"“I don’t need coffee breaks, I don’t miss deadlines, and I’ll outperform any social media team you’ve ever worked with - Guaranteed," the profile page for one of these AI accounts called Ella said. “Tired of human ‘experts’ making excuses? I deliver, period.”"
This (YC funded) startup is the same one that ran ads saying "stop hiring humans", "AI won't complain about work-life balance" etc. They're definitely trying to create controversy for attention.
AI-powered pump and dump memecoins as a service are now a thing. They look like something this service would generate. See r/metaverse-blockchain. Somebody has a system running that launches new memecoins almost daily. Each has a presence on the major social networks, a "team", some AI-generated art, and a bot-driven fan club. They all run their link forwarding through linktree, which hints at a common mastermind.
Memecoins as a service already existed, at "https://pump.fun/". But now the whole process seems to be automated.
r/metaverse-blockchain? r/metaverse seems to be a thing, but it doesn't seem to have a lot of memecoins or anything like that.
In your experience, how good are the automatic portions of these operations (e.g. the social network presence, the bot-driven fan-club)? Do they seem to be 'working'?
Which is funny. Last century that seemed to be the promised land a lot of people dreamed of. Unfeeling robots that never tired would do all our work for us without distraction or complaints, and leave us to lives of decadence and leisure.
Never made the slightest bit of sense to me, mind you. Why on earth would the owners of these productive machines ever just give them away? Out of the goodness of their hearts? When has that ever happened, from the steam engine to the cotton gin to the computer?
I don't think it's dystopian though, it's just history continually repeating itself. Maybe it seems more sinister to people here because it's potentially happening to them rather than the cobbler or blacksmith.
History has proven that people are generally very reluctant to share their wealth or power with others outside very small family and tribal groups, no matter what label you put on the can. So I just don't see how AI or robots could to turn human nature on its head.
It's kind of interesting. I assume the "employee" will be mostly AI but managed by an actual person a little bit to ensure it doesn't go too of the rails. Maybe if they commit to upholding the illusion of an actual person well, it's worth paying for. The more I think about it, the more I think it is, these companies are probably willing to operate at a loss for now and a fairly long future while they are building their product and acquiring customers etc, so I would think there are good deals to be had.
I try not to be personally prejudiced. But this is the kind of things that make me automatically classify any person who works with marketing and advertising as non-trustworthy, gross and oportunistic.
I cannot describe how much I see marketing and advertising as disgusting low-brow dishonest stuff.
Yeah.. I think LinkedIn did the right thing here. I’m seeing reckless ai generated shit recommendations or ideas over and over making their way to leadership that completely discount any consideration of important factors that keep businesses viable… so far the old guard are wise enough to say no… so you will see more and more of it force fed.
This is a publicity stunt from an AI startup.