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> “ trying to follow all the modern takes on being non discriminatory AND advertiser AND good PR friendly in every way possible blindly". Which advertisers fin

> “ trying to follow all the modern takes on being non discriminatory AND advertiser AND good PR friendly in every way possible blindly". Which advertisers find the existence of white people undesirable? Its clearly a marginal group of people broadcasting their marginal values.

delfinom 3y ago
That would fall under the non-discriminatory part of its training and whatever "modern takes" it was fed. If it was fed data from pre Musk twitter, lawd there is going to be some bad training data.
mrkstu 3y ago
I dunno, Bud Lite continues to slide into the abyss because the company is more afraid of going against the woke tide and apologizing- it would rather effectively lose in the market than dare to appear insufficiently enlightened.
- unsupp0rted 3y ago
  Anheuser-Busch (Bud Lite) is actively course-correcting. For instance they hired Shane Gillis as their spokesperson/mascot/brand ambassador or something. Think of that what you will, but it does signal they see the problem and understand it's costing them money until they fix it.
unsupp0rted 3y ago
> Which advertisers find the existence of white people undesirable? It's so well understood that a white guy can't be the protagonist or audience surrogate in an ad that even mainstream SNL and Family Guy make throwaway jokes about it. Is there a white judge or doctor in an ad after the year 2000? Or even a non-incompetent white dad? Nobody ever got fired for making the protagonist not-a-white-man. Can you imagine a Canadian government PSA poster at a bus stop where the doctor on the poster is a white man? Largely, I don't mind this. Up until the 70s/80s, the reverse was true. Now the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction. Eventually it'll balance somewhere towards the center, where people of any color, gender or sexual orientation are allowed to be the bumbling fool in an ad.

delfinom 3y ago

That would fall under the non-discriminatory part of its training and whatever "modern takes" it was fed. If it was fed data from pre Musk twitter, lawd there is going to be some bad training data.

mrkstu 3y ago

I dunno, Bud Lite continues to slide into the abyss because the company is more afraid of going against the woke tide and apologizing- it would rather effectively lose in the market than dare to appear insufficiently enlightened.

unsupp0rted 3y ago
Anheuser-Busch (Bud Lite) is actively course-correcting. For instance they hired Shane Gillis as their spokesperson/mascot/brand ambassador or something. Think of that what you will, but it does signal they see the problem and understand it's costing them money until they fix it.

unsupp0rted 3y ago

> Which advertisers find the existence of white people undesirable? It's so well understood that a white guy can't be the protagonist or audience surrogate in an ad that even mainstream SNL and Family Guy make throwaway jokes about it. Is there a white judge or doctor in an ad after the year 2000? Or even a non-incompetent white dad? Nobody ever got fired for making the protagonist not-a-white-man. Can you imagine a Canadian government PSA poster at a bus stop where the doctor on the poster is a white man? Largely, I don't mind this. Up until the 70s/80s, the reverse was true. Now the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction. Eventually it'll balance somewhere towards the center, where people of any color, gender or sexual orientation are allowed to be the bumbling fool in an ad.