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bigdragon The AI advertising was absolutely over the top Sunday evening. My personal favorite was the commercial where the office workers used AI so that they could have it work while they took a day off. There should have been a follow-up commercial where all the employees were fired for time fraud, AI was fully entrusted to operate the business without human oversight, and then the business shut down due to fleeing customers. I'm convinced the movie Idiocracy was a message from the future and not some parody or comedy entertainment. Reply
DS426 bigdragon said: The AI advertising was absolutely over the top Sunday evening. My personal favorite was the commercial where the office workers used AI so that they could have it work while they took a day off. There should have been a follow-up commercial where all the employees were fired for time fraud, AI was fully entrusted to operate the business without human oversight, and then the business shut down due to fleeing customers. I'm convinced the movie Idiocracy was a message from the future and not some parody or comedy entertainment. I've been thinking about Idiocracy a lot lately… As for the Super Bowl, didn't watch it. I'm not into sports at all. I'm happy that I didn't get clobbered by all the AI buzz. Just as society was kind of starting to get a handle on ransomware, this next wave of compromise is going to be worse as individuals all over expose their account credentials and by extension private and sensitive info — including banking and financial info — by over-trusting and over-relying on agentic AI. All the providers will say it's safe and secure, but talk is cheap . So friends, I implore you to sit tight and allow the security community to vet the safe(r) ones from the rest of the cesspool if you have any interest in this sort of thing. Reply
bit_user I'm glad this article at least explained the point of AI.com. As I recall, the commercial just said something like "AGI is almost upon us. Prepare by securing your handle at Ai.com." And then proceeded to tell you absolutely nothing about what you could do with an AI.com account. bigdragon said: My personal favorite was the commercial where the office workers used AI so that they could have it work while they took a day off. There should have been a follow-up commercial where all the employees were fired for time fraud, AI was fully entrusted to operate the business without human oversight, and then the business shut down due to fleeing customers. I had almost the same thought, except my version was that the boss sees how little everyone now has to work and just gets rid of all but a couple of them. And then I was thinking they'd better hope the slop they got from AI is actually right. Reply
bigdragon bit_user said: I'm glad this article at least explained the point of AI.com. As I recall, the commercial just said something like "AGI is almost upon us. Prepare by securing your handle at Ai.com." And then proceeded to tell you absolutely nothing about what you could do with an AI.com account. YES, THIS! ^ That whole commercial was "do you know who I know?" name-dropping nonsense. That's the sort of talk I expect from someone faking it in the hopes that one day they'll make it. The overload of AI-related advertising and lesser-known names looking to rise to prominence reminded me of the dot-com days — something that's hard for me to forget given that my local stadium was originally known as PSINet Stadium. Reply
thesyndrome Is anyone getting dotcom-crash flashbacks? I read that they bought AI.com for $70 million without actually explaining what to do on AI.com, and all I could think of was Pets.com…. Reply
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