Native advertising for the uninitiated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_advertising

John Oliver has a good bit on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_F5GxCwizc

What the fuck is IgniteTech?

It’s like the skievier part of DoorDash listings, where they’d list restaurants that weren’t on the platform, make deliveries for them and send angry customers to them when DoorDash fucked it up.

It might work for a bit but it’s gonna fizzle out if they decide to overcharge for popcorn and coke to the point it costs $100+ to watch one video game.

I have a feeling that’ll shift in the next few years.

When things are great, everyone is hiring and the money is flowing a union doesn’t seem necessary. But that’s drying up now and it’s looking to be worse than the dot com crash. That’s when BS starts to come from companies and the anti union people aren’t gonna get the same paychecks and perks they used to.

I was a weird kid and had this growing up

No just consume the desired ads on the desired browsers.

“What I’ve seen with AI is an erosion of trust.”

Mozilla is not going to train its own giant LLM anytime soon. But there’s still an AI Mode coming to Firefox next year, which Enzor-DeMeo says will offer users their choice of model and product, all in a browser they can understand and from a company they can trust. “We’re not incentivized to push one model or the other,” he says. “So we’re going to try to go to market with multiple models.” Some will be open-source models available to anyone.

This is such an out of touch non-answer here.

People don’t oppose ai changes because they’re locked into a model. In fact most AI products I use for my job let you choose a fucking model.

People hate them because

A) 90% of the time they’re useless and the remaining 10 are detrimental to the product experience

B) Ethical concerns about training off of artists and authors as well as environmental impact. EDIT: or also the general trend of trying to replace humans with AI.

C) Not wanting to play into the fucking arms race the billionaire class are manufacturing

D) The time they could be useful they have a risk of being either hilariously wrong or dangerously wrong. And there’s no amount of training and GPU manufacturing that’s gonna fix that.

Absolutely none of this is addressed by the CEO. I’m sure he has to say this because of the fucking tulip crazy money is in around this but it doesn’t make it any less tone deaf or futile.

Beep boop fellow clanker.

Add on top of it that they’re forcing engineers to use AI to try and magically bridge this gap and you get a lot of slop like this.

Jesus fucking fscking christ

I wonder what trend Meta will rebrand themselves to next.

But I thought it was the magic silver bullet that will lead to unheard of productivity?!?

It feels like Neil Breen directed this dub.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2BfsbZOuTI

Posted this in another community but I’ll leave this here too:

So back when I worked at Amazon I was playing around with AWS Skillbuilder. They don’t pay for any other training materials for SDEs (well they used to have ACloudGuru but ended that).

I was like “they charge money for this so it can’t be that bad right?” Well

1/3 of the courses were actually what I’d call “watchable”

1/3 were just SEO Blogspam masquerading as information

And the remaining 1/3 clearly used a text to speech software that was dreadful. It was incomprehensible.

I say all this to say that if there was ever a list of companies I would trust to do AI Dubs Amazon would be the bottom of that list.

Fair. Backup was a bad term here.

Do you use fingerprinting instead? Or what’s the mechanism you use?

I wish I could get it to stop finishing comments for me. It’s like some jackass is trying to complete my sentence for me but gets it completely wrong every time and it breaks my train of thought.

CEOs are convinced that if they can get rid of those pesky expensive engineers that idea people will magically make things work.

They’ve been great for me at optimizing bite sized annoying tasks. They’re really bad at doing anything beyond that. Like astronomically bad.