Love letters between companies are inflating the AI bubble (letters of 😏intent😏)
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December 30, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Love letters between companies are inflating the AI bubble (letters of 😏intent😏)
Reposted by alv.
can't get over the team behind the mcdonald's ad wanting credit for all the late nights and long hours they spent prompting for clips. you've somehow invented a form of ersatz creativity that recreates the suffering inherent to all creative work without any valuable output or intellectual growth
there’s just a certain type of person who would show up to your writer’s group wanting praise for presenting work but violently rejecting any form of constructive criticism that might improve it, and that right there is the target market for AI
December 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
can't get over the team behind the mcdonald's ad wanting credit for all the late nights and long hours they spent prompting for clips. you've somehow invented a form of ersatz creativity that recreates the suffering inherent to all creative work without any valuable output or intellectual growth
Reposted by alv.
Optimism about technology wasn't ceded, it was demolished by tech being used as and actively marketed as a method of oppression and economic ruin, costing more while doing less. An industry can't treat people with contempt and crow about how many people they will put out of work and expect roses.
Ceding techno optimism to the right is a generational scale mistake
December 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Optimism about technology wasn't ceded, it was demolished by tech being used as and actively marketed as a method of oppression and economic ruin, costing more while doing less. An industry can't treat people with contempt and crow about how many people they will put out of work and expect roses.
the goal is replacing the "World Wide Web" (websites) with algorithmic text, plus hyper-targeted ads.
like with the algorithmic feed + ads in social media, i feel that the result will be more political polarization.
like with the algorithmic feed + ads in social media, i feel that the result will be more political polarization.
turtles [ads] all the way down
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December 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
the goal is replacing the "World Wide Web" (websites) with algorithmic text, plus hyper-targeted ads.
like with the algorithmic feed + ads in social media, i feel that the result will be more political polarization.
like with the algorithmic feed + ads in social media, i feel that the result will be more political polarization.
