I didn't see anywhere on the page the date when they plan to kill the product...
Pomelli
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#133The whole (original) premise of social media was "let's make a more human side of our business so that people can connect with us". Now we've come full circle where the robots are making all the social content and increasingly the robots are the ones consuming it too. Weird, uncanny valley times. And, FWIW, not times I want anything to do with, hence why I've been off all social media for years now...
Hacker News is social media too.
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would say a couple of things: 1. Just because I don't use something doesn't mean that I think it shouldn't exist or be sold. People can make their own choices. A product isn't bad or useless or unnecessary because it doesn't align with my preferences. I'm fine with people being able to make their own choices about what they buy. Also, I generally don't think people should have to live a totally ascetic lifestyle. I…
Thank you for sharing your perspective. I do agree that we don't need to extremify asceticism. I certainly own useless crap. I think I do specifically have a minimalist approach to kitchens inspired by setups such as hundred rabbits' https://100r.co/site/cooking.html plus I also am becoming increasingly concerned with my carbon footprint given the climate-related extinction event we are currently facing, and that pro…
Not as much about the economics of the business as my work on using AI to automate it, but I do have a Substack: https://theautomatedoperator.substack.com/
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know, I feel like it will help smaller businesses without a budget for a designer or even design taste compete with larger companies. Maybe that's good and maybe not. But big brands always had this splashy advertising, so this evens the field
Advertising is a negative sum game[0]. Helping smaller businesses without budget compete with larger companies on advertising is just contributing to making life worse for everyone. There's no evening the field, only deepening the muck. There's no persistent advantage possible here, because whatever new cool thing a small business can do, a large business can do more of it and better -- [0] - It's a zero-sum game in…
There's an argument to be made that if everyone is doing it then it will stop being effective and brands will have to start reaching for more honest forms of marketing/advertising their product. I think we've already gone through a cycle of this with influencer marketing where a decade ago, if a Youtuber recommended a product it had a lot more weight (eg. I could actually imagine a lot of creators using Audible/Squarespace) than today where most people realize it's just a way for them to make money and doesn't really hold much weight.
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you’re a software bro making $300k today, and lose your job to AI, it’s very unlikely that the new baseline for everyone is going to be that of a $300k income. At least not anytime soon.
sure but whatever mechanism allowed for jobs to exist a few years/decades after industrial revolution will apply here as well. with some jobs lost and chaos in the middle that is un-avoidable.
I dunno… what differentiates human labor in a few decades?
You don’t see ~anyone being paid because they are stronger than the next guy; hydraulics are stronger than all of us.
What happens when you don’t get paid for being smarter than the next guy, because AI is smarter than all of us?
And then next up is being paid for being more dexterous than the robots - basically all trade work. I think there’s a longer runway for those jobs, but it’s coming.
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Yes, content is _one_ component of reach, but without reach useless. And good content does not lead automatically to reach. Reach is developed by a lot of factors, channel marketing is also only one _minor_ factor of it. This tool does not help significantly with building all of that reputation you need to be trusted and gaining reach. It can't, because it does not create new channels and connections between humans.
With all due respect, this is simply a tool for creating content, one component of being able to reach people in channels where they consume your novel and interesting messages that both stand out and are shared, such they are aware of your amazing and unique product or service. It's not correct in business to blame a tool for a lack of creativity, some people are not very creative, those people tend to struggle with…
I do not blame the tool itself, I blame the article/announcement. Sorry, if I expressed myself not precisely enough.
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
Leaving it is the right choice though. The corpos will never care about you. I consume no ads, or Google software, and still do anything I want in the tech world.
I left Facebook, but its algorithm continues to actively encourage the divisiveness and misinformation that’s poisoning the world I live in. Sometimes “you don’t have to participate” isn’t strong enough advice, not that I know what the answer actually is.
Get yourself off the toxic platforms first, then immediate family and friends.
It is a bit like denormalizing smoking. It is a long game and a lot of education work but it is working.