Someone should go find earlier examples of this genre, in ads for consumer online services, as early as the 1980s.
A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials
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#82The article's funny, and kind of surreal read considering a dimension fading away while all the characters become cartoons and the landscape becomes vague. Have similar thoughts occasionally.
However, also creepy. Not sure if its the way humans have always written, that ChatAI got too good too fast, or that they all secretly had them all for years (Multiple massive AI releases in a year???, "had em all in a box in the back")
The 2nd image (with pair of images) on the Sharing Photos subsection [1] literally looks like StableDiffusion++. Somebody wrote two prompts, that had something like "Male with frizzy hair next to girl in pink shirt with glasses with brick building behind" and then it didn't care whether it was the same male in both, or what skin color.
Most text also seems weirdly similar to: Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra [2]
[1] https://maxread.substack.com/i/137044198/sharing-photographs...
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#83Note that it is typically 9:41 AM or 10:09 AM [Watch] in the Apple Dimension.
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#84> Like a lot of troubled young men, I used to pay close attention to Apple’s developer conferences and special announcements, eagerly anticipating each new generation of iPhone and operating system. ... As a deranged older man, I now collect artifacts from Apple advertisements, to reconstruct the characters and interactions portrayed in their fantasy world, to inform the public about how (for instance) they text diff…
Quite the contrary to deranged, I think its exactly in line with someone who collects sports jerseys or old coins with manufacturing defects. The world of Apple propaganda is expansive and rich, and has more than enough depth to justify a worthwhile hobby. In fact, at a party or gathering I'd be way more excited to hear about your collection than to hear about a guys collection of stamps or WWI era guns (not to dispa…
That’s deranged.
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#85I would posit that Dimension Apple also extends into the shows it does product placement in, where they stipulate that villans can't use Apple products. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/apple-wont-let-f... Once you see it, it's really hard to unsee and can make certain shows like Law and Order SVU seem like a longform Apple ad. Ted Lasso on Apple TV (and presumably other Apple TV shows too, though I haven'…
The Apple product placement in Ted Lasso was upsetting. You’re right. It came this close to souring me on a good show. Right up to the point of just dumping it. But even walking that close to the line is disrespectful to one’s audience.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Quite the contrary to deranged, I think its exactly in line with someone who collects sports jerseys or old coins with manufacturing defects. The world of Apple propaganda is expansive and rich, and has more than enough depth to justify a worthwhile hobby. In fact, at a party or gathering I'd be way more excited to hear about your collection than to hear about a guys collection of stamps or WWI era guns (not to dispa…
That’s deranged.
Yep. At the end of the day, all humans are moderately deranged. If we were all rational value optimizers, the world would be a lot shittier place.
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#87This is very funny, but it's also disquieting, because people who text like this absolutely do exist; I know because I'm on the list for the block I live on. Modulo a lack of spelling and grammar errors, this is what normal people sound like. The idea that very normal people behavior is this odd or telling is, itself, pretty telling!
I’m also on the list of the block I live on, and people also text like this on that list… …including, me. On that list. I think part of what’s disquieting is that there is a “formal text English” that exists (and people know about), but people use it only in certain circumstances, like when you’re texting a group of people that you don’t know very well, and that you don’t want to offend, or that you want to seem “pro…
Huh, maybe I'm weird, but I use the same 'voice' in all forms of communication. With the exception of the shorthand I share with my husband, I always text in full, properly formatted sentences and paragraphs. I use the same style for texts, mastodon posts, and long hackernews comments. It's also the same style I typically speak in normal conversation.
Now I think about it, that's probably an autistic trait. I kind of have to carefully construct what I'm saying in any context, and it looks like this.
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#88Apple should take a page from Hollywood and create an Apple Cinematic Universe where there is continuity on the various storylines and characters created in their presentations.
Maybe they laid the foundation for that with the Mother Nature skit.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m also on the list of the block I live on, and people also text like this on that list… …including, me. On that list. I think part of what’s disquieting is that there is a “formal text English” that exists (and people know about), but people use it only in certain circumstances, like when you’re texting a group of people that you don’t know very well, and that you don’t want to offend, or that you want to seem “pro…
Huh, maybe I'm weird, but I use the same 'voice' in all forms of communication. With the exception of the shorthand I share with my husband, I always text in full, properly formatted sentences and paragraphs. I use the same style for texts, mastodon posts, and long hackernews comments. It's also the same style I typically speak in normal conversation. Now I think about it, that's probably an autistic trait. I kind of…
My hackernews comment drafting process often goes right up to the end of the delay setting I have. Closer to one and done, a la speech, is a habit I'd love to pick up.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
studies show that kids these days interpret texts ending in a period as passive aggressive or something
In a similar vein, ending with an ellipsis (…), while used by many to indicate thought, consideration, or other sort of pause in speech often comes across to younger readers as a sort of passive aggressiveness or shortness of patience.
and just when you think you've solved the ellipses and fullstop, someone comes along and hits you with the:
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