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I just signed up for this genAI summit but the lack of social buzz and the profile of the organizers give me a strange feeling. https://genaisummit.ai/#/ https
by dudus 3y ago
I just signed up for this genAI summit but the lack of social buzz and the profile of the organizers give me a strange feeling.
https://genaisummit.ai/#/ https://genaisummit.ai/#/
I'm afraid this is might be a fake conference created by AI. Am I crazy? I paid $500 for tickets. I almost signed up for the booth.
I'll have to start emailing speakers for confirmation because it's not passing the smell test.
- sajforbes 3y agoI'm a bit confused about your reasons for signing up, but it looks real to me. It could be with all the buzz around AI it really did see a large surge in interest. I'd be interested to hear from the founders and how they managed to grow so quickly.
- fragmede 3y agoIt's listed on the Palace of Fine Arts page, so GPTDAO has booked the space for the event. Last year's event was at SCC, and had 1,500 people, so they're expecting 3,000, not 30,000. I'd email them to tell them about their typo, but it's real. https://www.palaceoffinearts.org/event/genai-summit https://www.palaceoffinearts.org/event/genai-summit
- samename 3y agoInstagram and Twitter links in footer don’t work… I’d do a chargeback with your credit card
- motoxpro 3y agoSame. This is the twitter link https://twitter.com/GPTDAOGLOBAL https://twitter.com/GPTDAOGLOBAL 30,000 attendees for a conference is MASSIVE. Like a GDC or SEMA or something. One of the biggest in the world. Unless it's happened before, then I have a hard time believing they just spun this up out of nowhere. Edit: Would also have more sponsors. 2k to sponsor that/get a booth is WAAAAAY to cheap. Edit2: Also one of the sessions is. "... text2video, text2audio, text2multimodal, text2richcontent" Sounds like a ChatGPT thing. Wild that they used, like you said, Ai, to generate an AI conference and genAI. Very meta
- bainganbharta 3y ago[flagged]
- seabass-labrax 3y agoThat's a needlessly harsh judgement! To use an analogy, one should reasonably be able to attend a forensics conference without ending up as a forensics case themselves. Also, generative AI isn't just for creating fakes.
- themoonisachees 3y agoHarsh judgement maybe but to me paying $500 for tickets to a convention about anything is drinking the kool-aid about that thing.
- nanocode 3y agoI don't know about all conferences, but in my line of work most conferences cost up to $2000 or even more (for example "late tickets" to a conference I'm attending in June cost $3000). I guess enough people (or rather, employers) consider it valuable enough to pay this price.
- themoonisachees 3y agoYes, but you'd not be the one buying the tickets, your employer would. As we know, prices that can be expensed out have a tendency to be considerably larger.
- bigiain 3y agoSome of the best advice ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE Never talk to cops.
- antonvs 3y agoIt says "Sponsored by Microsoft AI Co-Innovation Lab". You could try emailing them (aiotlabs@microsoft.com, from their website) and asking whether they're really sponsoring that conference.
- StevenHarlow 3y agohttps://www.palaceoffinearts.org/event/genai-summit https://www.palaceoffinearts.org/event/genai-summit Has the event listed
- duskwuff 3y agoThe Palace of Fine Arts is a theater, not an exhibit hall. It's a completely unsuitable location for a conference.
- TuringNYC 3y ago>> The Palace of Fine Arts is a theater, not an exhibit hall. It's a completely unsuitable location for a conference. This is not the case -- The Palace of Fine Arts is an excellent conference location - expansive and with mezz levels for private presentations, etc. I've done several conferences there and also presented. It has beautiful outdoor garden spaces for relaxed 1:1s and doesnt feel at all like SF as most people imagine.
- Loughla 3y agoConference, yes. Sales pitch and/or hype presentation, no. It may be real? Edit: down below it says this theater will Host a conference of 30k people. No it won't. This is a scam.
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- bjterry 3y agoI don't think this is true. My startup had a couple desks in the Palace of Fine Arts when they had an ill-fated attempt to convert part of it to a co-working space. They shut down co-working to turn it into a full-time event space. The building is basically one giant room, with a raised mezzanine floating above part of the floor. It has one small permanent theater on the north end, and they convert the southern end into a larger theater for music shows, and this is the seating chart being shown in the above link (I saw a Ninja Sex Party show there one time, but this theater isn't reflected on the tour photos. When I was working there in 2016 it was an exhibit for Hunger Games). https://palaceoffinearts.com/tour/ https://palaceoffinearts.com/tour/
- nickff 3y agoWhy did you sign up for a conference if you’re so uncertain as to its credibility and content? Is this an employer-sponsored outing?
- dudus 3y agoI thought it was cheap. It said last tickets. I don't know ... that was stupid. It looked interesting at first. But when I started to research more I didn't find any buzz. I reported the event to eventbrite
- geraldhh 3y agosounds like you're getting cold feet from a sense of guilt for falling pray to fomo.
- rsynnott 3y agoHuh, I had no idea that people signed up for these things on this basis. Possibly explains why there are so many weird conferences out there; if you build it, they will apparently come, without even first checking what it is.
- soganess 3y agoApparently, it happened in 2023[1] (with a much more modest 1500 people claimed in attendance) but I can't find any photos. Good luck with the charge-back. I'm sure your bank will eventually be accommodating after you explain what happened and jump through enough hoops. [1] https://sv2023.genaisummit.ai/ https://sv2023.genaisummit.ai/ EDIT: I found these photos, but don't have a linkedin, so I can't verify anything about the presenter: https://images.app.goo.gl/UaVfRUAU8YnQrmek6 https://images.app.goo.gl/UaVfRUAU8YnQrmek6 https://images.app.goo.gl/yszbyq8fhEvoHcfi6 https://images.app.goo.gl/yszbyq8fhEvoHcfi6 https://images.app.goo.gl/1ybWTJ4wPhuHt5R16 https://images.app.goo.gl/1ybWTJ4wPhuHt5R16 EDIT 2: It seems to be this person, who appears to have worked at microsoft last year : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMSu0gmlD3w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMSu0gmlD3w Maybe it is fine after all?
- throwaway290 3y agoFake conferences is not a new scam, I saw many of them in 2020 at least. Almost fell for one. It's sad and I feel for you if it's fake but it's probably not "created by AI". (and it would be "created with" at best, it's people who do things)