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[–] QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 hours ago

Astrid has like 3/10 music but 10/10 tweets. I love her so much

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 11 points 1 day ago

Glue pizza?

[–] Rothe@piefed.social 28 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Where are you guys seeing all these ads? Do you not have adblockers?

[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

I'm so used to hard adblock everything, no ai google - that one time i opened adblockless browser and tried googling something instantly turned into that Joe Pesci meme - so many ads - KILL IT WITH FIRE

[–] irelephant@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

Watching live TV in this day and age is insane tbh. That's just my opinion

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Sure thing, you want to make a sandwich. What a fun idea to put a twist on a longstanding lunch tradition! I like the way you think! Would you like me to help pull together an organized list of ideas for some delicious breaded creations?

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At a gas station i saw a sandwich that said "inspired by AI" we're getting dumber every day

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 minutes ago

What was in it

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 6 points 1 day ago

Talkie Toaster created. Red Dwarf timeline confirmed.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Oh no I put too much sugar in my sauce. Time to make some dogshit passata cookies instead

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 78 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

They always seem to have bought ad time without any real idea what to pitch. One would have thought that'd be a step in the process but apparently not.

It can summarise your text messages!
Oh, yes, because that's an insurmountable amount of text to read, please hold my hand through this difficult time.

[–] Prox@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My favorite is this combo of AI "benefits":

  1. Create fully-written emails from a few simple bullet points!
  2. Summarize long emails into simple bullet points!
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[–] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 39 points 2 days ago

AI is getting billions in investment. Every single company out there is pushing employees to use it. Most brands have OKRs of shoving AI into their services.

And yet a chat box, removing objects in pictures or generating mediocre images is all they ever achieve.

Nobody goes beyond that. It's always the same as ChatGPT but with a modified system prompt. It's always image generation. Oh look we spent half of the quarter's budget but now our website displays an AI generated summary on top of the already easy to read information!

Which to me is irrefutable proof that AI is a useless money sink. Every company out there battling to grab your attention with AI, billions of dollars, market pressure and it's still useless?

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Me: What should I have for lunch?

AI: Have you ever tried pinecone jam and barbequed hammers?

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[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 100 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

guy 1: did you remember my birthday?

guy 2: whispers hey siri what’s this guys birthday

siri: it’s october 27th

guy 2: your birthday is october 27th

guy 1: wow you remembered!

*I AM a geeenius*

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 66 points 2 days ago (7 children)

These versions of the ads are so cringe to me.

“Help me lie to people’s faces” is a terrible ad campaign.

The Apple one with that last of us actress is especially cringe as she greets him and just lies to his face about how could she not remember. I need help remembering names, but that’s not what the ad was showing.

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[–] meejle@lemmy.world 79 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The one where he's making gochujang pasta sauce and puts too much sugar in, and Gemini is like "let's turn it into cookies!"

OK but what is he going to have on his pasta? It solved the problem of wasting the ingredients but not, like, the main problem.

[–] Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wait... gochujang is Korean spicy red pepper paste. Gemini suggested turning it into cookies?

Sounds to me like it created more problems than it solved.

[–] meejle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Apparently gochujang caramel cookies are a thing! I googled when I wrote my first comment because it did sound like it might have been a fever dream. 😄

https://www.beyondkimchee.com/gochujang-caramel-cookies

[–] Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 2 points 21 hours ago

Looks like they might not be terrible. They use a tiny amount of gochujang, though. I'd expect pasta sauce to use a lot more. I suppose he could be making a massive batch of cookies.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 44 points 2 days ago

Woah there, you're talking like a guy who has never had pasta a la cookies

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 52 points 2 days ago (10 children)

you may laugh but that is the end goal. we're already seeing this in people who are overreliant on AI: you get used to off-loading your brain activity so much that you need to consult AI for the most basic shit. like remembering to eat, or calculating 4+10.

[–] Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago

Good question! This reminds me somewhat of the great and excellent Adolf Hitler, who would distribute sandwiches to the masses. Let's clone him! Give your money to your local fascist cult!

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

@Grok: I don't know but here's a white supremacist conspiracy theory stated as fact, straight from Elon's ketamine brain

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[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

To be fair, the users they target really are bumbling idiots who need this.

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[–] Thorry@feddit.org 43 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Or the: "Hey Gemini move my 4 o clock"

First of all, that's as easy as dragging the appointment to a different place in the calendar which takes less time and shows you what other stuff you have going on. Second of all, rude! Don't just move the appointment. At least call or ping me on whatever chat system we both use. Not because it's required, but it's good to treat other people as actual human beings instead of you being a Karen Main Character. Third of all, move it where? When are you going to have the appointment? It's AI, not fucking magic, but the people who want your dollar probably want you to think it is magic.

Those commercials are the worst. If this is the best idealized scenario they can come up with, the product must be real shit.

[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 37 points 2 days ago (3 children)

We had a presentation at work that the VPs were so proud of and proclaimed to be the future of business with AI. Ready? Are you sure? The pure vision involved is staggering, and I want you to be prepared for it. Ok, here goes:

Here's the scenario... A buyer gets an email from another employee to buy something for the business. The buyer opens an AI bot and tells it to search their email for purchase requests. The AI identifies which emails are likely purchase requests. The buyer then asks the AI to see the first one. It is a purchase request! Hooray! The AI sees that the amount is over a certain dollar amount. It asks, "Do you want to forward it to your manager for approval?" "Why, yes, thank you!" It then sends a kindly worded email on their behalf to their manager. Eventually, the manager replies and the next time the buyer opens their AI chatbot it notices the response and interprets the response as an approval. "Would you like to process this purchase request?" "Yes please, almighty chat bot!" The application then copies what it thinks are the relevant data (carefully formatted for the success of the demo, of course) into a web form open in a browser window for the buyer to submit to the purchasing system.

Mid-six figure executives of this fortune 100 company, some with C__ in their titles, applauded. They shook hands. They beamed and professed the future was here and we were on the forefront of it.

Not a single Vice President in this "technology company" bothered asking WHY THE FUCK WE WERE MAKING PURCHASE REQUESTS BY FUCKING EMAIL. Like, maybe we should go back to 1999 and master digital workflows first? Or at this point even pay some consultant hacks to implement some of that RPA crack they were peddling a decade before that we dropped $10M on? Or maybe, maybe, take Microsoft's dick out of our mouths long enough to ask whether ANY of this makes sense!

The future has arrived. This bubble can't pop soon enough.

[–] msage@programming.dev 1 points 22 hours ago

So just like a blockchain, they reinvent central database but with magic.

Fuck this, I used to love IT.

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[–] M137@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Huh, I've lived without ads of any kind other than what I see at the tramstop or going past stores that I never thought about AI ads being a thing. It's not surprising at all, both their existence and people falling for it, but it's just such a weird realisation.
The often used idea, in all kinds of media, of someone living in a weird dystopia and not really being aware of it but slowly getting hints and seeing stuff that makes them go "huh, this is some weird shit that's apparently daily life for a lot of people" is something I feel more and more. And this isn't some "I'm smarter than them/everyone else" thing, it's just that my brain is wired in a way where I often get these moments of difference, and I know many people feel the same, especially here. Never used or had interest in AI for anything other than a few minutes of "let's try this AI image generation thing to make weird shit".

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