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We put "stop hiring humans" on billboards, and why we retired it
- JohnFen 2mo ago> "Stop hiring humans" was never a sentence about humans at large, it was a sentence about a category of work. I don't believe a word of it. It seems more likely that they are one of the many genAI companies who basically view people with a kind of contempt. I mean, that's exactly what their advertising was advertising. I think they see that their public stance could make them a target of the ever-growing backlash and are trying to deflect it.
- minimaxir 2mo agoIt is weird for them to simultaneously a) apologize and b) brag about the marketing ROI of the trolling.
- WCSTombs 2mo ago> they are one of the many genAI companies who basically view people with a kind of contempt. It's absolutely this, and they're not even hiding it. It's everywhere in their public presence. - Their now-retired marketing slogan is, of course, openly contemptuous towards people. - Although I don't know all the marketing jargon, if I got it right, their pitch is to have LLMs churn out marketing emails - again, contemptuous toward whomever's on the other end. - This very release is itself AI slop - total contempt toward us, the readers.
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- colesantiago 2mo agoLooks like rage baiting the general public all to get known for not hiring humans and to ultimately anger the public more about AI wasn't a good strategy. A future Roko's basilisk might pleased but not before getting marked on a checklist by a certain super mario brother.