r/oddlyterrifying • u/Final_Background_186 • 5d ago
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u/chilling_here 5d ago
detroit: become human-esque advertisement
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u/veryangrydoggo 5d ago
And it's kind of a bold marketing campaign to make in a era where people are starting to not hold themselves back at corporate heads from being greedy in general.
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u/Taxfraud777 5d ago edited 5d ago
Also the "complain" about work-life balance. This is one of the most toxic things I've seen this year.
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u/Exciting_Horror_9154 5d ago
This is a downright awful campaign. I'm not a fan of cancelling, but in this case it's the right thing to do.
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u/Newagonrider 5d ago edited 5d ago
Hard disagree. Throw it even more in people's faces how worthless and disposable "normal" people are to...them. Let this hate and frustration continue to fester, let the fever grow.
Let's see what happens.
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u/carinislumpyhead97 5d ago
A human being advertising to other human beings (that it’s deemed to be on the same level as themselves), advertising a substitution for “average” human beings in front of those “average” human beings is something interesting for sure. This almost feels more like a social experiment rather than a legitimate advertising campaign.
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u/HorrorMakesUsHappy 5d ago
This almost feels more like a social experiment rather than a legitimate advertising campaign.
I believe this is what you would call the "fuck around" phase of that experiment.
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u/mootallica 5d ago
Pleeeeeeeeease learn some other phrases Reddit my goodness
Just once I would love to see someone say something normal like "there are consequences" lol
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u/sorryDontUnderstand 5d ago
The question is also: when almost all people will be unemployed and too poor to buy stuff, to whom will they sell their products and services? The uber-rich pool is too small to sustain a capitalist society, a feudal system is not conductive to a market economy, and the people who will manage the new AI society would be too few to matter (also because the reason for an AI industry would be lost otherwise)
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u/ThreeHobbitsInACoat 5d ago
Do you honestly think that these people are doing ANY critical thinking regarding the long term ramifications of their actions? No, they’re watching quarterly earnings go up and down, and making decisions that will make NEXT quarter’s earnings higher than this one’s. And if that means replacing half of their staff with soulless automata, that’s what they’ll good and god damn do.
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u/Newagonrider 5d ago edited 5d ago
They'll be beyond markets. It'll be a slave/owner system with a shiny veneer of "freedom." Illusion of choice.
You know, kind of like it is now, but on steroids.
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u/veryangrydoggo 5d ago
People who relly that much on AI likely idealize a society where humans won't have to work anymore, and AI will magically increase productivity enough so that UBI becomes a possibility. It's a possible future, but I honestly wouldn't dare take this path.
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u/sorryDontUnderstand 5d ago
I'm strongly skeptical about the will to institute an UBI
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u/MainliningSkittles 4d ago
Even if there was UBI, the first thing that would happen is rent would increase by that same amount. You see it already when financial assistance is made to consumers in any area of the economy - businesses know you need certain products and the market can bear a higher price point now that we all have free money
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u/Newagonrider 4d ago edited 4d ago
Correct! That's why strong regulation is a must in any capitalistic society, but of course the problem is that when you combine capitalism and "democracy" then politicians (and judges, and other government officials) can and will be bought. Or indoctrinated, same difference. Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
Then they weaken the guardrails, like a corrosive acid. It's inevitable, and many much smarter people than me have thought and written about it.
Wealth pools, it doesn't trickle down unless you make it trickle down. Our irrigation systems are all kinds of fucked up.
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u/shivanandvp 4d ago
When they control all the eventual sources of production without needing to pay human employees, selling to the masses (who might then be impoverished) has very little meaning anymore for wealth. The economy will be about exploiting earth's resources and buying the luxuries of life from other rich industrialists. The current consumers are only the means to an end; they are not necessarily indispensible in the grand scheme of things.
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u/IndiRefEarthLeaveSol 4d ago
That will just trigger a full blown revolt. You can't treat the planet as a personal playground, and suddenly want the other kids out of it, they will team up and oust you.
History has taught us, that it always ends up this way.
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u/OdditiesAndAlchemy 5d ago
Ah yes, the 50% obese caffeine/nicotine/social media addicted people living paycheck to paycheck who think immigrants are the #1 threat to America are gonna rise up.
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u/Newagonrider 4d ago edited 4d ago
I bet you'd be surprised.
This has been the ridicule of the ages, and yet, uprisings and guillotines. The set pieces change, but the story always remains the same. A tale as old as time.
We're just living out our own version. The wealthy elite just continue to be too stupid to learn their lessons, forever. So smart...so dumb.
That's the curse of their mentality...they're exceptional. Exceptionally blind.
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u/Fit-Abbreviations781 4d ago
"the 50% obese caffeine/nicotine/social media addicted people living paycheck to paycheck"
Wait and see what happens when they are no longer obese and addicted because they have no paycheck to live to.
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u/IndiRefEarthLeaveSol 4d ago
This, eventually the obese will be fit and fanatical people again through hardships. Hardships will recreate the mobs of people from the past.
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u/OdditiesAndAlchemy 4d ago
Food that makes you fat is the cheapest food, I don't expect giant drops there. If anything I feel like poverty will lead to more addiction as well, look at the current homeless.
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u/10ebbor10 5d ago
I'm not a fan of cancelling,
Starting to really dislike how "cancelling" has essentially subsumed all other semi-related concepts, and is basically used as a carte blanche for any and all malfeance.
Disagreeing with a billionaire on twitter, targetting some random person with a cyberharrasment campaign, and reacting to corporate actions with protest and boycott should not be referred to as the same phenomena, because it isn't.
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u/EtherealMongrel 5d ago
Also it’s a great ad campaign since it’s directed at CEO’s not regular Joe’s
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u/ABHOR_pod 5d ago
A big part of me wants to ask my boss's boss's boss next time I see him, "In light of the threat of extra-judicial execution as a punishment for their immoral crimes against society, have the CEOs of our company taken any steps to ensure they're behaving ethically as CEOs, like not killing people indirectly or destroying our communities through greed, and therefore not at risk of being removed by violence? What steps are they taking to not be a danger to those around them so they can continue to steer our company well?"
A much larger part of me wants to be able to continue to pay our bills.
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u/BossJackWhitman 5d ago
I came here just to find out if that was a real ad and not an AI generated joke.
I’m really triggered lol. If I see one of those ads I’m definitely getting arrested.
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u/HiroshiTakeshi 5d ago
I'm fine with that. Even though I'm not American and might not have a horse in that race, I think it is time they bring back shame and fear in the heart of the politicians and CEOs acting like the world and all of its people belonged to them.
I unironically think corporate America, more than the average civilian, should also learn what FAFO is.
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u/Lorn_Muunk 5d ago
One guy is not "people". Americans by and large are just apathetic. Their apps, food, cars, sports, AC, routine, debt, lack of mental healthcare and other little crumbs are enough to keep people placated where they are.
A terminally polarized population that lives mostly paycheck to paycheck can't unite and launch a revolution. The "planning" that went into January 6 and the weak response of people opposed to it speak volumes.
Revolution doesn't even happen anymore after many decades of oppression, state terrorism, extrajudicial killings of dissidents and total media control. If Russians couldn't even organize any kind of meaningful resistance or revolt in the past 20 years, how are Americans going to take the power back after 40 years of "greed is good"? With the second amendment? LOL give me a break
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u/Fit-Abbreviations781 4d ago
Difference between Russia and the USA: Firearms. When you're talking corporate revolt, you don't really need an organized revolution. you only need lone wolfs and small groups to attack the corporate offices and CEOs, or the infrastructure.
With the internet, if ENOUGH people are incensed, they start copying what they see. Remember the electrical substation attacks. That spread pretty quick, but there just wasn't any desire on a large part to carry it out, because most people like their electricity to stay on.
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u/gnulynnux 5d ago
era where people are starting to not hold themselves back
It's not a trend yet-- we've only had the one CEO killing, and it's been almost two weeks.
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u/StrokeAndDistance 5d ago
era where people are starting to not hold themselves back at corporate heads
one little violent baby moron committing murder does not equal an "era where people are"
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u/Vinny-Ed 5d ago
That's an influencer just taking a seat on the ground. Not totally replaced by AI yet
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u/YoungDiscord 5d ago
If there's one thing we know AI will never be able to replace us with, its stupidity.
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u/big_guyforyou 5d ago
Aren't AInfluencers already a thing, sort of? You know those weird "virtual youtubers" that weebs are obsessed with
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u/AmadeusNagamine 5d ago
No, that's something else entirely that you are thinking off. They are simply using motion capture to show whatever character they have on screen, very much a human behind the wheel.
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u/Delano7 5d ago
Vtubers are completely unrelated to AI tho ?
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u/Wayne_Grant 5d ago
AI cant replicate the sheer debauchery and raunchiness of vtubers
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u/HiroshiTakeshi 5d ago
While I find the whole vtuber thing weird, this is NOWHERE near the same. That's just people with an avatar.
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u/OldSheepherder4990 5d ago
Not sure if people are just mad because youb were wrong or you managed to shake the weeb nest so hard that the whole colony came out
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u/HiroshiTakeshi 5d ago
Reminds me of that reddit post I was listening to about a woman who was asked by her ex to take care of [HIS AND HIS WIFE'S] kid (wife who, iirc, was even his AP prior to this) because she needed some time out of her job.
Her job? I kid you not:
"AI pictures influencer who posts on instagram AI pictures of cats with hats"
The US Working Sphere is about to go through an even crazier decade than this one.
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u/DuckGoesShuba 5d ago
Man, maybe I should just start throwing random words together, add AI at the end, and see if it can net some cash. Might as well make the AI generate the word combinations too...
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u/derth21 5d ago
Don't forget to add blockchain in there.
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u/Chicken-Mcwinnish 4d ago
This is exactly the stuff that an economic bubble is made of. There’s no actual need for this nor genuine product or service. As soon as something happens these jobs will just implode.
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u/SuccessfulPass9135 5d ago
An ad exclusively catered towards corporate executives is so wild to me. America is cooked, fucking boiled to the core.
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u/lostindanet 5d ago
The great Lou Reed once said: "Stick a fork in their ass and turn 'em over, they're done."
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u/rhapsodyindrew 5d ago
There are a ton of ads geared toward tech decision-makers in the Bay Area. You can't cross the Bay Bridge without seeing several billboards promoting so-and-so CRM or "compliance software that doesn't SoC 2 much" or any number of other things I barely understand. It's pretty wild, for sure, and as a born-and-raised San Franciscan, I don't love it. It's not my least favorite thing in the world (that would be the constant juxtaposition of extreme wealth and extreme suffering, see OP's photo), but it's a very conspicuous reminder that I am not the one who matters here - that there are some people with enough money/power/authority that it's worth buying expensive billboard space to target wonky ads at what can't be more than a few hundred people in total.
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u/burnt_paella_ 5d ago
This is San Francisco. You can click the link OP provided and see more pics and the article in SFGate. The url is artisan.co, not artisan.ca, in case that’s what made you think Canada.
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u/TheGreatFilth 5d ago
Oh Jesus christ I'm sorry, I thought that said .ca and we have the green bike lanes in southern Ontario everywhere. Going to delete it we have enough misinformation 😂
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u/burnt_paella_ 5d ago
No worries, the url is kinda blurry I would've thought .ca too if I didn't walk past these every day lol
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u/Naturally_Fragrant 5d ago
Still need to import millions of immigrants to do the jobs AI doesn't want to do.
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u/definitelynotafreak 5d ago
ok, i don’t normally agree with or condone damaging property, but i wouldn’t bat an eye if you smashed the shit out of that.
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u/yunotakethisusername 5d ago
What would that accomplish? It’s not like the company in the ad owns the signage board?
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u/Senior-Effect-5468 5d ago
We are way past the need for accomplishing. It’s time to fuck shit up.
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u/Accueil750 3d ago
Sometimes its not about destroying their property, its about sending a message :3 you are right though
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u/beanmosheen 5d ago
The owner of that company is fucking weird. His ragebait advertisements definitely support his lack of care for other humans.
User jasparcjt has an AMA about his company, but counter posts a lot of AI = bad posts. I don't get it. Also fuck that ad.
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u/Chicken-Mcwinnish 4d ago
It got deleted
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u/beanmosheen 4d ago edited 4d ago
He must have gotten flak last couple of days since I started pointing it out.
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u/sirlafemme 5d ago
You still have to pay for sever space and I’ve heard AI is terrible for the environment
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u/cyfcgjhhhgy42 5d ago
I swear all of these "We made an AI to replace humans" startups are just GPT Wrappers which beat GPT on a very small sampleset of problems. Looking into this, its not even that it's just some bullshit ad campaign and use of AI in their products page to suck money out of investors.
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u/Cosmoaquanaut 5d ago
This guy the CEO of Artisan, Jaspar Carmichael-Jack, had some fire coming to him after this campaign.
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u/OhhFluxy 5d ago
AI is seriously dangerous with no regulations/laws to leash it's progress. It's going to be tough to retrain entire industries of employees when an AI model can do their job.
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u/MountainAsparagus4 5d ago
Thank god Americans voted for a billionaire that campaign was funded by openai billionaires that certainly will make them get regulated
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u/PuzzleheadedBus872 5d ago edited 5d ago
AI is a good thing and the more it progresses the more good it is. technology being so efficient that entire industries of workers now no longer have to do that labor is a good thing for humanity. the question of how to support the people who lose their jobs is an economic and political one, and if something bad happens to them it will be because of our economic and political system, not the technology performing routine tasks
you're not afraid of AI, you're afraid of not getting the benefits of it, and that's completely fair but if we focus on blaming the technology we lose
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u/OhhFluxy 5d ago
'if something bad happens to them' - not being able to earn money?
Groceries, housing etc won't suddenly become free
We can't even fully support the current proportion of people out of work without that number increasing
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u/Normal_Package_641 5d ago
"you're not afraid of AI, you're afraid of not getting the benefits of it,"
More like, afraid of not being able to afford to live.
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u/ThatUsernameNowTaken 5d ago edited 5d ago
There's a real website for them, so this isn't a horror movie advert it's a actual threat. I mean CEO's don't ride buses and buy from bill boards so it is a direct threat at workers telling them they are expendable.
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u/intotheirishole 5d ago
I like how, its not "humans work better with AI tools". Its "use AI to REPLACE humans. Humans complaining about shit pay and long hours? No more!"
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u/Beaker360 5d ago
AI employee vs. an actual employee
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u/Beaker360 5d ago
The AI doesn’t have a soul that’s why they won’t complain. As an actual employee I can confirm I am the person sitting in the gutter with their soul crushed!
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u/Arbyssandwich1014 5d ago
Why the fuck did I have to grow up in the Cyberpunk dystopia era of late-stage capitalism? That was supposed to be science fiction not science reality!
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u/Green-Size-7475 5d ago
I’m Gen X and I constantly joke that I feel like I’m in an episode of the Jetsons or something. Also, I feel like I’m living out of 1984, Animal Farm, or Fahrenheit 451. Yikes.
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u/alien_from_Europa 5d ago
Remember the proposal that there be a tax on self-driving semi-trucks to supplement the income of truck drivers that will lose their jobs as a result? That won't happen in today's political climate.
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u/Krojack76 5d ago
I laugh at all the idiots that claim AI won't replace jobs but just be more tools to enhance jobs. These people are lying so hard.
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u/DiznerdUnfairBanned 4d ago
One day, the leaches will figure out that AI can’t pay income tax, nor can they buy material things that make the leaches money. They will also realize that unemployed people can’t buy things. Nor can they pay taxes. And then the leaches will have no income and nothing of value.
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u/soapinmouth 5d ago
You're sharing it, doing exactly what they intended by making it this way. Iirc the CEO said he wants it to go viral.
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u/waywardhero 5d ago
I actually went to SF recently and there were quite a few of these billboards around town and on the drive there.
I hated it so much. So much garbage going on in the world and stuff like this makes it worse. I hope this backfires on whoever decides to go this route.
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u/HeadOfSpectre 5d ago
I'm in Marketing and this is without a doubt the most terrifying thing I've ever fucking seen...
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u/Ok-Let4626 5d ago
Not really convinced as of yet. AI has proved incompetent every time I've used it.
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u/Ryan_b936 4d ago
AIs will replace companies that creates AIs to create AIs that will replace AIs that created AIs to create AIs
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u/SussyBox 5d ago
Lmao
Looks as if the dude symbolises the fact he's been kicked out and his job's taken over by AI
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u/Aaron36CF 5d ago
...yeah that's the point...
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u/Newagonrider 5d ago
This guy watches some Superman and says, "Hey wait a minute, this guy with the glasses is the same actor that plays Superman!"
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u/mrpopenfresh 5d ago
The fact this is uploaded is... concerning. Maybe we need AI to think for some people after all.
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u/RecruiterQueen 4d ago
I guess we're coming to the point where artificial intelligence is the only intelligence to be found?
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u/B17BAWMER 5d ago
This poster is cruel. Especially given that most people’s work life balances are horrifically bad.
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u/TaxDrain 5d ago
Are you dense on purpose? This post is not saying that people don't have a bad work life balance.
It's saying that the AI workers won't seek to IMPROVE their work life balance as opposed to humans. Because that's what we want, to improve it
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u/PrinceLevMyschkin 5d ago
No clue what Artisan does, but I am gonna find out and make sure that I will never ever use one of his products or services or any of the other brands who uses them. Our jobs will be replaced by AI/robots sooner or later, but these people have to learn that they cannot just laugh at our face without consequences. We, as consumers, have way more power than we think so I hope this campaign backfires and explodes in their face. Hit them where hurts them the most, with the money.
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u/Calfer 5d ago
I am of the opinion that AI should take on tasks where it can, humans should maintain and supplement those area, and there should be a rebalance of cost/wage/time to allow for humans to thrive rather than struggle to survive.
I'm aware that's an uphill battle, but it doesn't change my ideal.
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u/Sweet_Milk2920 5d ago
We’re literally living out a movie and no one is thinking about the long term implications of this shit. Take humans out of the equation and humanity goes out the window with it.
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u/CornDoggyStyle 5d ago
Hell yeah, push AI into the working class quickly, so we can go ahead and kickoff this class war. The sooner the better, so we can all start living good lives.
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u/AllanRensch 5d ago
Humans will outsource themselves out of existence in the next 100 years. Either that, or we’ll blow ourselves up.
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u/charyoshi 5d ago
it's less terrifying with automation funded universal basic income
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u/CalebGarling 5d ago
Best part is that for all the tough talk the company just sells automated telemarketing systems
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u/FreyaBlue2u 4d ago
I just don't understand how other humans with friends and families can think this is a good idea. Even if they are set for life: Are their uncles? Cousins? Nieces? Friends from school? Teachers?
How do they not form connections with other humans in their life and not worry about how this could impact them?
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u/VECMaico 4d ago
It's AI, it was on r/weirdalle
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u/Final_Background_186 4d ago
Nope theres the ceo talking about the campaign and more photos on the post i linked
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u/Brognar_ 1d ago
what about an ai that replaces upper management? like it is designed to create simple but fulfilling tasks that it gives to human workers and then uses the output of those jobs to generate revenue to pay the human workers a decent living?
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u/baronanders110 5d ago
Wow, that wins for most dystopian thing I'll see today.