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I hate the Gemini 'Dear Sydney' ad more every passing moment

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Re: I hate the Gemini 'Dear Sydney' ad more every passing moment

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Post by ethbr1 »

its_ethan wrote: post #34
api wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This and that awful Apple ad are both saying the same thing, or at least that’s how people interpret it. They’re saying “AI is here to make life sterile and empty and it’s awesome!” What I find most intriguing is the fact that these are giant companies with huge ad budgets and that presumably clear the highest profile ads with the C suite or people near it. All these presumably smart people thought these ads were gre…

With respect to the Apple ad, I don't think that was about AI at all - it was for the newest iPad Pro right? I interpreted it as look at all these cool arts/creative things that we've managed to compress into a single sheet of glass. I sort of get how people interpreted it as just maliciously destroying those things as a means to an end, but that feels like an intentional reading of bad faith to a company that is gen…

> I wonder if it would have received less blow back if they had "hidden" the actual crushing of the objects and just showed them entering a chamber with an implied compression...

Yes. You just wrote a better ad than Apple's highly paid agency.

Re: I hate the Gemini 'Dear Sydney' ad more every passing moment

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Post by potatoman22 »

jinushaun wrote: post #25
capital_guy wrote: post #18

I've seen this ad a hundred times during the Olympics so far (why do they play the same ads over and over?) -- and this article summarizes how it makes me feel very well. The logical extension of this stuff is insane -- why have kids learn to write at all? They can just have an AI do it. Why learn anything? It's all on the internet anyway. There are plenty of good use cases for AI generated texts. Creating transcript…

Many have said it before: big tech is using AI to automate the wrong things.

I think there's plenty of "right" things that are being automated. They're just small/boring tasks so no one talks about them.

Re: I hate the Gemini 'Dear Sydney' ad more every passing moment

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Post by jagged-chisel »

SuperNinKenDo wrote: post #19
jagged-chisel wrote: post #12

> I don’t hate efficiency. Are any of us trying to be “efficient” when writing a fan letter? I wouldn’t think so. I want a suggestion on how to start. If I asked an AI for the letter from the ad, I would also have read and edited it heavily before I considered it “complete.” Maybe TFA author is correct that people need to hear what he’s saying (they won’t), but I for one will be using AI output as suggestions.

Children editing LLM generated garbage instead of actually writing to their heroes. Christ. This article was aimed at people like you mate.

You’ve read far too much into the few words I used. And you know nothing else about me.

I’m not your mate, guy.

Re: I hate the Gemini 'Dear Sydney' ad more every passing moment

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Post by shrimp_emoji »

potatoman22 wrote: post #42
jinushaun wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many have said it before: big tech is using AI to automate the wrong things.

I think there's plenty of "right" things that are being automated. They're just small/boring tasks so no one talks about them.

Like employees

Re: I hate the Gemini 'Dear Sydney' ad more every passing moment

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Post by jagged-chisel »

fzzzy wrote: post #33
xg15 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, by that logic MS couldn't have done better with Tay a few years ago. People were definitely talking about that one...

Sorry to make you feel old, but Tay was over 8 years ago.

Does 8 not qualify as “a few?”

Re: I hate the Gemini 'Dear Sydney' ad more every passing moment

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Post by prepend »

cgijoe wrote: post #11

Remember the point of an ad. It's to be memorable, and to get people talking about it. Google wants people talking about Gemini. Well, here we are. I think Google won in this instance. But yes, the ad content is very bad.

We’re talking about how Google sucks and is stupid.

I don’t think that’s what they wanted.

Re: I hate the Gemini 'Dear Sydney' ad more every passing moment

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Post by ignoramous »

capital_guy wrote: post #18

I've seen this ad a hundred times during the Olympics so far (why do they play the same ads over and over?) -- and this article summarizes how it makes me feel very well. The logical extension of this stuff is insane -- why have kids learn to write at all? They can just have an AI do it. Why learn anything? It's all on the internet anyway. There are plenty of good use cases for AI generated texts. Creating transcript…

> Writing a letter from the heart is not one of those things...

Is Notepad okay or should one write it up on Papyrus like Herodotus did? Is email fine, or you reckon Ravens, like the good ol' days?

Re: I hate the Gemini 'Dear Sydney' ad more every passing moment

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Post by shrimp_emoji »

prepend wrote: post #46
cgijoe wrote: post #11

Remember the point of an ad. It's to be memorable, and to get people talking about it. Google wants people talking about Gemini. Well, here we are. I think Google won in this instance. But yes, the ad content is very bad.

We’re talking about how Google sucks and is stupid. I don’t think that’s what they wanted.

But the commercial was about black people. Frankly, I think a big portion of this "I hate the ad" noise is just thinly-veiled racist dog whistling.

Re: I hate the Gemini 'Dear Sydney' ad more every passing moment

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Post by nrbernard »

> You’re missing it! You’re missing all of it! Go home, jump back into the sea, forget it, because this is the ride and you’re missing it.

Petri gets at something much broader: what is the point of tech like Gemini that ostensibly makes some small parts of our lives more efficient when doing so robs them of what makes life worth living in the first place?

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