Mike CohenFuck this.
Jonas Wisser@mikec415 The sort of ad that makes you wish you could call in an airstrike on the building supporting it.
Ozzie D, NP-hard 
@mikec415 stomach turning.
Guill.Jones, Honorary Canadian@mikec415
So why are they showing human-looking faces?
So why are they showing human-looking faces?
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Gabriele Romano
Simon ZerafaComing to a billboard in your area soon 🤨
just small circles 🕊@mikec415 agreed.
Though OTOH this might also be quite effective as an awareness raising campaign of an anti-AI activism group. "Wake up, people, don't let them break things this time!"
Linker3000@mikec415 What put up the poster?
Tony
Ronan
Sharlatan@mikec415 it looks like a sales platform to replace brain dead anyway https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/artisan
Artisan: AI Employees Called Artisans, Starting With An AI BDR | Y Combinator
AI Employees Called Artisans, Starting With An AI BDR. Founded in 2023 by Jaspar Carmichael-Jack, Artisan has 30 employees based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Artisan is hiring for 9 roles in operations, marketing, design, sales, and engineering.
Murdoc Addams 🧛🏻
🇨🇦@mikec415
Is this even real? Because it makes no sense. First of all, why advertise "don't hire humans" and then show smiling humans? But more than that, the target audience is clearly other businesses, so why place this on a billboard? Billboards are for reaching large groups of consumers. And in a residential area no less? Lots of CEOs live in this neighborhood that couldn't be more narrowly targeted?
This would make more sense if it was fake, designed to invoke the very responses we're seeing in the comments here. Then it all makes sense.
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OK, so I just checked it out. It is real, and not. I mean, it was put out by that company, but indeed as rage-bait:
"We didn’t expect people to get so mad. The goal of the campaign was always to rage bait, but we never expected the level of backlash we ended up seeing.
Luckily, the people who were mad aren’t our target audience. We target tech companies, and the vast majority of people who work at and run tech companies loved the campaign. We received 100s of messages of support and 1000s of sales meeting bookings from people in our ICP.
Finally, we learned that when something works, double down. Each time the campaign got attention, we amplified it instead of retreating. This turned critics into unwitting marketing allies and kept the momentum going far longer than we expected."
From: https://www.artisan.co/blog/stop-hiring-humans
Congratulations humans, your anger has been successfully turned into profit. Good job.
Falling forward 🌵@mikec415
The first question which I had was why are billboards allowed on the sides of residential buildings?
The second one is, is that real? Which I see others are also asking.
Christopher Brown@mikec415 Is that a mailbox on the roof?
Walk-Ins welcome application on a second floor window?
Dark Photon Studio@mikec415 It would be fine if people didn't have to work. Honestly, we all know whatever job they might replace, probably sucks. AI should do all the shit jobs. If it's satire, they should try harder. The entire fucked up system of neoliberal capitalism is enhancing all the worst inclinations of humanity.
Icil
Andres@mikec415 *blows some dust off the billboard, simpsons-Kang-style*
"Stop Hiring Human CEOs"
How to Cook for Forty Humans
How to Cook for Forty Humans is a cookbook that the Rigellians keep in the kitchen of their spaceship. The book is a guide for preparing meals for large groups of humans. Serak the Preparer referred to it while preparing meals for the Simpson family when they were on board the ship.