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[–] 38 points 3 months ago

We really let the stupidest people have all the money and make the big decisions.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Can we stop with tech crunch .. I'm not disabling my adblocker.

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  • [+] [S] -6 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    what is the issue with Techcrunch friend? :)

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    If you have an adblocker techcrunch won't display the page. So for most people that care about privacy and security, it means an immediate click away without ever reading the article.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    For those of you who don't know. Theres a billionaire cult called TESCREAL which wants to "create a worthy successor to humanity".

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    [–] 44 points 3 months ago

    BwHahHahHAha.

    How in the fuck is this advert real 🤣

    It’s like onion or adult swim sketch. 🤣

    The complete disconnection and inability for any of these Silicon Valley fuck boys and girls to read the room is absolutely mind blowing.

    Jesus Christ. For a company that lives on stolen private communication, and pretends they know how to interpret it to sell it….

    This clearly disproves it. 😂

    Absolute fucking bellends.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    the David Bowie song “Five Years.”

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    For those who don't know the song, the song narrates what a person who has just heard from the news from a sobbing news anchor, that the world has 5 years to live and there is nothing anyone can do, and how this knowledge breaks some people and how it haunts and makes people think of what they can do for the next 5 years moments after hearing the news.

    That is the song they chose to back a Pro AI Optimism Ad.

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  • [+] 46 points 3 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 38 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Or the marketing people have research that says the tune matters more than the actual content of the song.

    Hell, they've been using "Born in the USA" as a song about Patriotism for decades. For people to make the connection they'd have to think about it critically, which is already more advanced than most advertising is meant to be experienced.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Idk this ad is just "You think AI is bad? Well look at all this stock footage of a happy family!"

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    [–] 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I’m so sick of Meta. Wish they’d flush themselves already.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah seriously, there’s not a single reason for them to exist. “Our goal is to harvest users’ personal data and sell it for profit!”

    Zero benefit to humanity, just soul-sucking abhorrent people doing disgusting shit.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    And I'm sure they employ a huge number of really talented people. imagine if all those engineers, designers, lawyers, etc. were set toward solving real problems and improving the world instead of ruining it further for profit....

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago*

    Pushing through the market square

    So many mothers sighing

    News had just come over

    We had five years left to cry in (cry in)

    .

    News guy wept and told us

    Earth was really dying (dying)

    Cried so much his face was wet

    Then I knew he was not lying (lying)

    .

    I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies

    I saw boys, toys, electric irons and TVs

    My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare

    I had to cram so many things to store everything in there

    .

    And all the fat, skinny people

    And all the tall, short people

    And all the nobody people

    And all the somebody people

    I never thought I'd need so many people

    .

    A girl my age went off her head

    Hit some tiny children

    If the black hadn't have pulled her off

    I think she would have killed them

    .

    A soldier with a broken arm

    Fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac

    A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest

    And a queer threw up at the sight of that

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    I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour

    Drinking milkshakes cold and long

    Smiling and waving and looking so fine

    Don't think you knew you were in this song

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    And it was cold and it rained, so I felt like an actor

    And I thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there

    Your face, your race, the way that you talk I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk

    .

    We've got five years, stuck on my eyes

    Five years, what a surprise

    We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot

    Five years, that's all we've got

    .

    We've got five years, what a surprise

    Five years, stuck on my eyes

    We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot

    Five years, that's all we've got

    .

    We've got five years, stuck on my eyes

    Five years, what a surprise

    We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot

    Five years, that's all we've got

    .

    We've got five years, what a surprise

    We've got five years, stuck on my eyes

    We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot

    Five years, that's all we've got

    .

    Five years

    Five years

    Five years

    Five years

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Another article in which we find that the people who are making things in this country are building the things that science fiction authors wrote about to stop people from doing such things. Yup, they saw the horrors and they just smiled and thought "Cool!"

    Colossus the Forbin Project, I Robot (the literature and the movie), Running Man ,The Matrix, Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Rollerball, And of course Minority Report.

    These are all good works of fiction, either literature or movies, that apparently our business elite has decided is what we need to make Real.

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    [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    AI bros are never beating the philistine-who-never-once-read-a-book-and-only-listens-to-jam-bands-because-there-are-no-challenging-lyrics accusations

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Four different communities you posted this to. I'm blocking the spammy git.

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    [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    You don't need to post this to so many different communities, four is ridiculous.

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    [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    One good thing about AI is exposing the level of taste these people have.

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