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I figure expectations/behaviors will shift once this becomes the new norm. That 5-second birthday present or shallow prospectus summary will become obvious pret

by sottol 2y ago

I figure expectations/behaviors will shift once this becomes the new norm. That 5-second birthday present or shallow prospectus summary will become obvious pretty soon after a wide uptake and nullify any advantage.

loughnane 2y ago
Novelty is a hell of a thing. There’ll be something equally as hollow coming up next.
TeMPOraL 2y ago
Pretty sure the birthday thing already is obvious. Has been for some 3+ years now - for at least as long as my Samsung Galaxy phone keeps generating this kind of stuff out of random photos in my gallery, on its own, every couple days. Google Photos has effectively been doing the same thing for much longer, too. I mean, all those auto-composed photo slideshows universally suck; you've seen a couple (per vendor), you've seen them all. Easiest way to tell - music. Second easiest way - goofy title, some photos don't match the purported theme. As for the prospectus video - that I suspect would fly, and will fly for many years to come, because whether it works depends entirely on how well this guy can sell it. Being able to talk off skimming the summary of the Cliff's Notes of a book, without the teacher realizing you didn't read the actual thing, is a skill people tend to master in high school.
- recursivecaveat 2y ago
  I see so many ads for tech features that have been around for absolutely forever. I refuse to believe anybody uses a web browser and does not know it can auto-fill info for you, considering you will get a prompt literally every time you enter any password or address about it. The photo-collage thing is ancient, and even ML image-recognition is not new. Likewise credit-card tap-to-pay has been ubiquitous for 10+ years? I feel like the proud ads for this kind of stuff is a weird offshoot of marketing budgets for very solidified product categories.
- conartist6 2y ago
  Correction: people in high school think they've fooled the teacher into believing they've read the book when they haven't. I'm pretty sure most teachers could tell you which of their students actually did the reading.
  - TeMPOraL 2y ago
    > I'm pretty sure most teachers could tell you which of their students actually did the reading. If they could tell but did not, they were derelict in their duties. I chose to believe our teachers were overworked, and some of us were good enough at extrapolating on the go and selling it, than that our teachers cared so little they'd just play along.

by sottol 2y ago

loughnane 2y ago

Novelty is a hell of a thing. There’ll be something equally as hollow coming up next.

TeMPOraL 2y ago

Pretty sure the birthday thing already is obvious. Has been for some 3+ years now - for at least as long as my Samsung Galaxy phone keeps generating this kind of stuff out of random photos in my gallery, on its own, every couple days. Google Photos has effectively been doing the same thing for much longer, too. I mean, all those auto-composed photo slideshows universally suck; you've seen a couple (per vendor), you've seen them all. Easiest way to tell - music. Second easiest way - goofy title, some photos don't match the purported theme. As for the prospectus video - that I suspect would fly, and will fly for many years to come, because whether it works depends entirely on how well this guy can sell it. Being able to talk off skimming the summary of the Cliff's Notes of a book, without the teacher realizing you didn't read the actual thing, is a skill people tend to master in high school.

recursivecaveat 2y ago
I see so many ads for tech features that have been around for absolutely forever. I refuse to believe anybody uses a web browser and does not know it can auto-fill info for you, considering you will get a prompt literally every time you enter any password or address about it. The photo-collage thing is ancient, and even ML image-recognition is not new. Likewise credit-card tap-to-pay has been ubiquitous for 10+ years? I feel like the proud ads for this kind of stuff is a weird offshoot of marketing budgets for very solidified product categories.
conartist6 2y ago
Correction: people in high school think they've fooled the teacher into believing they've read the book when they haven't. I'm pretty sure most teachers could tell you which of their students actually did the reading.
- TeMPOraL 2y ago
  > I'm pretty sure most teachers could tell you which of their students actually did the reading. If they could tell but did not, they were derelict in their duties. I chose to believe our teachers were overworked, and some of us were good enough at extrapolating on the go and selling it, than that our teachers cared so little they'd just play along.