Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction | TechCrunch
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David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.
    • undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch
      6·
      2 days ago

      Yeah seriously, there’s not a single reason for them to exist. “Our goal is to harvest users’ personal data and sell it for profit!”

      Zero benefit to humanity, just soul-sucking abhorrent people doing disgusting shit.

      • GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        And I’m sure they employ a huge number of really talented people. imagine if all those engineers, designers, lawyers, etc. were set toward solving real problems and improving the world instead of ruining it further for profit…

  • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
    81·
    2 days ago

    Pushing through the market square

    So many mothers sighing

    News had just come over

    We had five years left to cry in (cry in)

    .

    News guy wept and told us

    Earth was really dying (dying)

    Cried so much his face was wet

    Then I knew he was not lying (lying)

    .

    I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies

    I saw boys, toys, electric irons and TVs

    My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare

    I had to cram so many things to store everything in there

    .

    And all the fat, skinny people

    And all the tall, short people

    And all the nobody people

    And all the somebody people

    I never thought I’d need so many people

    .

    A girl my age went off her head

    Hit some tiny children

    If the black hadn’t have pulled her off

    I think she would have killed them

    .

    A soldier with a broken arm

    Fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac

    A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest

    And a queer threw up at the sight of that

    .

    I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour

    Drinking milkshakes cold and long

    Smiling and waving and looking so fine

    Don’t think you knew you were in this song

    .

    And it was cold and it rained, so I felt like an actor

    And I thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there

    Your face, your race, the way that you talk I kiss you, you’re beautiful, I want you to walk

    .

    We’ve got five years, stuck on my eyes

    Five years, what a surprise

    We’ve got five years, my brain hurts a lot

    Five years, that’s all we’ve got

    .

    We’ve got five years, what a surprise

    Five years, stuck on my eyes

    We’ve got five years, my brain hurts a lot

    Five years, that’s all we’ve got

    .

    We’ve got five years, stuck on my eyes

    Five years, what a surprise

    We’ve got five years, my brain hurts a lot

    Five years, that’s all we’ve got

    .

    We’ve got five years, what a surprise

    We’ve got five years, stuck on my eyes

    We’ve got five years, my brain hurts a lot

    Five years, that’s all we’ve got

    .

    Five years

    Five years

    Five years

    Five years

  • MasterBlaster@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 days ago

    Another article in which we find that the people who are making things in this country are building the things that science fiction authors wrote about to stop people from doing such things. Yup, they saw the horrors and they just smiled and thought “Cool!”

    Colossus the Forbin Project, I Robot (the literature and the movie), Running Man ,The Matrix, Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Rollerball, And of course Minority Report.

    These are all good works of fiction, either literature or movies, that apparently our business elite has decided is what we need to make Real.