this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2024
959 points (97.9% liked)
Technology
59111 readers
3274 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Okay. I'm a transhumanist. I like AI, automation, and the abolishment of involuntary labor as well as obligatory adversity. Even I thought this ad was super fucking creepy. How the fuck do you justify sending your daughter an auto-generated letter? Now, not only do you not care enough to do it yourself, you're lying to her about it.
Other way around - the AI is writing a letter "from" the daughter to be sent to the athlete. Still BS though, and I'm sure famous people just love getting spam fan mail where the person couldn't be bothered to draft it themself.
I was remembering an ad that I saw yesterday(?), so either I mis-remembered, mis-understood, or mistook the ad mentioned in the article for the one I saw.
Regardless, ty for letting me know.
Imagine finding out that everything wise your parent had ever said to you was read verbatim from an AI tool.
It'd explain a lot, actually. 🤔
Yeah, since 2016 it's become apparent that my father never believed anything he said about morals when I was a kid. Just saying the words he thought he was supposed to say.
From my end, it's more to do with the fact that my parents' advice has been consistently bad and so have their life decisions.
If i look around me, the people have stopped caring and been lying about it for years.
Either Google knows it's audience, or the ad was sent to the wrong crowd.