I sent over 10k personal thank you videos to my customers

Post by rvnx » Wed, Aug 11, 2021, 7:51 PM UTC

andai wrote: post #17

fishtoaster wrote: post #9

This seems at least a little unethical. At the very least, I would think worse of a company that sent a video to me that seemed personalized, but later turned out to be mass-produced. He has an ethics section in the article, but doesn't doesn't go very deep and (unsurprisingly) concludes that his own actions were perfectly fine. The root of the problem is why customers respond well to these videos: they're surprised…

I used Deepfakes to trick 10k people into thinking I cared

Post by actually_a_dog » Wed, Aug 11, 2021, 7:51 PM UTC

titzer wrote: post #44

Magodo wrote: post #10

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> And the fact is: the CEO did not. It's deception, plain and simple. Not big, evil, Theranos-level deception, but deception still. If you think the blog post is bad, just watch the video on windsor's website: https://www.windsor.io/#video The CEO plainly says he has time to work on other important things. Jesus, even creating the video in the first place, requires you to say Hey First Name

That is so cringe. It's shit like this that will really make the masses hate tech companies. Years and years of education, tons and tons of computational resources, engineer months, years, cloud storage, MASSIVE SCALE , billion-dollar valuations (!?) and it's a crummy Ovaltine commercial with a clumsily edited in "Hey Ralphie!"

Post by burkaman » Wed, Aug 11, 2021, 7:53 PM UTC

underseacables wrote: post #2

Similarly there is a phenomenal company called HandWrytten. It uses robots to write thank you cards with ink pens. I upload a spreadsheet of all of my contacts, with a message for each, and the robot beautifully writes out the card in my own handwriting; personal hand writing is an extra fee. Takes about an hour for 155 contacts. I keep up with hundreds of people in my job and something personal like this really goes…

Post by Ataraxy » Wed, Aug 11, 2021, 7:54 PM UTC

burkaman wrote: post #35

Ataraxy wrote: post #32

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Devils advocate on Since all advertising is the practice of psychological manipulation how is this particularly different? Is all advertising unethical? Even if the process is automated, if the end result is to evoke a nice sentiment in someone, is that really a bad thing? Wouldn't the ethics really come into play in using such tech to rip people off in a variety of ways rather than to merely say thank you for your p…

> Even if the process is automated, if the end result is to evoke a nice sentiment in someone, is that really a bad thing? Yes, because it only evokes a nice sentiment if you lie about how it was made. Magic tricks are still fun even if you know they're tricks. This is not at all fun once you know it's a trick.

Post by burkaman » Wed, Aug 11, 2021, 7:59 PM UTC

Ataraxy wrote: post #67

burkaman wrote: post #35

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> Even if the process is automated, if the end result is to evoke a nice sentiment in someone, is that really a bad thing? Yes, because it only evokes a nice sentiment if you lie about how it was made. Magic tricks are still fun even if you know they're tricks. This is not at all fun once you know it's a trick.

The fun is in the novelty, not in the . Even if it's inherently considered dishonest by some, the same should be vigorously argued for all email/snail mail you have received for decades and frankly I can't remember the last time I've seen someone complain about a personalized email being dishonest.