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The AI Billboards Are Killing SF

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Re: The AI Billboards Are Killing SF

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I haven't live there since 2020, but before that it was all various SaaS and data pipeline related billboards.

It doesn't sound like it used to be any better. Maybe we don't need to complain about AI destroying things that already sucked, like billboards or Linkedin.

Re: The AI Billboards Are Killing SF

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I feel like SF has been full of frequently inscrutable billboards as long as I’ve been coming here — at least a decade.

It’s maybe got slightly more extreme recently, with an even larger percentage of them being inscrutable to me as someone who both works in tech and has a decent grasp of current industry trends.

I’ve never really got it — if even I don’t know what you’re advertising (or often, who is advertising!), how does this help your sales?

Re: The AI Billboards Are Killing SF

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It's more of a tragedy of the commons. There are so many AI billboards in SF that I legitimately can't differentiate any of the AI startups anymore, and that's even if they say what their product actually is .

Bold of you to assume they actually have products ;)

Re: The AI Billboards Are Killing SF

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I remember when I was young and every billboard in SF was some stupid web 2.0 startup, or SaaS, or Crypto Shitcoins. Now we're plagued with AI billboards and the world is ending!

At least I could usually tell what a web 2.0 company actually did. With AI nearly being a commodity at this point, AI billboards are like seeing ads for different brands of table salt.
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