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Sy TaffelI find it oddly comforting that tech corporations are now straight up advertising their vision of dystopian individualism where all your friends have been replaced by their chatbot.
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🟥 Eveline Sulman 🇳🇱🇪🇺🇺🇦
fritzoids30 friends! That would be too many for me. I'd love to know what that person did to loose 27 friends in one year, though.
Also: Why do the "friends" all look like they are missionaries?
@fritzoids some kind of techbro pyramid scheme involving bitcoin?
Perhaps it's surprisingly perceptive advertising that recognises AI mostly appeals to sociopaths who systematically alienate themselves from others with their shitty behaviour?
Deborah Pickett@fritzoids @sy Everyone’s white in the pic. Coincidence? Or did the poster lose 90% of their friends for showing their white supremacist arse in late 2023? We’ll never know.
y2k38
HollieK
Ω 🌍 Gus Posey@sy How I loathe this brave, new world.
Hippo 🍉
kralcttam ☕️@sy like the Apple “crush” commercial, crushing every human art and interest.
ratfactor
FoolishOwl@sy A lot of people believe the cure for alienation is more alienation.
ROTOPE~1 
@foolishowl no, what you need is 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 alienation. Higher fidelity alienation. HDR 8K 3D Dolby 7.1 IMAX alienation.
Aral Balkan@sy Sociopaths, the lot of ‘em.
masukomi
a fish named dog 🎗️✡️♾️@aral @sy I'm an introvert but that vision sounds absolutely miserable! Also the design makes me think of a black hole sucking in the person's friends.
And it's also hilarious that they're running on "consistent" when AI is both a cash burning machine and a prime example of enshittification (despite already being shit).
And it's also hilarious that they're running on "consistent" when AI is both a cash burning machine and a prime example of enshittification (despite already being shit).
Enara 
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Alex P. 👹
Rob van Kan@sy This comes after that paper proving that we don't change opinion on the basis of some article, but on the basis of *what our friends think*
Wyatt H Knott@sy I'm enjoying that their logo is a target.
Timothy Wolodzko
Philip Mallegol-Hansen@sy How weird is it to imagine there is someone out there who looks at this, and not only goes "Eh okay whatever" but actually thinks "YES! This is it! This will work! They will looooove this!".
Silicon Valley needs some serious group therapy sessions. Maybe we can all pitch in to cover the costs.
Garrett Wollman
Sheogorath@sy When you lose 27 friends in 1 year, you should probably ask yourself what is going on with you 👀
And of course, startups do have a track record of staying around longer than life long friends, right?
Dieu
arceuthobium
John Colagioia@sy In this micro-horror story, did they murder people to force us to use AI, or did people stop talking to us because we kept talking up AI even though it provides no discernible benefits...?
okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin@sy
Galaxy.ai IS PEOPLE!!!!!!!
Galaxy.ai IS PEOPLE!!!!!!!
Григорий КлюшниковThat's so unbelievably cringy. I wish them, and the entire AI industry, a pleasant bankruptcy.
groff
Yusef Napora@sy it seems that Galaxy AI, the largest friend, did the logical thing and simply ate the other friends
Elias Probst@sy my 3 friends from 2024 will still be there, when the VC-fueled AI bubble bursts and Galaxy.ai is no more!
Ovidi Nawer@sy I think they're using the common strat of being outrageously wrong so when they do something that seems less stupid/evil we feel like it isn't enough to worry.
Moving the goalpost but using our emotions.
It's the same as the 10 dollars horse armor to the "we all fucking hate DLCs, ship your games complete" or the Ahri 200 euro skin to "the old 20 euro skins are ugly, remake them" or the "we're going to buid a wall" to the "you're insane"
Moving the goalpost but using our emotions.
It's the same as the 10 dollars horse armor to the "we all fucking hate DLCs, ship your games complete" or the Ahri 200 euro skin to "the old 20 euro skins are ugly, remake them" or the "we're going to buid a wall" to the "you're insane"
damianwalsh@sy At a glance, that graphic appears to show people being pulled into a black hole.
Baron Henrik von Pömpöösi
Oliver SchafeldThis chart must be a real adoption and motivation booster on the lower decks.
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(Wondering if anyone in management realizes, that *their* corporate logo is gone from the picture too.)
Sander van Rossen🇺🇦@sy and this chatbot would never be used by its master to push certain agendas noooo...
imagine how easy it is to manipulate people when all they have is their chatbot friend
indigoviolet 
@sy its impossible to write cyberpunk
Mees
StreetDogg@sy You can tell this is false advertising because apparently last year they ran a similar ad campaign and now they are clearly admitting they failed to deliver their previous target for 2024. Also, 2023 went significantly better than anticipated according to these, uhm, statistics.
Laurens 🐐
Jennifer Moore 😷Is it definitely a genuine ad and not satire?
@sy Waiting for a porn site to pick it up and use as their ad: "The evolution of my love life".
Leah
refraction 
@sy will their chat bot hug us? help us when we need it? oh is just gonna let us die? yeah makes sense
PaulaToThePeople 😷@sy Friends come and go, but you can't get rid of AI.
Yeah, they are petty on the nose.
Ryek DarkenerAccording to the phrase: If you’re the most intelligent person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.
Floreana
Astara@sy This is where it has been going for quite a while now, especially since "social" media has replaced real life interactions. I can only recommend seeking out physical "third places" like sports clubs, hack-spaces, community centers, pubs, churches – Whatever you prefer, really – to avoid this fate for yourself and for our societies. We have to stabilize these social organizations before they vanish. They're the backbone of our democracies.
wall-e / Daniel@sy they know that sad lonely young males are the primary target group of the neo-fascist parties that enable their business models...so gotta keep growing that crop
⚡ Hefka le Nekopunk ⚡@sy Out of context, it would have be a painful clash. Too bad, with the context that's really... disturbing
Katze kratzt@sy just proves that techbros don't have any real friends lol