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[–] odbol 51 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Is this an ad for something or just trying to spread general fear and panic?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, I’m unclear on whether this is for or against

[–] illah 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s for Intercom per a follow up billboard down the road, thought it was an activist billboard at first.

[–] kautau 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol and still AI chat it’s are like “is your problem with windows 10 or windows 11?”

“Windows 11”

“Great, happy I was able to help you today, please fill out this short survey on how I did”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“I believe you’re mistaken. Windows 11 does not exist, and I’m unwilling to continue this conversation.”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@Gond0r @kautau Was that HAL9000? 😄

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

SF is a tech hub so yes, they're probably a company trying market their AI chat support to other companies.

[–] bingbong 5 points 1 year ago

Just an entity looking for work

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Divine link severed

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (4 children)

One of my favorite parts of living in SF were these dumb billboards. They're so bad - though this one is a bit more dystopian than most.

[–] illah 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only in SF are the billboards for data platforms and AI enterprise services haha

[–] miked 6 points 1 year ago

That section of the freeway always has niche tech billboards. It took me a little while to get used to.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Now most of the billboards are about privacy - we value your privacy, our company keeps your data private, blah blah. From Apple, Whatsapp, and Google rofl. Like "we have always been at war with Eastasia" levels of bullshit.

[–] ultimate_question 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Boston has similar hyperspecific billboards directed at biotech companies

[–] residentmarchant 1 points 1 year ago

That and Rippling! I feel like every trashcan in the city is Ripping or a weed delivery company.

Funny how they both chose the trash cans!

[–] bill_1992 2 points 1 year ago

How many of these billboard/muni and bart ads are by companies who end up failing?

It really seems like the billboard/transit ad is perfect for founders with too much money and not enough marketing sense.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] illah 0 points 1 year ago

So true, a lot of smart people where I work seem to buy the whole “all human knowledge” aspect of GPT models 😬

[–] markstos 8 points 1 year ago

Meh, they already have this job. How many times have you had to go through a text or voice chatbot to get a human already?

Should we complain if these bots actually get more useful and answer our questions faster?

Yes, they will be confidently wrong sometimes. But so are the humans.

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