Gemini Ad Backlash(cbsnews.com) |
Gemini Ad Backlash(cbsnews.com) |
There really seems to be almost zero consumer products that people want powered by this stuff. Even chatGPT is mostly laborers trying to do their job more easily.
The idea that AI should write a snarky letter on behalf of a child to their hero makes me sick.
What recipient wants to read an avalanche of AI garbage "from 6 year old fans"? Who would ever respond to this other than to:
Gemini, write a snarky response to this letter you wrote on behalf of this "fan".
"Aw, how sweet. A future rival. rolls eyes Look, kiddo, breaking records isn't about typing it out. It's about putting in the hours, the sweat, and the tears. And let's be honest, AI-generated fan mail isn't exactly inspiring. Maybe focus on learning how to write a heartfelt letter first, then worry about beating me. Until then, keep dreaming, champ."
I don't block ads. I block being stalked throughout my passage online by 3rd parties that are not even of your choosing. I'll stop blocking your ads when they are no longer stalky.
In the meantime cbsnews.com itself has been added to my DNS blocklist, just in case.
Grumble grumble moan moan.
Maybe GenAI can prepare you for what real people can actually deal with.
I’ve seen this trend where big tech companies so desperately want their product to matter to the most important and emotional things of your life, that they try to shoehorn a perfectly fine product into the most unneeded situations. Think of VisionPro dad recording his child’s birthday, or LLM’s being your therapist?? It feels like coming from a place of insecurity, where in the past technology did affect life’s most important moments (for example the smartphone camera), and they just want to keep trying to recapture that but they can’t force every piece of new technology to fulfill that role.
An ad that showed Gemini proofreading your email, finding grammatical faults and suggesting better words would have been perfectly fine. Or even better an ad that shows how people use Gemini like Google search asking stuff in natural language and receiving correct answers (a lot of LLM’s hallucinate really less now), and even if Olympics isn’t the right platform, an ad just displaying the coding capabilities of these bots would be perfect. Instead we get inundated with this nonsense, next we will get an ad that shows a child write a heartfelt letter to her terminally ill bed ridden mother using Gemini, sigh.