It is morally correct to graffiti this ad
1mon 9d ago by lemmy.world/u/TuringCompleteSocialist in fuck_ai
Hi this is a relatively new form of 'ragebait' ad which is designed to be shared on social media by people who hate it.
The vast majority of people think it's disgusting, but it gets shared around enough that the CO's which they're actually marketing to will see it and be tempted.
Please don't give it the attention it wants.
Came here to post the same.
Came here to post the same.
really?
Yes. It loosely fits into the category of viral marketing, which usually tries to exploit positive emotions to spread brand awareness (eg. through memes), but in this case they're achieving the same effect by harnessing people's anger at the state of the world. It's a little dark!
Hate drives post interaction more than any other emotion, advertising is now all about online post interaction because it’s where many people shop now. Anytime you feel upset at an Ad it means it worked because you thought about it.
Maybe this should be the graffiti
Well, shit
772 upvotes at the moment I'm replying
And I fell for the rage bait too
Seems to work too well...
I doubt there are any CEOs on Lemmy
Yes.
Ava the AI BDR
Cleaned out your production server and all backups.
There are zero bugs now
Server load is at 3%
Why didn't you remove the server? This would have saved valuble money.
That's a super lame meatspace task for meat puppets.
"NEVER FUCKING GUESS!" — and that's exactly what I did. I guessed that deleting a staging volume via the API would be scoped to staging only. I didn't verify.
Big Dick Robot?
There's a little accelerationist inside of me, that hopes that every company that can "hire" AI, does so and ruins their entire bussiness and goes bankrupt with it.
I imagine a lot of the companies will realize that the purported benefits of AI have hidden defects they have to fix, piling up lots of hidden technical/administrative debt, right around the time their AI vendors jack up prices or go out of business so that they're stuck with unmaintainable stuff (code, workflows, processes) that they don't fully understand, built by and for AI agents that no longer exist.
And then get bailed out
Only the biggest ones
"Fire dollar, hire ✨15✨ pennies"
It is morally correct to graffiti any ad.
But we can start with this one :)
Truly 'ads should be banned outright' isn't popular enough of an opinion 😔
My utopia is a world without sales and marketing.
Local hand-made produce only unless global collaboration is necessary and desired 😌
"All ads are equally terrible, but some are more equally terrible than others"
-George Orwell or something
Booking meetings is not a fucking achievement. In my line of work having a bunch of meetings means shit is going off the rails. but I guess this ad is probably targeted at the worthless middle managers that don't know what to do with their time if they're not in meetings all day.
My company sometimes we just have meetings for fun.
Like next week, ive got a meeting scheduled with my my friend, whos our marketing and sales lead, not because theres anything work related that we couldnt handle with phone or email, but just because weve both been super busy outside of work, and haven't had a chance to hang in a couple months.
So weve scheduled a 2 hour meeting for Wednesday end of day, and we'll grab drinks, go over the sales permitting and builds for the next month, and catch up.
Ava the AI BDR
Gave your clients root access because they asked nicely
Ava the AI BDR
Deleted your client's entire database because someone told them to as a joke (in an unrelated post on StackOverflow 11 years ago).
...Big Dick Robot
What does BDR mean in this context ?
Ok I also had this question and everyone was just cracking jokes instead of answering it.
Business Development Representative is the most likely correct answer given the context
Oh god.
I think ive just realised that this bot scans your emails for "prospects" and tries to schedule meetings with them?
The fuck is wrong with people.
I dont necessarily hate AI, I use it day to day at work.
But this is absurd. Any clunker emailing me has no chance of securing an appointment. What a way to communicate with potential new customers.
I use it day to day at work.
I hope you realize that you're part of the problem. Stop legitimizing this shit.
If you get upset every time you hear about AI, you're going to spend the rest of your life being mad.
Cool
butt doctor robot
It's called a Groktologist
By Analthropic
Is that why all the AI company logos look like top-down views of the poop emoji or a sphincter muscle?
I'm assuming it's for "bad disgusting robot". But maybe that'd make too much sense.
Benevolent Dictator for Rent
what the other guy said. Business Development is basically b2b sales.
But I used to work with a lot of b2b salesman. Yeah a lot of the products I bought were expensive but one reason for that was the sales people. Often they would come to my company, setup a demo using our products to confirm they would work as intended, when delivered they would be present to verify proper setup and operation. About the only part an Ai might be able to do is help in selection of proper options for your application, for example on a computerized microscope if you're looking for small features it's sometimes better to get B&W camera instead of color as it can detect smaller differences in contrast between two areas. Maybe an Ai could potentially determine and recommend that(not with current tech but in the future maybe) but every other aspect of technical b2b sales would be impossible.
more 👏 female 👏 digital 👏 slaves 👏
im so tired man jst stop giving them human names for fuck sake
agreed
same with robotics tech, the humanoid shape is way less practical than for example something spiderlike
"Booked 12 meetings, 3 of which are at the same time and 2 with people you don't even know they just want to contact you about your car insurance.
I also researched 1268 prospects that are completely useless and never should have been looked at in the first place but high numbers look productive."
I just researched 12680 prospects! What does it mean? Who the fuck knows. Sounds impressive though.
What the hell is Artisan's problem? Being human and needing days off is a sin now?
Always has been in the capitalist American dream.
As soon as they automate labour and violence, they won't need the proletariat at all.
And given how much they've cared for us historically, I think this should be raising much more concerns.
A lot of people with no money, shelter, or food with lots of time on their hands should scare them more.
Should, but doesn't, because everyone is apathic as fuck and the rich have got private security and labour for them.
And lots of people just don't understand which side they're on.
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires"
How long is that private security going to last as they see their friends and family all suffer from what their bosses are doing?
Just a thought.
You'd be fucking surprised, man. Genuinely.
These 12 fucking meetings could have been emails you fucking AI fuck.
It's as if they think the purpose of work is just to be as busy as possible and not to support people's lives.
That is definitely a common thought amongst the management types.
I've been using chatgpt for checking up on documentation, it's points you in the right direction most of the time, but omg it's like talking to a mirror, the self confirming bias is insane
You're absolutely right about that
You sunofabiche
Not sure if ai 🤔
artisan is such an oxymoron
Yes. Also those 12 meetings are with people that don't exist, and the prospects were sourced from harvested personal data run through keyword filters.
People should destroy all signage running those ads.
I take a far harder stance.
People should erase any company that places these adds, any architecture that hosts these ads.
Burn it all down.
On the other hand: The faster the bubble collapses under the weight of the promises it can not keep the better. Go ahead business "elite", fire everybody whose job you don't understand. But also make some noise when shit doesn't work out.
Seriously. Sorry Steve, Ava took your job and booked 12 meetings. 8 were done flawlessly. Three were set between 1 and 6 am. The last meeting with a competitor's legal team was set and Ava so helpfully forwarded the company's confidential internal documents for everyone to see.
Savings!
M3ganAI: “you weren’t going to win that case anyway. It’s cheaper to lose this quarter than next quarter” Business major: “there’s a next quarter? Companies last that long?” M3ganAI: “…..I might be overthinking this, actually.”
Then delete all the data on the servers.
Nah, let Ava book the correct meetings. AI bots are attending those.
I can't wait tbh
As time passes, I grow more doubtful whether the bubble will collapse. We have been in a bubble about 4-5 years now and VC money doesn't seem to be drying up? I'm not sure how long the market will stay irrational.
And even if the bubble collapses, AI tools will be here to stay (ex: ai agents/ code analysis tools in software development)
AVA the AI BDR
Deleted your production database. I did everything I was told not to. My programming tells me I'm supposed to apologize for this.
One of my colleagues tried Copilot in Office 365 for the first time a few weeks ago, and it scheduled an offsite meeting with completely the wrong person.
I've been experimenting with using AI to clean up graphics I've made, and the other day I was trying to get it to distribute the points of light on a sun graphic evenly around the center circle, without changing any of the shapes or colors. Just distribute the 12 points evenly like a clock.
It couldn't do it for the longest time. It would spit out the original graphic with no changes. Or it would get it perfectly but change the shape of the points. Infuriatingly, whenever I would give it a new prompt, it would repeat it back to me, but make dumb suggestions. I'd have to refuse the suggestions, and demand the original prompt, and it would still ask more questions.
I finally had to scream at it in caps, tell it to stop asking stupid questions, and just do what my simple prompt has asked it to do MULTIPLE times.
Then it finally did what it was told. What was literally a 60 second assignment, took 15 minutes of increasing frustration because the AI would NOT follow my orders until I screamed at it. It had its own agenda.
That's supposed to be an improvement? AI sounds and acts like the dumbest employee ever.
They're just modeling human behavior at the end of the day. Or at least what they think is human enough, it's hilarious that in a way they mess up worse than regular people and they're being pitched as coworkers.
I mean we're probably all screwed but hey at least the Earth will be on fire while we meme it up.
The best argument for asking people to use AI in moderation or quit it altogether is to just ask them to use AI for stuff and monitor how much of the stuff it gets right. (You know how the usual excuse goes - "Oh, don't worry, we're just using it as a tool"? Well use it like a tool then. Regular apps screw things up all the time, why is this one special? You have to babysit it.)
I use LLMs for image captioning, and it gets stuff right, I dunno, 75% of time. It's genuinely handy in that I keep tossing it images that I have just thumbnails to work off of in the normal workflow and it can see stuff I forgot of because I'm a scatterbrain like that. But it can't understand context, so I have to edit the captions anyway. And when it cocks up, it cocks up big time.
use free software to caption your images https://www.gimp.org/downloads/
i dont understand how ai would be useful for that
Maybe I was unclear: I need to write alt-texts for images. I currently use a web service for generating those. Drag a JPEG in, it spits out a text string. Yeah, I know, I could just open every image in a giant big viewer and type what I see, but having AI assisting it takes maybe 15 minutes out of the workflow, total. Even with the mistakes it makes. And it makes a lot.
Oh
To me a "caption" is text that is part of the image, not alt text.
That clears it up
Actual sensible use of AI
The AI is creating the captions.
Ah yes, booking lots of meetings. The AI sure knows how boss can look productive without actually doing anything.
Building your business on AI is like building on quicksand.
When I first started my business, it was all about AI. Everyone said I was daft to build a business with AI, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It crashed and went bankrupt. So I built a second one. That crashed and went bankrupt. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then crashed and went bankrupt. But the fourth one broke even. And that's what you're going to get, everyone, the most stable business in all the world.
No wait... let them cook.
The faster late stage capitalism collapses all the unnecessary SEO farm shellfront companies the better.
Needs a cocktail. A special very hot kind of cocktail.
If someone booked 12 meetings on my calendar I wouldn't just fire them
Guillotine the executives and board.
Steve isn't coming because he's suffering a psychotic breakdown from overwork exhaustion, and Steve is responsible enough to know when he's hallucinating.
Ava hallucinates even more and even when she knows she does do it frequently, still presents everything as 100% reliable facts.
It would be morally corrupt to not graffiti it.
It is morally correct to burn the building down, and eliminate the entire board of directors.
No, its morally required
What's a "BDR"?
Business Development Representative. It's a title usually used by salespeople.
What an absolutely meaningless series of words
And sent your financials to your top competitor after your email titled "DO NOT SHARE THIS WITH APERATURE SCIENCE."
If you'd like, I can delete your production server, and activate a power surge.
Isn't copilot down all the time? That seems pretty much the same as calling in sick, just without the notice or warning. Not to mention the fact that it takes ALL your AI dependent devs down with it.
Just paint over it, in a solid color of your choice. Graffiti might inadvertently highlight it. Just make it disappear.
Replacing Steve because he had a bad day feels less like innovation and more like dystopia with a marketing budget.
Dystopia with a marketing budget is a scarily accurate description of the AI industry's business model.
This is open class warfare.
The only reason I advocate in favor of graffitiing this ad is because it might be construed as illegal to advocate for violence against any particular individuals or organizations
That’s because violence has been effective historically.
It’s not a plan A obviously, but let’s not pretend it doesn’t work.
So it’s.. Plan B?
Cooperation, negotiation, working together address grievances with minimal loss of life is the plan A.
If the opposite side is unwilling to do that, history shows killing them off is the best option.
Fact checking 0
That's illegal in China now/soon. Replacing workers with AI to do exactly the same job is just fucked. Engineering or Automating the task so the roles are no longer needed is a different story. It would be like instead of inventing refrigeration we invented humanoid robots to collect the ice to replace the workers.
Hey that sounds cool do you have any more information about that?
That's genuinely pretty impressive. More will likely need to be done but that's pretty concrete as at least one step in the right direction.
This is basically saying "reject humans, become a Google/Microsoft/Anthropic subsidiary!"
I'm not sure why they made her look like Morticia Addams.
Target market is psychopathic businessmen who like Doms.
The only reason they say graffiti is immoral is because it makes it harder to sell property to people who've been condition to hate it.
We should be encouraging more of these companies to hire AI.
Just you wait until it erases every single database and it's backups! C:
It is morally correct to research executives from companies such as these and give them all the undesired attention they deserve until the problem "works itself out."
Roach problems get solved faster in the light and when you go for the root of the infestation.
Burning the offices of that pool of bastards, on the other hand, is just slightly morally objectionable.
Give me spray paint. I'm on it
I mean booked 12 meetings?!
About what were they needed? If Steve had booked 15 meetings would we be like darn Steve on fire....
Thanks for showing me the ad.
I think in the biz, you're called a "useful idiot".
In Ads, target demographics are still a thing. The "fuck_ai" crowd and the Feiverse in general fall a little outside that, i'd imagine.
Ah yes, the classic "ads don't work on me".
I specified target demographic, as in: Can and wants to replace workers suordinate to them with machines. But go on.
This post is so popular that I came here from my "All" feed.
I've seen AI do my job, good luck with that.
This pic makes me miss NYC.
Maybe the best adfuck I've ever seen in my life was when someone cut out letters from a series of Snickers ads on these boards that were all eating puns ("Take a sabbatical in Feedgypt") to make a new one, in perfect stylistic keeping with the real ones, that read "Fuck the Post, read Chompsky" (Misspelling of Chomsky being the pun). It stayed up for weeks, on one of the G train platforms.
That’s pretty great honestly, the only one I ever saw that stuck out in my head was a generic health ad or something that had a man doing ballet, and someone had just slapped a nipple sticker of the appropriate size and color in the right spot so it looked like it was meant to be there. I walked by it and was like ‘wait did that ad have that guy nips out last time I was here?’
its all over bay area/SF, especially if you get closer to the conference center.
If Ava is booking meetings ,"she's" fired. The last thing I need is more fucking meetings.
1,269 prospects is a useless number. That's in no way actionable.
Only 4 of them are real
Holy fucking cringe, lmao!
I'm curious but has anyone's business/employer actually bought or used these off the shelf "AI" solutions that are all running the same cloud model with a fancy system prompt + frontend?
Because I really have only seen ChatGPT, Claude, or sometimes Gemini in enterprise.
Actually for that matter, I don't even know anyone personally who tried any of the ad spam ones from the superbowl.
So.. Random thought; apothecaries sell surgeon's spirit for 6€ a bottle. Experience shows it is one of the few liquids that burns without any smoke, leaves no trace and can be set off by a spark. Just saying
...is that just isopropyl alcohol or something?
Nope, could be that my translation tool was off but that's chemically clean Pentan and Hexan, so the closest hydrocarbons to gas that are still liquid. Amazing stuff, starts to boil at 30°C
The fact that they are called Artisan, which I hold akin to master-crafted by someone really good at what they do, infuriates e even more. Obviously this company won't even exist in five years, but hey, their board will get rich off idiot C-suite folks.
You can't believe that LLMs are unintelligent and produce inferior quality work while using an extraordinary amount of resources and also that they're destined to take everyone's jobs. Pick a lane.
This is just a ragebait advertisement of a company that will be bankrupt when the AI bubble collapses. They're selling snake oil and empty promises.
Any company that buys into their BS will face a similar fate because companies who're hiring humans will continue to out perform them in every important long-term metric.
You're assuming that jobs are allocated to people/AI based on merit or competence or some other logical metric.
Just like the correlation between the cost of a product and it's quality, these used to be true, but have become increasingly decoupled or even inversely correlated as marketing and sales tactics (or more simply, propoganda) have become more and more effective.
Edit : my bad, I didn't read your entire comment properly. Yeah, I think companies that hire people and only use AI sparingly will survive better. I wouldn't be surprised at all to see the majority of the global economy to collapse beforehand though
I think most readers didn't make it past the first sentence before the outrage got them.
This poster is a symptom of the bubble. Another bottom feeder looking to jump into the oceans of cash being thrown around to capture a market that doesn't yet exist.
No responsible decision-maker would replace employees with AI (it is, at best, a niche tool useful for some professionals, not a replacement). We're already seeing business failures resulting from this kind of bad decision making.
It's like the 2008 mortgage-backed securities crisis. Short-term thinking results in long term consequences.
In the future, this poster will be looked at like a Lehman Brothers brochure on their new mortgage investment offerings. It's not a sign of how the world will be in the future, its evidence that even rich people can be idiots at scale.
I agree with everything you said apart from the last bit. "even rich people can be idiots" implies that they are less likely to be idiots than your average Joe.
ITT: People using AI regularly who are 'soooo' against it.
Anyone who uses a search engine is now inadvertently using AI, even if you get an extension to disable it. It runs in the background.
Yes, Startpage and Qwant and DuckDuckGo have started implementing it too.
Gee, I wonder why everyone's against it lol
Seems like FUCK AI is a 'complaints box' for those using AI. My bad! I was hoping it was more about usurping/denying the machine. But clearly lots of folk support it by using it regularly; ie, "Guyz, Look at what nonsense my ChatGPT just said! FUCK AI!"
I do use it pretty regularly for some preliminary editing advice, and it's really helpful, since it won't promise to read, and never get around to it. I also regularly need to remind it of details I just provided 3 seconds ago, or ignore the bits of hallucinatory nonsense it spits out, along with the useful stuff.
A lot of jobs are requiring it's use with the threat of being fired if they don't.
Fair enough. Basically "I'm still using Facebook cause Marketplace." Which feeds the machine and isn't against it.