Here at Meta, we believe AI will build connections between people
*Footage of people connecting by dancing in a field, having a coffee, and generally doing literally anything other than use AI*
Grok is this funny
There’s people still not using adblockers and they get ai generated ads about ai shoved down their throats. Why are you doing this to yourselves?
Related, but the amount of tech and/or privacy adjacent youtubers I have seen complain about ads, about what they’re doing to be less susceptible, how this or that change is TOO much, and so on if baffling. JUST USE AN ADBLOCKER. There’s always one comment pointing that out, with a derailed conversation below, but most of the comments will be “actually, if you repeatedly close then reopen a YouTube video for 10-15 times, it will not show the ad on the next open!” with a million “don’t tell, now Google is gonna patch!” replies. I wish I was joking.
If you don’t use an Adblocker, get one, NOW. It takes 30s. If you think “it’s not that bad”, install it anyways and give it a try for a week. Disable it. See if it’s really “not that bad”, lmao.
Install them on your parents’ devices. Your grandparents’. Siblings. Friends.
I was using my mom’s computer the other day and I couldn’t figure out why I wasn’t seeing any ads on her browser. Then I remembered that I had installed uBlock origin for her. I love when past me does current me a solid. I’ve also told her that she can go on Faceborg if she wants but I will not help her with it in any way (I can’t since I haven’t been on it since 2008). She tells people I “refuse to let her use it” which is not strictly accurate but I feel pride anyway when she says that.
my favourite so far is volvo.
“hey ai, any good deals nearby?”
“
there's a tv on sale at a nearby electronics store”“will it fit in the boot?”
“
yes”“nice, plot me a route there”
…like the kind of person exists that impulse buys a tv.
I would believe something like “hey AI, which of the massage parlors near me are really handjob stores?”
To be fair, a not insignificant portion of that ad’s target audience is probably considering impulse leasing a Volvo and showing off all of its gadgets to their friends.
I have impulse bought a tv, at the store because it was marked down due to being returned after getting a bonus. I have no idea about just doing it randomly while out.
AHHHH IM GONNA CONSOOOOOM!!!11
Is GET YOUR FREE TVS still funny?
Such a great example of the C O N S U M E mindset. Does the TV have the features the person wants? Is it the right size or is taking it home all that matters? Is a deal better than the regular list price for a TV that does what they need?
Nope, just ‘can I spend money’?
What? Are you not interested in the most generic TV with the most basic feature set legally possible, for the measly price of a Ferrari? Heresy!
It is half off the arbitrarily high price at that one particular overpriced store. What a deal!
There’s absolutely a kind of person that does that. My ex’s father bought three vacuum cleaners because they were on a good sale and he figured someone he knew would need a vacuum eventually.
Did he give you a vacuum cleaner?
most vacuum cleaners still fit in a car boot though
Maybe he needed a tv for the boot
I’ve been seeing ads made by ai and they’re even worse. Just saw one on YouTube for glasses “that change colour with just the touch of a finger!” And had ai video of smiling people at the beach tapping their lenses to change the glass colour multiple times, like the glass itself has rgb. Best part is, the fake product didn’t even work consistently in the ai video and didn’t change colour when they tapped sometimes.
I genuinely don’t understand how an ad that’s so obviously fake is tricking enough people to be worth spending an entire ad budget on.
AI CEOs in interviews: Our model is so advanced it scares me. It definitely has the ability to cure cancer, but it may also decide to kill all humans.
AI in their advertising: Our model can send emails and create shopping lists.
The difference is that one is for attracting money, and the other is written by lawyers.
definitely has the ability to cure cancer
But we won’t let it do that while it generates nudes for pedophiles.
My favorite ads are the ones that can easily be solved with minimal human interaction. Apple released an ad for their “rewind” feature where the Apple Watch records everyone’s audio and transcribes it. Their shining example is if the waitress talks too fast you can stare at your watch instead of asking her to repeat herself.
Reminds me of my favorite; Sam Altman suggested using Open AI to create a podcast based on your kids’ interests to listen to on the way to school. The top comment was “Just talk to your kids.”
“Just talk to your kids.”
I am reminded of the scene in Parks and Rec where the schools need to be closed for a day and parents are freaking out. One asks, “you’re saying I should keep my kids at home? Where I live?”
I mean, it could definitely be useful to listen to a podcast together with your kids, as a way of bonding. But… why not listen to a podcast made by humans? There are sooo many!
But yes, talk with your kids! the kids will talk nonstop if they see you’re actually listening :)
They key is to actually focus your attention on your kids instead of playing with “ai” instead of your kids.
Yup! Listen to them, talk to them! Treat them as people!
Many years ago I worked for a small research company that was trying to find applications for voice assistant technology. This was before LLMs mind you, so even more useless than today. One of their projects was “make an ai that will talk to your grandparents and transcribe their stories”.
I told them that if my kids did that to me I’d just never speak to them again.
They tried anyway, and surprise — it went nowhere.
Iirc someone on the selhosted com recently built this exact thing. An AI tool that asks family members questions about their lives and transcribes it into a digital scrapbook thing.
Literally made me sick.
Hey surveillance device that I but no one else around me opted into, what was that list of specials that the waiter had memorized and just told me? I dont want to simply ask him to repeat it.
That would require talking to a human, that’s free, so is to be discouraged when possible.
Their shining example is if the waitress talks too fast you can stare at your watch instead of asking her to repeat herself.
No, that’s too stupid, that can’t possibly be real.
Joe Rogan is their target demographic.
“Hey AI does my plant hate me?”
Pretty much sums up the average AI user.
To be fair, people were probably already Google searching this before AI was around.
The elementary school biology was pretty hard
AI definitely produces it’s own particular brand of slop and the quantity that can be shat out is unparalleled, but it’s worth reminding ourselves we haven’t actually fallen that far from 12 page listicles like “Top 10 reasons your plan definitely hates you” filled with whatever the author happened to have to say.
Hey Gemini, can you email my boss and make it look like I did my job?
Hey Gemini, text my wife
Hey Gemini, can you justify my behaviour to my wife and explain why it’s wrong she’s mad at me?
Hey Gemini, can you fake my resume and make me sound good for every job posting around me?
Hey Gemini, can you fuck this guy’s wife?
Step-gemini what are you doing?
Please don’t Gemini :(
I’ll do it at a 100% discount compared to Gemini, where do I sign up and do I get a commemorative t shirt?
Hey Gemini, experience this tragic irony for me
NOOOOOO!!!
To be fair, the job one is justified, it’s useless to make a good resume and then everyone just scan it with AI automatically and never read it
It’s more the rampant lying these days that I hate.
I have interviewed a ton of people who just straight up lie. And I put them on the spot on it.
And, they all respond by using Gemini.
Might as well not even be in the loop, just let the machines talk to each other.
I’ve been seeing ChatGPT ads recently that, I think, are trying to position their AI as something old lonely people can talk to when they have nobody else in their lives. It’s really quite sad.
I heard a podcast (maybe This American Life) that spent time with a woman out in the sticks, physically no longer able to be active, all kids many hours away, who was given one of these by her local fire department. She had been scoring lower and lower on cognitive tests for several years, and after getting this thing she reversed that trend. It was creepy, and her kids didn’t like it, but it was there and her kids were not, and it clearly had improved her quality of life. It’s sad she didn’t have human connections in her daily life, but given her circumstances, the thing had upside.
I’m old and alone, but there’s no fucking way I’m going to talk a machine. Because, then I’d be old, alone, AND pitiful.
Hey here youre talking to real people at least!
… probably.
You can always talk to us lemmings
Only 6.9 killowatt hours to come up with that recommendation. A bargain.
I unironically use my local LLM for this. Yeah I could pick my dinner. But it can check the nutrition profile of what I’ve eaten today and compensate for shortcomings.
And I have ADHD. So every stupid decision I have to make is a decision I can’t make later. And if I’m not literally standing in the pantry I can’t remember what’s in there.
So yeah, it’s not a bad use.
I don’t think “bad” would be the preferred descriptor of the criticisms.
What model are you running? And any MCP server youre using with it?
Tbh, knowing what to eat if maybe one of the hardest jobs a human can do.
Edit: you people are taking this comment way to seriously
I solved this problem by eating the same three meals that I make myself every day.
The first step was recognizing that food is not entertainment, so as long as it meets my nutritional needs, it doesn’t need to vary. Boredom doesn’t enter into it, because it’s not entertainment, the same way I don’t get bored with taking a shower or getting dressed, or any of the other things I do in the course of the day. Most things we do are not entertainment, and when I made eating one of them, that solved many issues for me.
I both envy and pity your ability to do this at the same time. Food is such a large part of life and culture. To not experience the veritable cornucopia of flavours and textures out there feel like such a missed opportunity to me.
I may be a foody applying their slanted perspective at this, but there’s a reason why we say the “variety is the spice of life”. The saying works both ways.
Yeah I’d off myself after day 4
What a blessed live you must have if that’s the hardest thing you do…
It will never cease to amaze me how you can ask some people, “what do you want for lunch?” And their answer 90% of the time is, “I don’t know, I haven’t thought about it.”
You eat three times a day. Every single day. Your whole. Entire. Life. Every single day, I wake up and make a plan that revolves around my three meals. The idea of not doing that makes about as much sense to me as wiping before you poop.
Every single day, I wake up and make a plan that revolves around my three meals.
That is absolutely crazy to me. Unless it’s a special occasion or I’m planning to cook a specific meal that requires shopping or prep, I don’t even think about it until I start to get hungry. How would I know what I’ll be hungry for?
I dont know how ill be feeling before every meal. What if i planned on making pot pie for dinner, but came home and was hungry right then and didnt want to wait or put in the effort for pot pie?
Or what if i packed left over chicken in my lunch the night before and turns out by the time lunch rolls around, i wanted a burrito?
Or what if people dont have an appetite due to their medication and can literally forget to eat because their body never told them they needed nutrients?
Every single day, I wake up and make a plan that revolves around my three meals.
This borders on mental illness, IMO. Focused on food to a bit of an unhealthy degree.
That’s because i’il most probably change idea on what i’d like to eat in a 10 hour span
I don’t care what I eat, nor do I do it 3 times a day. I do it to avoid the consequences.
I just eat what I feel like eating in that moment. Though I don’t keep a large stock of anything other than noodles and cereal so anything else I usually plan to eat the day I buy it (or sometimes for the day after). I also eat at different times depending on when I get hungry. Eating just isn’t a very planned activity for me.
Incorrect, sometimes its barely one a day
