"We thought building a cardboard airline in a treehouse sounded more honest."
  • THB@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Nice to see. I’ve unsubscribed from businesses I used to support for using AI in their marketing

  • Null User Object@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 days ago

    “We started noticing consumers weren’t rewarding polish the way brands thought they were,” said Chookie founder Zev Ziegler

    Ummmmm…

    One of its AI ads was rife with misspellings and terrifying, googly-eyed chocolate bars. Another of them shows an AI-generated figure producing the cookie bars in what appears to be lab.

    I don’t think “polish” means what you think it means, Zev.

  • vapordays@leminal.spaceEnglish
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    7 days ago

    “charming” ads

    “We thought building a cardboard airline in a treehouse sounded more honest.”

    I don’t think they know what “honest” means

    • 7101334@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 days ago

      It’s a small snack company stranger, not fuckin Palantir. I reflexively hate advertisements too, but given that I am occasionally forced to overhear them or god forbid witness them with my own eyes, I would take something human over something slop-generated any day.

      • vapordays@leminal.spaceEnglish
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        7 days ago

        I don’t enjoy every company pretending to be super cute and trigger our buttons to sell its most likely bullshit ass product which is “honestly” most likely totally unrelated to the advertisement they are pushing in our face

          • vapordays@leminal.spaceEnglish
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            5 days ago

            Exactly. Every company is utterly bullshitting us, even the “mom n pop cookie companies”

            • 7101334@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              5 days ago

              Not necessarily, and even if so, there are so many more important things to be angry about

              • vapordays@leminal.spaceEnglish
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                4 days ago

                Maybe most people are not angry enough (or aware enough) about how deceptive, manipulative, continuously invasive, and disturbing to our daily lives advertisements are. Don’t let off some business because their advertisement is “cute.” They just want you to buy their shit.

                • 7101334@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                  4 days ago

                  Yeah… I know. I adblock everything, I would never see it to begin with lol, unless it’s somewhere public and unavoidable. But I’m not really bothered about buying cookies from some small business. So long as capitalism exists (and I’m eager for it to not exist, but for now it does), I have to eat and regular people need to earn money.

                  You can’t exist in a solely ideological paradigm. You have to be pragmatic while working towards bending the world towards something better.