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gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

During the Super Bowl, Anthropic ran a dystopian AI ad about dystopian AI ads featuring an AI android physical trainer hawking insoles to a user who only asked for an ab workout. Not to be outdone, Amazon ran a commercial for its AI assistant Alexa+ in which Chris Hemsworth fretted over all the different ways AI might kill him, including severing his head and drowning him in his pool. Equally bleak, the telehealth company Hims & Hers ran an ad titled “RICH PEOPLE LIVE LONGER” in which oligarchs access such healthcare luxuries as facelifts, bespoke IVs, and “preventative care” to live longer than the rest of us. It was an anti-billionaire ad by a multibillion-dollar healthcare company.

Turn on the TV today, and you will drown in a sea of ads in which capitalists denounce capitalism. Think of the PNC Bank ads where parents sell their children’s naming rights a la sports stadiums for the money to raise them

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has anybody footage of these videos? i’d be very curious

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Zanathos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I saw the Chris Hemsworth one on YouTube the day after the bowl. It really made no sense to me as a “buy Alexa” add because all of the outcomes are very possible at some point with misguided or badly deployed code.

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- ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I saw it too. It also made no sense because his fears are not addressed in any way. He lays out all these intense concerns about AI in his home and the result is literally having the AI go “oh hey don’t worry about that here’s a thing to distract you”, he takes the bait, and then it just ends.
  
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