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Re: Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff

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Post by dbalatero »

TFNA wrote: post #53
GrinningFool wrote: post #22

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Strangely enough, I don't recall any companies advertising to consumers that they outsourced.

I’ve seen a few brands here and there boasting of the quality of the “select Asian suppliers” they moved their manufacturing to. It’s a clever way to preempt criticism that the brand is now no different from any of the competing brands that moved to China or Vietnam.

Is this in things like the clothing industry, where there exists a conversation around fast/cheap/outsourced fashion and has consumer pushback built in? If so, it makes sense they would get ahead of that. I'm not sure all industries bother to make that point/consumers really care.

Re: Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff

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Post by dngray »

walt_grata wrote: post #35
echelon wrote: post #17

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Got any sources for those claims that show how broadly adopted ai is in those countries? I lookes at japan and china and could find a few articles, the anime one cites a single anime made with ai and nothing about its reception and similar results for china

I know there's a lot of blog articles with blogspam ai slop with indian sounding names, so that's anecdotal but i have noticed that in tech.

Re: Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff

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Post by site-packages1 »

rubyfan wrote: post #37
vitally3643 wrote: post #29

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The explicit and overt messaging from AI companies in the West is directly and loudly claiming their goal is to put people out of work. In a society where we've normalized "wage slave or death by starvation", yeah, you're gonna get backlash.

I think you hit the nail on the head. In a winner take most society why would you expect the masses to embrace a technology that makes them losers?

Particularly when there is no plan for all the displaced folks who no longer have jobs. Essentially the brilliant plan seems to be to fire humans working their jobs and getting paid, replace them with "AI", give savings to the CEO or billionaire class, let the jobless people starve or something. Like, you don't need an AI Assistant to tell you that this plan will create backlash.

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Post by parineum »

vitally3643 wrote: post #29
echelon wrote: post #17

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The explicit and overt messaging from AI companies in the West is directly and loudly claiming their goal is to put people out of work. In a society where we've normalized "wage slave or death by starvation", yeah, you're gonna get backlash.

Your post implies that these things don't apply outside of the west but I don't see how they don't equally apply everywhere.

Also, is it abnormal that if you don't do work you can't eat? That seems like a pretty fundamental truth of life on earth.

Re: Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff

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Post by dbalatero »

Configure0251 wrote: post #8
dude250711 wrote: post #2

Just clearly explain how you are translating all the AI "value" into a reduced price for me - consumer, and it will be welcome. E.g. Spotify is using AI extensively, consequently I expect them to reduce the price very soon. Maybe like a 50% cut.

Thank you for a great laugh this morning!

Hey I mean AI is supposed to make us 10x more productive, so the price of things should also go down 10x right?

...right?

Re: Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff

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Post by manjalyc »

Ironic considering the article just reeks of AI.

- AI loves to use "consumers" instead of just saying people or Americans

- "You’ve spent time and budget on it, yet your audience can’t name a single company they think is doing it well. "

- "The small moments that used to make the web worth visiting are disappearing."

- "The brand that builds that recognition first gets to define the standard."

Nearly every sentence has an AI-ism...

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Post by jazzypants »

jmyeet wrote: post #42
echelon wrote: post #17

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> The media is actively instilling hate for AI. > Data centers are evil. Water is being destroyed. Eight whole rivers are drained to make a cat jpeg. > Rich people are stealing all the jobs. That would be a rare occurrence of the media doing its job because literally all of those things are true. One difference between China and the US is that China won't allow data centers to jack up electricity prices, make things…

The only one that's not entirely true is the water usage concern. The vast amount of water usage is non-consumptive, and you can even use reclaimed wastewater. To be clear, I'm on your side-- I just want to make sure that we don't give our opponents any ammunition by spouting misinformation. I'm happy to be proven wrong on this. https://blog.andymasley.com/p/the-ai-water-issue-is-fake
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