▲ 495 ▼ Local Brand Realizes Customers Hate Its AI Ads, Switches to Charming Homemade Ones Instead (www.yahoo.com) submitted 3 months ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world 74 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch 22 points 3 months ago (4 children) I hate this timeline permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] terranoid@lemmy.cafe 1 point 3 months ago Sometimes I just keep clicking these things over and over and have them regenerate new prompts and keep spending tokens just so they think they got a surge in engagement but I couldn't give a fuck less and just want to burn as many of their tokens as possible before I never visit their site again permalink fedilink source parent [–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world -2 points 3 months ago (2 children) TBF I think there is something different between using AI to summarize (where it basically takes the average of articles and compacts them (kind of), which is something they are good(ish) at given what they do is create averages) and AI "generating" content that is the result of that averaging. I mean I hate that it's injected everywhere but slop Ads are worse than slop summaries IMO permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] terranoid@lemmy.cafe 3 points 3 months ago I used to think that but I'm also noticing a pattern where it is just a waste of time and energy. AI generates the big wordy email that sounds super formal. Someone else uses AI to summarize that email. It's like a dumb idea is decompressed and recompressed immediately and unnecessarily. We should never be using AI to do shit like write blogs or lots of words. That should be the human. It should only ever summarize if that's it's purpose. But inevitably, people get lazy and want it to write their article... permalink fedilink source parent [–] snooggums@piefed.world 2 points 3 months ago AI summaries are generation of averaged content. It is literally the same thing with the prompt to summarize. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] terranoid@lemmy.cafe 1 point 3 months ago Sometimes I just keep clicking these things over and over and have them regenerate new prompts and keep spending tokens just so they think they got a surge in engagement but I couldn't give a fuck less and just want to burn as many of their tokens as possible before I never visit their site again permalink fedilink source parent
[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world -2 points 3 months ago (2 children) TBF I think there is something different between using AI to summarize (where it basically takes the average of articles and compacts them (kind of), which is something they are good(ish) at given what they do is create averages) and AI "generating" content that is the result of that averaging. I mean I hate that it's injected everywhere but slop Ads are worse than slop summaries IMO permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] terranoid@lemmy.cafe 3 points 3 months ago I used to think that but I'm also noticing a pattern where it is just a waste of time and energy. AI generates the big wordy email that sounds super formal. Someone else uses AI to summarize that email. It's like a dumb idea is decompressed and recompressed immediately and unnecessarily. We should never be using AI to do shit like write blogs or lots of words. That should be the human. It should only ever summarize if that's it's purpose. But inevitably, people get lazy and want it to write their article... permalink fedilink source parent [–] snooggums@piefed.world 2 points 3 months ago AI summaries are generation of averaged content. It is literally the same thing with the prompt to summarize. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] terranoid@lemmy.cafe 3 points 3 months ago I used to think that but I'm also noticing a pattern where it is just a waste of time and energy. AI generates the big wordy email that sounds super formal. Someone else uses AI to summarize that email. It's like a dumb idea is decompressed and recompressed immediately and unnecessarily. We should never be using AI to do shit like write blogs or lots of words. That should be the human. It should only ever summarize if that's it's purpose. But inevitably, people get lazy and want it to write their article... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] snooggums@piefed.world 2 points 3 months ago AI summaries are generation of averaged content. It is literally the same thing with the prompt to summarize. permalink fedilink source parent
