Good Lord, how depressing is that Google Gemini ad...

Good Lord, how depressing is that Google Gemini ad about getting the AI to write your kid’s fan letter to her hero athlete? Why not get Midjourney to make a picture to enclose as well? What do they think it means for a child to write a fan latter, or for a recipient to read one?

Like 27 July at 14:14 | Open on mastodon.social

13 comments

Kyle Hughes

@kjhealy @joesteel I said, to my TV, “why don’t you get your kid to write their own fucking letter,” and then recoiled because I did not know where that came from.

27 July at 14:19 | Open on mister.computer

Peter Krupa

@kyle @kjhealy @joesteel genuinely made me angry as well. psycho shit.

27 July at 15:20 | Open on thepit.social

Kieran Healy

I'm reminded of a remark by the noted social theorist of gift exchange Fred Rogers: “And those handmade presents that children often bring home from school: They have so much value! The value is that the child put whatever he or she could into making them. The way we parents respond to the giving of such gifts is very important. To the child, the gift is really self”. The gift is really self, you Google AI weirdos.

27 July at 14:21 | Open on mastodon.social

Timothy

@kjhealy “Here is a breathing body and a beating heart,
strong legs, bones and teeth,
and two clear eyes to read the world, she whispered,
and here, I said, is the lanyard AI made at camp”

27 July at 14:24 | Open on mastodon.roundpond.net

Jeremy Kahn

@kjhealy When our kids were small and the gift was ‘edible’ I was concerned that the quantity of self might be more than was desirable …

27 July at 14:58 | Open on mastodon.social

Eleanor Rees

@kjhealy why not get the AI to generate some images and biographical details of children, to save you the trouble of having any?

27 July at 14:27 | Open on mas.to

mkj

@eleanorrees How about also having the AI generate some athletes for the kids to look up to, while we're at it?

"When all you have is a hammer, everything is a nail" WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE TAKEN AS LITERAL ADVICE!!!! 😡 👊

@kjhealy

27 July at 14:38 | Open on social.mkj.earth

Andrea Idini

@kjhealy what I'm worried about is that the stars will for sure reply with AI, abiding the behaviour and simulating social relations where nothing is (not even para-social ones).

And as often happens with stars, this will be taken as exemplary.

27 July at 14:37 | Open on mathstodon.xyz

ferricoxide

@kjhealy@mastodon.social

When you "get" effective advertising only slightly better than you "get" making a useful AU product.

Though, if your advertising goal is to let the world know, "this product is a solution looking for a problem," this is one of the best possible commercials?