Bonus: Alex Hirsch is the creator of Gravity Falls

  • Ike@lemmy.zip
    2561·
    6 天前

    Why is he so interested in having people upload schedules of what their kids are doing?

    • cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works
      109·
      6 天前

      Avoiding the obvious reference to fiddling, I think these tech companies need kids to be as reliant and addicted to their products as possible. TikTok and Youtube were the trailblazers in the electronic addiction economy.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
        9·
        5 天前

        funny thing is the techbros own kids are shielded away fromthe brainrot, they made sure they go to montiserri private school away from tech. they need future customers, not thier own kids, which would have thier own agency.

    • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
      45·
      6 天前

      Adults are stubborn and set in their ways. Kids are easier to mould to new ideas.

      If they can get the kids hooked on AI tools, they’ll run with it until they’re old enough to be making the decisions and by then they’ll want the tools they’ve grown up using: AI.

      It’s a marketing strategy, and an effective one at that.

      That, and Altmans probably got a comfortable seat on the Epstein list.

    • FavouriteShapes@sh.itjust.works
      14·
      5 天前

      He’s kind of the most evil business man ever, because:

      • he believes/knows climate change to be real
      • he understands that society reducing its energy consumption has the power to reduce or reverse climate change
      • nonetheless, Sam Altman sells a product that does almost nothing, (certainly doesn’t do what it says on the tin very well)
      • and is relying on everyone massively increasing their energy consumption to power the roll-out of this.
    • Trump Rapes Kids@lemmy.world
      25·
      5 天前

      Because they want the next generations to be as completely addicted to and reliant on their product for everything as possible. And because he’s rich, and has rich friends, so… you know. :/

    • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
      117·
      6 天前

      The actual, boring answer is because family calendars can get complicated quickly and then ore people are involved and updating them the easier it is to miss something. So the use case of “will help you keep track of what the fuck is going on” is a legitimate advertising angle.

      In an absurd sense, it’s similar to the “oops, we forgot to put the safeties on and our super clever bot totally autonomously did something insanely sophisticated. Don’t worry, we fixed it though”. Anything sophisticated enough to stalk and harass a journalist is more than capable of planning a meeting.

      Anything capable of putting together a podcast about everything going on is more than capable of actually sending you a reliable reminder for a doctor’s appointment for your second kid that you weren’t told about, or letting you know that you’re not free Wednesday at 1 when talking with the repair person.

      • julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.works
        12·
        5 天前

        I have two young kids, complicated health and a demanding international job. A simple calendar app is more than adequate. No “intelligence” required. And why is your bot listening in to your discussion with the repair person, did you ask their permission first? What else is it listening to, and who is profiting off that information?

        I get that it’s a fun toy, but you really have some big blind spots to paint this stuff as acceptable, let alone desirable.

        • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
          4·
          5 天前

          Oh, I didn’t say it was acceptable or desirable. I guess that’s why the downvotes.

          I think that’s what they’re advertising, as opposed to the people who think it’s a deep plot to hook kids or something.

          The free shared group calendar that comes with my stuff is all I use for a similar setup. Only thing I wish it had was a better ability to notify me if someone else added an event, since I regularly have conversations with contractors or whatever where I say anytime should be fine, and then immediately have to backpedal when checking the calendar.

          But for clarification, I don’t want what I described and I don’t think they can actually do most if any of what they imply with these backhanded advertisments.
          I just think “manage the schedules of a busy family” is one of the most tried “wholesome” advertising gambits.

  • ol_capt_joe@piefed.eeEnglish
    108·
    6 天前

    Imagine sitting around all day thinking of every way to stop people from thinking for themselves 🤯

  • guitarfosec@infosec.pubEnglish
    6·
    4 天前

    Anyone who would willingly listen to an AI-generated podcast is a person I have zero interest in ever interacting with. I feel like once you learn someone is actually doing that, a serious intervention is required.

    • Magnum, P.I.@infosec.pub
      2·
      4 天前

      Calling something out to be the plot of a fictional television series inside of a fictional universe and television series is wild stuff.

  • N-E-N@lemmy.ca
    41·
    5 天前

    When I first read this I didn’t think anything of it cause I thought it was some rando

    Now I’m realizing it’s Sam Altman 😭

  • ddplf@szmer.info
    21·
    5 天前

    On the instant I knew this was a satire.

    Then I looked who the OP was.

    Fucking can’t make this shit up.

    • nieminen@lemmy.world
      5·
      4 天前

      There are versions of these machine learning and statistical programs that are making headway in all sorts of medical research. That was, and is still happening.

      I am starting to think that this whole ai push, along with making all these companies insane amounts of money at the cost of regular folks, is ultimately to further attack the human intelligence. The number of people I know personally and secondhand that let chatgpt make all their decisions, even the simplest ones. And they’ll use it as a truth source, treat it like a person (it’s not even anything close to approaching intelligence). It’s going to go poorly for us as a whole.

    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
      20·
      6 天前

      Right? It’s not like the kid’s soccer game is part of the AI’s programming, it won’t know anything about it that you don’t tell it. It can’t go over who they’re playing against, or give their record so far, or provide any other new information about it, so what exactly is it going to say?

      Then the birthday will still be “coming up” every day until the day itself arrives, so what is there to say about that that would be interesting and new on a daily drive?

      That just leaves “some news,” at which point you might as well turn on the radio, or put on a real podcast.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      18·
      6 天前

      Doesn’t matter so long as Altman just got geographic time stamps of where you your spouse your children and what activities they like to participate in at all times.

    • Gorillazrule@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      5 天前

      That’s what I was thinking about. In theory there could be a cool idea here. But using AI to do it would just give shitty results. But you could actually do a little research and find a few short articles or stories about things your kid is interested in, and then feed them into a decent TTS and edit it together like a podcast. Then where they would normally take a pause for an ad read have a little shout out wishing your kid a happy birthday or wishing them luck on their exams or competition or whatever. I think it could actually be pretty neat, and give you something to chat about while you listen, and having the little personalized messages would feel like magic to the kid, because it’s kind of like getting a shout out on Radio/Television. It can be exciting and make you feel bigger than just your small social bubble. It’s exciting to have a little 30 seconds of fame.

      But obviously Altman is just grasping at straws to shill his product, and hasn’t put this much thought into it.

    • terranoid@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      9·
      5 天前

      Garbage in garbage out

      Likely all anyone puts in the calendar is “Simon’s basketball game” so it will at best reference basketball and Simon playing it and have some fake podcaster say, “And don’t forget about that basketball game at 8pm!”, and at worst invent/hallucinate tons of details it could never know.

      One thing that worries me is even the c level executives offer the worst ideas when it comes to AI and their own AI products. Like, AI can manage to do a lot of useful stuff, but also a lot of terrible use cases… This being one. It takes 1 minute to glance at your week’s schedule. An AI podcast invites the worst kind of hallucinations. Whenever you give it a tiny bit of information and expect more back than you gave it like upscaling, you invite the worst hallucinations and inaccuracies.

      The fact that they’re still struggling to make it sound relevant means they don’t even believe in it as much as they’re trying to sell it. Bubble is bound to pop soon with this sort of weird behavior… Seems like a year ago they were talking about the machine god being here by now, and now they’re like “hey did you know this thing can make a fake podcast?” Yeah I fucking knew that, it was a stupid use case 2 years ago and it’s a stupid use case now.

      • Malfeasant@lemmy.world
        5·
        5 天前

        It’s funny, my job has been pushing AI hard for a couple years now… So I’ve been using it on them. I had it write my year end review 2 years ago, because I absolutely hate that I have to do that rather than my manager, and it was all bullshit, but I got a good raise. Last year I tried to be honest, and ended up half assing it, but because I was doing well and everyone knew it (so arguably I shouldn’t need a year end review in the first place) I got a promotion and another big raise. Now I’m using it to write my goals, another thing that I hate having to do myself, but the problem is, by now I don’t want to put any effort into it, so it’s half assing it, and what it put together sounds great, but there’s no way to measure it, therefore no way to achieve the goals… By the time I put the effort into giving it the data it needs to make something useful, I could have just done it myself…

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
      3·
      5 天前

      Ever stumble across one of those totally AI YouTube video, with the professional sounding voice that pronounced words oddly, or emphasizes phrases in a weird way? They go on and on about some subject without really saying anything, making empty pronouncements with florid language?

      Like that. The podcast equivalent of flavorless gummy bears.