey surveillance device that I but no one else around me opted into, what was that list of specials that the waiter had memorized and just told me? I dont want to simply ask him to repeat it.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2d
That would require talking to a human, that's free, so is to be discouraged when possible.
darklamer@feddit.org · 5 pts · 2d
No, that's too stupid, that can't possibly be real.
bstix@feddit.dk · 5 pts · 2d
So, now the waitress can bring a pre-recorded presentation, play it a 10 times the speed, and the customer can read it from their watch. Saves everybody some time.
Or... They could open the menu card. Also on their watch if they insist.
djdarren@piefed.social · 2 pts · 2d
This is the tech we get when the people developing it are socially awkward.
Kanda@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 2d
If my 70% deaf parents had this, they wouldn't use it (much like their hearing aids)
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Ironically. When I was in the Nordics many moons ago and rang up the hostel with my beginner English to ask a question, the receptionist rattled off the answer at 300 words per minute, of which I understood about none. Upon me asking her to repeat, she did in fact repeat, at the same speed and with the same result. I thanked her, hung up the phone and to this day have no idea what she said.
You know what people with hearing problems do actively use when they can, especially in their non-native languages? Subtitles.
lime@feddit.nu · 135 pts · 3d
my favourite so far is volvo.
...like the kind of person exists that impulse buys a tv.
snooggums@piefed.world · 62 pts · 2d
Such a great example of the C O N S U M E mindset. Does the TV have the features the person wants? Is it the right size or is taking it home all that matters? Is a deal better than the regular list price for a TV that does what they need?
Nope, just 'can I spend money'?
BlindPenguin@piefed.social · 12 pts · 2d
What? Are you not interested in the most generic TV with the most basic feature set legally possible, for the measly price of a Ferrari? Heresy!
snooggums@piefed.world · 8 pts · 2d
It is half off the arbitrarily high price at that one particular overpriced store. What a deal!
Yaky@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 2d
Ironically, a generic TV with a basic set of features is expensive because it is not "smart" and cannot have streaming tie-ins, pre-installed "apps", or ads.
Karjalan@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2d
Also showing that the people who made the ad are out of touch with real people.
Who can just afford to buy a random TV on a whim with no research?
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 2d
I can, because I don't.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1d
Hey, I've been on the lookout for a cheap, tiny TV to use as a weather/status board for a long time now.
If you put a six to seven inch tv in front of me that has 1) display 2) HDMI 3) $50, then there's a really good chance I'll buy it right then. After considering if I'm still interested in the project.
ProfessorHoover@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 1d
What resolution do you need? Last time I checked 720p LCDs were about that price in that size.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1d
I'm "looking" for 6-12 inches. Something I can hang off to the side without being in the way.
I see something pop up occasionally but they usually have more than I want, like batteries, and get more expensive than the project is worth.
tmyakal@infosec.pub · 30 pts · 2d
There's absolutely a kind of person that does that. My ex's father bought three vacuum cleaners because they were on a good sale and he figured someone he knew would need a vacuum eventually.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2d
Did he give you a vacuum cleaner?
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 2d
For an absolutely massive price cut I could see it. If they were selling Henry Hoovers for £1.99 I would probably take 5 of them. Maybe see if I can strap them together for funny projects.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 2d
You mean like a
humanvacuum centipede, to see if it improves the sucking?HerbGrower@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 2d
Well if you word it like that I would have to try it.
lime@feddit.nu · 1 pts · 2d
most vacuum cleaners still fit in a car boot though
adarza@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2d
i could use one. does he do free shipping?
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2d
I would believe something like "hey AI, which of the massage parlors near me are really handjob stores?"
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 2d
By analysing reviews that might be possible too
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d
I actually suspect they're all handjob stores but I dunno.
kestrel7_7@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d
Look for places that specifically say massage therapy, and then avoid them because they don’t do handjobs.
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 2d
But will they do a good job?
DrPop@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2d
I have impulse bought a tv, at the store because it was marked down due to being returned after getting a bonus. I have no idea about just doing it randomly while out.
Zink@programming.dev · 6 pts · 2d
To be fair, a not insignificant portion of that ad's target audience is probably considering impulse leasing a Volvo and showing off all of its gadgets to their friends.
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2d
AHHHH IM GONNA CONSOOOOOM!!!11
fizzbang@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d
Maybe he needed a tv for the boot
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2d
Is GET YOUR FREE TVS still funny?
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 88 pts · 3d
Joe Rogan is their target demographic.
kboos1@lemmy.world · 64 pts · 3d
"Hey AI does my plant hate me?"
Pretty much sums up the average AI user.
NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social · 13 pts · 2d
To be fair, people were probably already Google searching this before AI was around.
Postimo@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 2d
AI definitely produces it's own particular brand of slop and the quantity that can be shat out is unparalleled, but it's worth reminding ourselves we haven't actually fallen that far from 12 page listicles like "Top 10 reasons your plan definitely hates you" filled with whatever the author happened to have to say.
kboos1@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d
The elementary school biology was pretty hard
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 63 pts · 3d
Hey Gemini, can you email my boss and make it look like I did my job?
Hey Gemini, text my wife
Hey Gemini, can you justify my behaviour to my wife and explain why it’s wrong she’s mad at me?
Hey Gemini, can you fake my resume and make me sound good for every job posting around me?
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 60 pts · 3d
Hey Gemini, experience this tragic irony for me
dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 2d
NOOOOOO!!!
ViscloReader@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2d
Hey Gemini, can you fuck this guy's wife?
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 2d
Please don’t Gemini :(
Avicenna@programming.dev · 3 pts · 2d
Step-gemini what are you doing?
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 2d
Certainly! Will order a pump master 5000 with vibrating dildo off of Amazon
boonhet@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 2d
I'll do it at a 100% discount compared to Gemini, where do I sign up and do I get a commemorative t shirt?
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 11 pts · 2d
To be fair, the job one is justified, it's useless to make a good resume and then everyone just scan it with AI automatically and never read it
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 2d
It’s more the rampant lying these days that I hate.
I have interviewed a ton of people who just straight up lie. And I put them on the spot on it.
kestrel7_7@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d
I’ll believe it, seems like most people lie on their resumes
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2d
It’s not most, or rather it wasn’t a few years ago when I was actively hiring.
I’ll be hiring again soon, so we’ll see.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d
And, they all respond by using Gemini.
Might as well not even be in the loop, just let the machines talk to each other.
dalekcaan@feddit.nl · 54 pts · 2d
Here at Meta, we believe AI will build connections between people
*Footage of people connecting by dancing in a field, having a coffee, and generally doing literally anything other than use AI*
Obituarykidney@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 2d
I've been seeing ads made by ai and they're even worse. Just saw one on YouTube for glasses "that change colour with just the touch of a finger!" And had ai video of smiling people at the beach tapping their lenses to change the glass colour multiple times, like the glass itself has rgb. Best part is, the fake product didn't even work consistently in the ai video and didn't change colour when they tapped sometimes.
I genuinely don't understand how an ad that's so obviously fake is tricking enough people to be worth spending an entire ad budget on.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 2d
It is created in a couple of minutes and if it scams even a single rube, they will make a profit.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
Scams actually work better when they have obvious mistakes. It helps weed out people that might figure out the scam before they've handed over their money, saving the scammers time and effort and making the scam more efficient.
DrSoap@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d
They're targeting a vulnerable population. Grifters are going to grift and things are easier than ever for them. If you make it too hard to return and most people keep your crap, especially if its $20 or less. It would be nice if they found grifts that didn't clog up our landfills and thrift stores but I guess this is better than all the identity theft. I also can't wait to see what this decades hot new MLM is. Its the selling courses on selling courses bs thats hot now.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d
I really wish people would start buying this drek with credit cards and doing charge backs. Let's see how long these fuckers last when they're paying the cost of product, shipping, and card processing fees.
Jk, I know the margins on this shit is massive
threeonefour@piefed.ca · 40 pts · 2d
AI CEOs in interviews: Our model is so advanced it scares me. It definitely has the ability to cure cancer, but it may also decide to kill all humans.
AI in their advertising: Our model can send emails and create shopping lists.
bhamlin@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2d
The difference is that one is for attracting money, and the other is written by lawyers.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 2d
But we won't let it do that while it generates nudes for pedophiles.
collapse_already@lemmy.ml · 23 pts · 3d
Only 6.9 killowatt hours to come up with that recommendation. A bargain.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 2d
Thanks to uBlock Origin, I don't see any ads!
-^this message is sponsored by uBlock Origin^
Agent641@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2d
Raid: Shadow Legends
Couldn't block that one, could ya bub?
glitchdx@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
there's sponsorblock for youtube, so I don't see most of those either.
rmuk@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 1d
Just because you don't see something online, doesn't mean something online can't see you. That's a major worry, or at least it should be, unless you're using today's sponsor, Incogni...
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 2d
There’s people still not using adblockers and they get ai generated ads about ai shoved down their throats. Why are you doing this to yourselves?
smiletolerantly@awful.systems · 14 pts · 2d
Related, but the amount of tech and/or privacy adjacent youtubers I have seen complain about ads, about what they're doing to be less susceptible, how this or that change is TOO much, and so on if baffling. JUST USE AN ADBLOCKER. There's always one comment pointing that out, with a derailed conversation below, but most of the comments will be "actually, if you repeatedly close then reopen a YouTube video for 10-15 times, it will not show the ad on the next open!" with a million "don't tell, now Google is gonna patch!" replies. I wish I was joking.
If you don't use an Adblocker, get one, NOW. It takes 30s. If you think "it's not that bad", install it anyways and give it a try for a week. Disable it. See if it's really "not that bad", lmao.
Install them on your parents' devices. Your grandparents'. Siblings. Friends.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2d
I was using my mom's computer the other day and I couldn't figure out why I wasn't seeing any ads on her browser. Then I remembered that I had installed uBlock origin for her. I love when past me does current me a solid. I've also told her that she can go on Faceborg if she wants but I will not help her with it in any way (I can't since I haven't been on it since 2008). She tells people I "refuse to let her use it" which is not strictly accurate but I feel pride anyway when she says that.
nummy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
I like to think of "parents and tech" as "kids and toys". They don't understand it, they just want to use it and enjoy it. And they certainly don't care what problematic ethics are involved. So just like with kids, we have to be more careful and caring. And we definitely don't want to overwhelm them with too much information.
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 6 pts · 2d
-- Them, probably
nummy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2d
Is uBlock Origin still the king? Been using it since it came out and I genuinely don't understand the ads problem. Sponsorblock is also a huge help.
https://ublockorigin.com/ https://sponsor.ajay.app/
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 2d
AdNauseam takes a more actively hostile approach to advertising. IIRC Google took it off their plugin platform because they consider it malicious. Which I suppose it is, towards ads.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 2d
Pretty much, though it does not work on most Chromium browsers anymore because of Manifest V3.
On Firefox on the other hand, it is king!
Combined with Privacy Badger to block tracking.
kestrel7_7@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d
defrostedLasagna4921@piefed.zip · 18 pts · 2d
They're also targeting students with the ads, which tells me that it's encouraging them to cheat.
I use uBlock Origin btw. I only see ads when my someone is watching TV or if I go to random websites in the Tor browser.
FatVegan@leminal.space · 9 pts · 2d
My girlfriends child is learning in school how to use chatgpt. They are heavily encouraged to use it to control their own text and whatever. She's 8. She's leqrning to use a tool ahe will never ever be allowed to in the future.
defrostedLasagna4921@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 1d
That is not good, especially at that age where the brain would be developing rapidly. This is the time where she really needs to use her brain to process information.
cRazi_man@europe.pub · 5 pts · 1d
You guys watch TV?
defrostedLasagna4921@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 1d
Mostly just older people I see watch TV.
cloudshouter@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1d
Yeah, it’s what you hook up your stuff too.
Oh, do you mean actual broadcast?
EndOfLine@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2d
I've been seeing ChatGPT ads recently that, I think, are trying to position their AI as something old lonely people can talk to when they have nobody else in their lives. It's really quite sad.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2d
I'm old and alone, but there's no fucking way I'm going to talk a machine. Because, then I'd be old, alone, AND pitiful.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 2d
Hey here youre talking to real people at least!
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 6 pts · 2d
... probably.
then_three_more@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d
You can always talk to us lemmings
Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 2d
I heard a podcast (maybe This American Life) that spent time with a woman out in the sticks, physically no longer able to be active, all kids many hours away, who was given one of these by her local fire department. She had been scoring lower and lower on cognitive tests for several years, and after getting this thing she reversed that trend. It was creepy, and her kids didn't like it, but it was there and her kids were not, and it clearly had improved her quality of life. It's sad she didn't have human connections in her daily life, but given her circumstances, the thing had upside.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
Also sad is this is one of the few things ChatGPT would actually be good at. It's basically what it was designed for.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 17 pts · 2d
It might be they're not trying anymore.
All the common AI tasks that by end-users and small businesses can be done better by local software rather than through compute on a hyperscale platform. The only reason to need big AI is for large-scale projects. They're still selling compute at a huge loss, and their profits are dwarfed by their expenses.
(Some argue the expenses are due to the massive buildout, which is reaching a capability point of diminishing returns. But even the running expenses outweigh the profits, even with government contracts.)
You know, like controlling armies of killer drones, or processing mass surveillance data to find dissidents that are an actual threat. Or doing cyber-ops on a rival nation.
I think that is why the stock market is still investing in big AI, not because we want better slop, but because they want garrison large populations and wreck rival societies.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2d
Only a fool would think AI data centers are to help Timmy with an essay, Gertrude decide on a gift for her grandkids or Cameron the moron write a professional response at work that doesn't sound like it was written by 6th grader...
...it's all about mass surveillance. Always has been.
shiftymccool@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 23h
That and control. It used to be done by keeping the common folk illiterate. Now they're crippling our ability to think entirely. Much easier that way to control the complacent, ignorant masses
lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2d
I can write my own Grade 8 essays, thank you very much.
One time I successfully used an AI to troubleshoot a sound driver problem in Linux. It was maybe a little faster than casting about on stack exchange. I had to prompt it like 30 times though because it kept being confidently wrong. I didn't continue to use it.
Maybe there are people out there who need something to suggest "sandwich". You buy water from the water company because you wouldn't have water without them. I would be embarrassed to shop from a company that claims to sell "intelligence"
Evotech@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
I used Claude terminal and it immediately identified that i had a service that constantly sent small packets to my headset and since all packets have to use the smallest ones it was crackling sometimes due to latency
Fized that and set the minimum to a reasonable amount
It had its uses
Tetragrade@leminal.space · 13 pts · 2d
Grok is this funny
theparadox@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d
Meanwhile I ask Gemini "Hey Gemini, can this Google product do X?"
It responds "Here is a list of features for Google's Product:
... Does W! Does X! Does Y! ...
Me: clicks source for listed feature X... gets sent to post on Product's support forum: "Can Product do X?" "No, it can't do X."
Thanks Gemini!
cloudshouter@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 1d
Like in the early 2000s when certain websites would copy paste a half a dictionary onto the site description so google would put them in every search result despite not being relevant.
cryptix@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 2d
Today's children would wonder how their grandparents lived without cellphone. Tomorrows children are going to think how we get anything done without AI.
JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 1d
I could live without a cellphone. But since AI got popular, it isn't as easy to keep up at some subjects as it was before (since everybody at our highschool cheated with AI - at least I did most of the non-annoying stuff myself), which means I had to do more work.
5318008@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1d
Factually, using AI in your education means you get less value out of that education. In every math class ever, you've probably heard some version of,
If you use AI to do a problem, you're training your ability to do something that everyone else on the planet can do. If you force yourself to do it, you're training your ability to actually think.
You actually WON'T have to do more work in the long run. Think of it as an investment. If you spend the time learning it now, properly, so that you actually understand it, then every test that your study for, for the rest of your life, will be easier, and you'll get higher grades. Measurably.
https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/
https://www.media.mit.edu/articles/ai-s-impact-on-cognitive-ability-mit-study-reveals-more-troubling-data/
Keep it up.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
That work is way more valuable than an empty grade. You are going to have very useful advantages over the ones using chatbots to cheat.
raven55six@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2d
Some of these ads actually makes me think that artificial intelligence is for the naturally dumb.
umbraroze@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 1d
There was some AI ad where someone pointed their camera to their messy shelf and were like "Hey, how do I clean up my shelf?" and the AI was like "try rearranging the smaller items first" and about a billion people went "no shit".
iocase@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1d
Every AI bubble pump slop article is like
Say: “i'm alive“
AI: "I'm alive"
😱😱😱😱😱
Or
Hack this company plz
technically hacks that company after setting $17.8 million on fire
😱😱😱😱😱
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d
stupid is growing faster than ever
forkDestroyer@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 1d
The best are when they have the sweet old grandmas asking it how to cook.
umbraroze@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 1d
Yeah, sweet old grandmas already know how to cook, they don't need AIs.
One day, I need to recreate a dish my late grandma did. Probably simple, but very nostalgic at personal level. I don't think AIs are much help here.
DrSoap@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Or the ones where the knitting grandmas are asking it for advice. Are you kidding me? First off Gemini is the most shit thing I've ever seen when it comes to knitting/crocheting. Second, at that age, either you're a repository for the craft already or you are looking for community and will be knitting aside these walking yarn encyclopedias in a knitting circle.
gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org · 3 pts · 1d
speak for yourself. chatgpt helped me program a medium-complexity task yesterday within ~3 hours which would have taken me about 1-2 weeks otherwise, i fear. especially, it's really convenient because when you just don't know some technical term, you can just describe what you mean and it will give you the correct keyword, while googling for that kind of information is difficult since you don't even know where to start.
cloudshouter@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1d
It’s a push-pull kind of thing. They want to rope in all the people who can’t think of a sandwich, and because getting people to offload effort is a great way to capture customers long term, it’s a demonstration of how the want to mentally neuter the public.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br · 2 pts · 3d
Tbh, knowing what to eat if maybe one of the hardest jobs a human can do.
Edit: you people are taking this comment way to seriously
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2d
I solved this problem by eating the same three meals that I make myself every day.
The first step was recognizing that food is not entertainment, so as long as it meets my nutritional needs, it doesn't need to vary. Boredom doesn't enter into it, because it's not entertainment, the same way I don't get bored with taking a shower or getting dressed, or any of the other things I do in the course of the day. Most things we do are not entertainment, and when I made eating one of them, that solved many issues for me.
boonhet@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 2d
Yeah I'd off myself after day 4
ZC3rr0r@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 2d
I both envy and pity your ability to do this at the same time. Food is such a large part of life and culture. To not experience the veritable cornucopia of flavours and textures out there feel like such a missed opportunity to me.
I may be a foody applying their slanted perspective at this, but there's a reason why we say the "variety is the spice of life". The saying works both ways.
kestrel7_7@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d
Wow, OK. Huge flex. All that stuff is super boring to me 😂😂
gastroglizzy@piefed.social · 7 pts · 3d
It will never cease to amaze me how you can ask some people, "what do you want for lunch?" And their answer 90% of the time is, "I don't know, I haven't thought about it."
You eat three times a day. Every single day. Your whole. Entire. Life. Every single day, I wake up and make a plan that revolves around my three meals. The idea of not doing that makes about as much sense to me as wiping before you poop.
Sc00ter@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 3d
I dont know how ill be feeling before every meal. What if i planned on making pot pie for dinner, but came home and was hungry right then and didnt want to wait or put in the effort for pot pie?
Or what if i packed left over chicken in my lunch the night before and turns out by the time lunch rolls around, i wanted a burrito?
Or what if people dont have an appetite due to their medication and can literally forget to eat because their body never told them they needed nutrients?
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 4 pts · 2d
That's because i'il most probably change idea on what i'd like to eat in a 10 hour span
Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 2d
I don't care what I eat, nor do I do it 3 times a day. I do it to avoid the consequences.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2d
That is absolutely crazy to me. Unless it's a special occasion or I'm planning to cook a specific meal that requires shopping or prep, I don't even think about it until I start to get hungry. How would I know what I'll be hungry for?
kestrel7_7@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d
I mean, for me it’s because I thought about it already. People are like “what do you want to eat for lunch” and I’ll be like “well I’ve been thinking about thai noodles all morning.” I’m basically always hungry and thinking about/looking forward to my next meal.
My friend’s grandma said “life is really hard. But, sometimes you get something really good to eat.” and I live by those words.
orenj@leminal.space · 2 pts · 2d
Incorrect, sometimes its barely one a day
LwL@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d
I just eat what I feel like eating in that moment. Though I don't keep a large stock of anything other than noodles and cereal so anything else I usually plan to eat the day I buy it (or sometimes for the day after). I also eat at different times depending on when I get hungry. Eating just isn't a very planned activity for me.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · -1 pts · 2d
This borders on mental illness, IMO. Focused on food to a bit of an unhealthy degree.
kestrel7_7@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d
This feels like completely normal human behavior to me, but go off.
Some people are just more passionate about food than others, same as some people are more passionate about music (or whatever) than others.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 1 pts · 2d
What a blessed live you must have if that's the hardest thing you do...
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d
I unironically use my local LLM for this. Yeah I could pick my dinner. But it can check the nutrition profile of what I've eaten today and compensate for shortcomings.
And I have ADHD. So every stupid decision I have to make is a decision I can't make later. And if I'm not literally standing in the pantry I can't remember what's in there.
So yeah, it's not a bad use.
Edit: to all you people downvoting, what can I say? I've lost weight and am getting my cholesterol under control. It's more convenient and cheaper than having a nutritionist follow me around.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d
I don’t think “bad” would be the preferred descriptor of the criticisms.
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2d
What model are you running? And any MCP server youre using with it?
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d
Cronometer mcp. And I'm running a qwen model that fits on my old 8gb 1070.
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2d
You really don't need a big model. Small models with tool calling is all you really need.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 2d
Until it hallucinates and you end up needing surgery.
Have you tried adding mercury to your soup? It adds all the iron you need to be healthy for the rest of your life!
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d
There are plenty of reasons to hate AI. We don't need to make up ridiculous scenarios about me reading that and actually eating mercury. Or even doing something stupid with normal food.
It's idea generation, not force feeding me while I'm strapped down.
stardustpathsofglory@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 19h