the guy in the snapdragon commercial who uses ai to generate a bedtime story to tell his kids demonstrates that ai is really useful for inventing new and astonishing ways to be a loser
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a dude came up with new stories to tell his son. he eventually developed those stories into fuckin percy jackson. knowing there are people even shitter than me at coming up with interesting stories deals psychic damage
The worst AI commercial was the guy showing his grandfather some AI slop image of his old neighborhood and the grandfather pretending like that's accurate.
Meta has one where some guy asks the AI if conservation of energy is important in thermodynamics and it says it is because it “improves efficiency & maintains balance” or something, and I’m screaming at the TV that it’s not just important, it’s REQUIRED. It’s the fucking FIRST LAW of thermodynamics!
My parents read to me A LOT when I was small. It helped to make me who I am, and I cannot imagine what a mutant I would've turned into if they'd just been regurgitating AI slop at me.
like two decades ago the internet gave us the myth of a hyphenate neo-renaissance creative culture but it quickly became the business of unbearable influencers and grindset dork archetypes who would be interested in things like “AI-powered glamping”
apple's AI commercial is the same. woman forgets her husband's birthday, but their daughters don't, so with a snark smile she asks AI to create an emotional slideshow with photos of them togheter and basically rubs it in everybody's face. so... yeah, AI is a product for losers. got it.
Or the one where the little boy has every single device in their house, including their fridge, remind him of his crush’s bday so he could say hi to her on the bus. Bro I know you’re like 10 but make an effort.
Then there’s the other one where the guy walks out of a meeting to have AI summarize the answer to a question he definitely would have simply known if he’d been doing his job.
I'll preface this by saying I haven't seen this commercial and I'm sure this guy is a loser, but I have to respect someone malingering at work no matter what tools they use
I can't help but feel the ad isn't trying to sell to lazy employees... it's trying to sell to bosses by saying, "see? We can just replace all these losers with robots, and you can pocket all the paychecks!"
I like the one where she asks the AI to give her book club discussion topics for Moby Dick and it says "Revenge". All my knowledge of Moby Dick comes from one scene in Star Trek: First Contact and I could have given her that answer.
That one is so baffling because like... did she read the book? Why is she hosting a book club if she doesn't seem to know anything about the book itself? Who would start a book club and then just let an AI basically run it?
I wonder how many of the ideas for AI ads were produced using AI. These companies just prompting it "create everyday scenarios where AI can be useful" and this is the best it can come up with, because those Matt McConaughey ones were so stupid surely no functional human thought of them
Those commercials are extra confusing because Salesforce is a business software, not consumer. So it should be selling to restaurant owners, not patrons.
So what restaurant owners are supposed to be taking away is "If I don't have AI I'll sit my customers outside in the pouring rain?"
From that vantage point, the airport one is even more confusing. Why is it my problem if I have shit-for-brains passengers who already paid, but now can’t find the gate for their flight? If anything, wouldn’t I lose money by not being able to sell those people emergency replacement flights?
It reminds me of the one where the guy has AI help him prep for his interview and he’s thinking about his kids and I’m like hey man. Maybe you can ask your kids to help prep for your interview.
I'm always willing to jump on the 'losers use AI for stupid shit' train, but I want to bring attention to the 'they are radicalizing people with ai generated videos' trolly.
AI ads are like "AI can help you be more productive, so you can have more time too..." And then it stalls there, because they're also trying to promote AI for leisure and family time too. It's not like you're getting your work done faster so you can enjoy time spent telling stories to the kids
STOP using ChatGPT to do your homework. Because there's a BETTER app to use to cheat yourself of a future. Use "aicyen" our brand new LMM associated with a facebook page that has zero likes but advertises on Instagram nonetheless
Jon I can’t believe you’d be so hateful and negative about a new technology when I think you’d really do cool things with an app that burns 500 gallons of water to print a mostly accurate fajita recipe
I really am amazed by how much AI marketing has leaned into "this is perfect for stupid people." I remember Apple's big AI ad a year or so ago, where the gist was basically, "We'll help you send one coherent email to your boss, who will be blown away because he thinks you're a total fucking idiot."
ahh yes, i remember being a kid when my dad would tell me a bedtime story, first he'd tap at his computer for about 15 minutes tweaking the prompt, and then reading the generated text out loud blind, a famously easy skill
And the cool thing about actual books is that it created a shared experience for strangers growing up.
With AI, we can all experience entirely different realities than everyone around us and share nothing, making it harder than ever to connect and organize! Thanks, AI!
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"I can't murder you legally, so we're reading some fucking AI books, you stupid crybaby bitch"
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cld0rxlqgggo
So what restaurant owners are supposed to be taking away is "If I don't have AI I'll sit my customers outside in the pouring rain?"
Those are sentient robot nannies, not Chat GPT, and those video games are trying to tell you that such a future is a BAD thing.
Idiots gall for this shit.
Snapdragon is jumpibg the shsrk with unrealistic bs.
(reading) Way to go, slugger!
[ Imagine Dragons starts playing ]
LOL worst commercial ever
With AI, we can all experience entirely different realities than everyone around us and share nothing, making it harder than ever to connect and organize! Thanks, AI!