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It was a well planned and executed publicity stunt: 1. Maximize attention on social media by being super obnoxious and arrogant ("dawg I ChatGPT’d the license"
by rsp1984 2y ago
It was a well planned and executed publicity stunt:
1. Maximize attention on social media by being super obnoxious and arrogant ("dawg I ChatGPT’d the license")
2. 1 day later while the chatter is still going, write a mea culpa and take on the poor victim role ("grew up in a single mother household on government subsidies")
3. --> Repair most of the reputational damage but keep all the attention.
None of this is illegal, but it's exploiting a system of mutual trust and I wouldn't want to live in a world where everybody acted like that.
- blitzar 2y agoP.T. Barnum once said, “There’s no such thing as bad publicity,” which is almost as good as Oscar Wilde’s version, who put it like this: “There’s only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
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- pilgrim0 2y agoThus is the new norm. It plays well with how the platforms distribute content. I have faith that history will not remember those.