Thomson's individual stringettes! The now string! Now with Ai!
Fuck AI
"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
What's wild is how the end of that sketch reads like an AI prompt
Wait, I see a television commercial. There's a nude woman in a bath holding a bit of your string. That's great. Great! But we need a doctor, gotta have a medical opinion. There's a nude woman in a bath with a doctor. That's too sexy. Put an archbishop in there watching, that'll take the curse off it. Now, we need children and animals. There's two kids admiring the string, and a dog admiring the archbishop who's blessing the string. Uhh... international flavor's missing; make the archbishop Greek Orthodox! Why not Archbishop Makarios? No, no, he's dead. Nevermind, we'll get his brother, it'll be cheaper. There's Archbishop Makarios' brother and a doctor, in a bath, with a nude woman, two kids and a dog- no...
AIP
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI JANET
Still laughing.
It's even worse, lots of ads I see now either use a lot of genAI imagery interspersed with real pics or are entirely genAI'd.
Some of them even do it while saying about how much they're doing for the environment and how awesome they are.
I didn't want to watch ads when they were real pictures, imagine now.