Fuck AI

AI would give you the finger if it could draw one.

I mean, this is actually the reaction that it gets. Llms are being sold to everybody because they look kinda like they could maybe be useful for a bunch of things, then it turns out they're actually worse that a good 1st week junior at all of them, so the only people who buy in are those so divorced from the front that they just have no idea (which necessitates that either they don't listen to their peeps, of they have some real grifters in their advisory ranks) or people who never intended on actually making a product (to be clear, this is worse. Carelessness and indirect grift is bad. Direct gift is worse)

I was traveling, and this one city I was going through had SD images everywhere as advertising for their downtown, and the quote was "celebrate what's real". They had the audacity to use AI images and tell me to celebrate what's real. Wtf

Edit: needless to say, I did not go to their downtown.

Nah, it's not that they can't afford professional artists, it's that they don't want to.

I saw a job listing the other day for an “AI Advocate” (I don’t remember the specific job title). Basically the job was to promote the use of AI products to other companies. It got me thinking that their AI replacements for humans must not be very good if they need a human to promote them, otherwise the AI would be able to successfully sell itself.

The one and only time I've done consulting for a pharmaceutical company, I was presented with an AI generated ad for a drug. They kept asking what I liked about the image and the only acceptable response was how are you all finding ways to make medicine more impersonable than it already is

If I hear an “AI” voiceover I have the same reaction. Definitely won’t be buying anything from Dr. Squatch.

People here would definitely feel that way.

70% of human beings? They buying the ai shit.

When a company uses ai I put them on my blacklist, I don’t touch their slop ever again.

When people use ai I know to never interact with them, because it’s a waste of my time.

When a user online posts ai slop, I block them so their shit doesn’t show up in my feed.

Hey, if you don't have much of a budget that's fine. What AI indicates is that your thing is either too shitty to photograph, or that you don't much care what it looks like.

Haha… I started an LLC on Wednesday. I had AI generate a (temporary) company logo for me.

Yesterday, I sent that logo to a real artist and asked them to re-make and improve it because I’m not planning on using AI shit.

If I can afford to spend $75 on a side hustle, any real company that I’m buying shit from better at least be doing the same.

This has been my reaction for a while now. And usually, I feel like it does tend to accurately represent the thought put into a product.

When a company barely thinks about their marketing material, (the thing they often require to even make their thing seem like a purchase you "need" in the first place) and just assumes that "AI cool therefore AI good" when making their ad, then yeah, I'm going to be highly skeptical of the thought they put into their actual product.

The only time it wouldn't raise red flags for me is when it's used in more of a, I guess you could call it a transitional manner. Like in Coca Cola's "Masterpiece" ad where they mostly just used it to make the transitions between relatively different scenes look a little more natural, but it was only used for a few frames each time, rather than comprising the vast majority of the promotional material itself.

That ad required many actual talented human artists, and would not have been even physically possible with AI alone, so it evokes a different reaction in my opinion.

Of course, then Coca Cola marketing execs released their complete stock footage-looking AI slop ad a bit later, so it doesn't seem like that's a trend that'll hold up.

Toupee fallacy.

Hate to tell you but you're the only one thinking that. The average consumer could not care less.

If it looks like trash then kiss my ass