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Some people are shady af. Author should come here and explain.
by yeukhon 8y ago
Some people are shady af. Author should come here and explain.
- chucksmash 8y agoThis isn't a dark pattern, it isn't shady af, and the author should not be called to the rug to answer for it. It's just someone trying to build an email distribution list for their (side?) gig. Feel free to enjoy the content without opting in.
- yeukhon 8y agoOh please. It’s a clickbait at best from my angry engineer tone. It’s shady because the person lure people in to read it and then at the end just day “btw, if you want to see them? Send me your email!” How is that not shady marketing? This is bad press. Bad article. This is killing reader morale. We should not encourage people like this to build their gigs. I felt I wasted my time reading this in the first place.
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- ehnto 8y agoDid you see the pictures? I noticed they didn't show on mobile. The article had a number of them. I imagine they probably generated dozens of them.
- spongeb00b 8y agoHad to browse in landscape - the images went off the right side of the screen but the page won’t allow you to zoom out or scroll horizontally.
- monadgonad 8y ago> How is that not shady marketing? Because you’ve already seen the good content! This blog highlights the most amusing/weird examples of stuff generated by AI. This particular post has 17 - I counted - examples. They’re not presented as a listicle or one-by-one slides, there’s not an advert between each one. This is exactly the sort of content we should be encouraging.
- yeukhon 8y agoNo. I disagree. Just because it has 17 examples doesn’t mean it’s not a markrting strategy.
- monadgonad 8y agoI didn't say it's not a marketing strategy, but it's really not shady. Again, you've already seen the best content. The rest is an optional, barely-mentioned extra.