Hear hear

More sugar

Op, please find a different hobby. Ads are NOT what we need more of on the internet.

Nerds still are smarter than us.

Unfortunately a cult of managers has arisen to rule over the nerds and they hype with an iron fist.

Always have been, apparently

Great deal. Thanks, marketing!

Yeah, this has definitely happened before, we just don’t hear about it in the news. I am personally aware of a Canadian non-profit whose Google accounts were nuked with no notice or explanation last year, leading to massive disruptions for 150 staff and even more clients. They never found out why, and had to restore from backups onto a brand new Google business account

This helps nobody, and whoever thinks it’s a good idea needs better time management skills.

Most of the VPs in my local Corpo are all politicians. They speak in buzzwords and value hearing themselves speak over hearing any feedback from people lower than them in the hierarchy. The disconnection between upper management and everyone else is greater than it’s ever been and it’s only getting worse.

If it’s like a lot of other tech companies, likely this was posted in a questions thread during a large meeting, and while everyone can see the questions being posed, Execs pick and choose which questions they’re interested in answering, ignoring the ones they don’t like. It’s a good way of determining employee morale while avoiding all accountability.

But what percentage of fake birds are real fake birds?

I’ve never heard of anyone screaming because they had to scan their own groceries at a self-checkout. Is this a common thing?

For consumers, “enshitification” is a reminder of how things get worse. For companies, apparently it’s a delightfully new lower bar to aspire to. This is some Darkest Timeline kinda BS

Ewwwwwwww

It’s simple, then:

We ban ads. All ads, everywhere.

Sooooo stupid

Corporations like Google are literally unjust power structures, and when they do DEI, they update the aesthetics of the corporation such that they can get credit for being inclusive but without addressing the problem itself.

Absolutely, 100% on the nose. And this needs to be a conversation on a civilizational level before income inequality spirals further out of control and our society devolves into chaos. Corpos like Google are so busy pretending that they’re addressing problems that the larger issues affecting people aren’t being talked about at all.

Worth it for them, for short term profits. Good thing nobody is considering the net effect this has on society or political discourse.

When outrage is the prime driver of engagement it’s going to push some people right off the platform entirely, and the ones who stay are psychologically worse off for it.

Yes and No. That Wacom Dragon legitimately looks awful; its tail a messed up, nonsensical mess. I think the problem isn’t as much just “AI art” as it is “awful art”, because if a human had made it, it would have been absolutely better; it would have made sense at the very least. Instead you have middle managers trying to cut corners and the end result is an insult to creative workers everywhere; and the managers and marketers who approved this said “meh, good enough” and didn’t even try.

That’s the most insidious part of AI Art used in marketing, a race to the bottom in terms of quality that leads to crap being thrown in consumers faces because creative, knowledgable people aren’t being included in the conversation.