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people who work and invest in AI frequently ask me why their work polls so badly

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I suspect their initial audience is people who will recoil at the intentionally hostile language and then take photos of the ads and put them on social media, thereby vastly amplifying their reach for free

This shit is on the Verizon building on 10th and West 53rd in NYC. I think they hoisted as high as it is because we would have pulled it down otherwise. Like all of these trumpian assholes, I don’t just wanted them sued, blocked and imprisoned, I want them hanged.

This is just a great failure to read the room. Anywhere where AI is being used or has the potential to be used, this kind of speak would get everyone rightly uncomfortable. You still need humans in the loop, how is anyone going to be productive if this is what they're partnering with?

Who the fuck are they advertising to -- in SF too? Workers making the commute. The billionaire CEO freaks don't go into the office -- to those left. Know your audience, AI.

Besides the fact that they've all got main character syndrome & wouldn't recognize empathy if it sat on their face and wiggled? "We built a technology that will steal your job, run up your electricity bill, poison your neighborhood & heat the Planet to make a stupid three second video! Cool, huh?"

…to be fair, I can think of a few humans I wish the world would stop hiring most of them are working in AI and for billionaires, and now a trillionaire

Un dia próximo una IA de RRHH lo despedirá y le dirá q el CEO pasa a ser una IA q no duerme, ni cobra, ni pasa dietas ni necesita coche de empresa.... y nadie mas lo contará y perderá todo, su tren de vida lujosa, y acabará en un puente o engachao al fentanilo. Fin

There is a blog post explaining why you should want to replace your cold-calling sales reps with AI instead of getting mad at them! (I had to look up “BDR” as that is jargon even our jargon-loving department head hasn’t “surfaced” at us yet, and they never define it) www.artisan.co/blog/stop-hi...

artisan.coWhy we put "stop hiring humans" on billboards and what it actually meansThe nuance behind Artisan's "Stop Hiring Humans" billboard: a more careful argument about AI, work, and what humans should actually be doing.

a group of damn people, fucking HUMANS, approved this shitty ass marketing strategy and plastered all over busses and billboards, like, "fuck yeah this is totally gonna work!!!" for fucks sake, and THIS is why we are where we are, too many dumb stupid people in power!

Yeah, this is some terrible dystopian shit. I work with AI. I have helped train AI. AI has a lot of potential as a tool to reduce repetitive or potentially dangerous tasks. It does not have the potential to replace critical thinking skills and taste from actual people.

You've got the line right. It can compress what's been thought, not do the thinking that hasn't happened yet, that needs a stake and a now. Tool for the repeatable, never the judgment. Where's your edge?

You are part of the problem. Your whole "lot of potential", "as a tool" schtick is actively helping it. You are a useful idiot. You did this. And you are still doing it.

The gap between "we're building the future" and "you're automating away human dignity" is fascinating. There's probably a whole psychology of innovation disconnect worth exploring — creators vs. everyone else living through the consequences.

Having worked with some sales guys, I think if we replaced all of them with AI several distilleries would go out of business overnight.

90% of billboards along this stretch are AI ads. 'Stop hiring humans' and 'Your next hire won't be human' along with all the insider jargon ones. I guess since tech corps lost their humanity a while ago, they're just saying the quiet part out loud these days.

Artisan runs these ads specifically to piss people off and hopefully take pictures and post them on their socials. They want it to get their name out.