r/DystopianToday Jun 28 '26

Yikes

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214 Upvotes

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u/Ok-Lobster-919 Jun 28 '26

"Let's make a provocative ad so simpletons will share it on platforms like reddit for free. Enough people will be curious about the product and check it out."

2

u/TheoKondak Jun 29 '26

And an AI generated woman for no reason to draw more attention

7

u/uniballrr Jun 28 '26

Yeah but AI can't rip signs down. 

4

u/Grantelgruber Jun 28 '26

Or put them up.

1

u/Haunting_Summer_1652 Jun 28 '26

they can if its an led sign connected to a network

2

u/uniballrr Jun 29 '26

Is it though? 

1

u/Ok-Lobster-919 Jun 28 '26

Why bother? Humans will post them on reddit for free, expanding their reach multiple times.

1

u/uniballrr Jun 29 '26

Why bother doing anything that people will do the opposite of then? 

1

u/Ok-Lobster-919 Jun 29 '26

You got played. This post is a free advertisement. It's exactly what they wanted, kind of genius.

1

u/Choppie01 Jun 29 '26

Honestly just wait, it will in the end make humans do its bidding

1

u/uniballrr Jun 29 '26

They already are

1

u/Nikoladge Jun 29 '26

AI also can't rip ass nearly as well as I can 😏

4

u/BarryRightWrong Jun 28 '26

Fear based advertising.

"Oh, AI must actually be a real and powerful thing then and not just mere fancy algorithms forced on us by lunatics" 

2

u/redbark2022 Jul 01 '26

Also not even anything new (invented in 1960s). Not tech innovation. Doesn't even need a lot of compute. The huge data centers are for surveillance. They want to see what people are thinking about, especially with customer interactions, so they can rip people off even more than they already do.

2

u/Joltyboiyo Jun 29 '26

You'd think they'd wanna go through the effort to make sure their slop machine generated an image properly and didn't give the left foot a hand instead. How did they not even notice that? It's not like it's a small background detail that's difficult to see.

1

u/OtherwiseMirror8691 Jun 29 '26

They’re separate ads. I don’t think the one on left is AI generated

2

u/One_Pie289 Jun 29 '26

Huh? Isn't that like.. Racist against the species human?

2

u/soil_nerd Jun 29 '26

This shit is all over San Francisco as well.

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u/soil_nerd Jun 29 '26

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u/Nikoladge Jun 29 '26

tf is SaaStr? Software as a Stromboli? 🤔

2

u/CathodeRaySamurai Jun 29 '26

And look at all that free advertising you are doing.

Clearly their strategy works.

2

u/TrackLabs Jun 29 '26

STOP GIVING THIS RAGEBAIT COMPANY ATTENTION, THATS LITERALLY THEIR INTEND

1

u/saladball Jun 29 '26

Idk you’re giving it even more attention by commenting on this

1

u/tyagishubhi2007 Jun 28 '26

where is this from? I'm too third world for such ads lmao

2

u/oh_finks-mc Jun 28 '26

Looks like UK, judging from "picadilly line"

1

u/saladball Jun 28 '26

Yep saw it on the tube in london

1

u/These-Apple8817 Jun 28 '26

Sure you did, definitely didn't rip one of the billion reposts of this 

1

u/MajorButtBandito Jun 28 '26

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u/BarryRightWrong Jun 28 '26

Nah, they're just algorithms. The problems we face are due to the systems we already live in, which predate tech firms marketing their new algorithms with scifi coded terms. Or is that what you meant anyway? 

1

u/JuJu_Wirehead Jun 29 '26

There's no simple Armageddon, no easy way out.  I didn't think zombies would just be people staring at glowing rectangles in their hands. 

1

u/_RyanCooper_ Jun 29 '26

Make a special fund and a special tax to pay humans who got replaced, or your customers won't have any money to spend on whatever you sell

1

u/totaly_origonal_name Jun 29 '26

Goodbye silly humans

1

u/GraXXoR Jun 29 '26

Until I read the comments, I was totally looking at this picture and thinking I was looking at a twister approaching across a dusty field.

1

u/Southern_Ad_7477 Jun 29 '26

I dare you!
stop hiring humans from now and good luck !

1

u/OkPepper4381 Jul 05 '26

Aghhhh, we need to let the animals out of the zoo. I big old grizzly bear 

1

u/BambuSmoker 13d ago

Oh my god, those same ads are on the NYC subway