I live near a fancy mafia family-owned private club here in #NYC and they often throw events that I find tacky and distasteful.Today is exceptional, though:
#Adobe is sponsoring a party for its AI products and they’ve paid for multiple cars with their “Adobe Firefly” (gen AI product) branding to literally drive around narrow busy streets in a circle during rush hour on a Monday.
Oh and all the cars are driven by young women with a ton of makeup.
Ugh.
@mariyadelano Speaking of Adobe, my contempt for them is bottomless, and I was reminded by a random Twitch ad highlighting the AI features of Adobe Acrobat. One of their shiny, whiz-bang examples is—I kid you not—asking the AI to replace all instances of 60 to 70.
Adobe, are you fucking kidding me? You want us to use a rainforest-burning, water-guzzling AI to do basic find and replace? I don’t know what’s worse—that they’re using this as a selling point, or that someone might actually find that compelling.
Anyway, fuck Adobe, and fuck AI. I’m sorry they decided to celebrate their glorious, galaxy-brained ineptitude in your neighborhood.
Mariya Delano
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