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'Big Short' Investor Expects AI Bubble Burst 'Sooner Than Later'
gizmodo.com/big-short-investor-expects-ai-bubble-burst-sooner-than-later-2000818889
Replying to @return2ozma@lemmy.world
I own a beer bar, and we work with some friends who have a catering business that does pop ups on our patio. They’ve been using AI to generate flyers and then tag us to have us share them to our larger audience. I stopped doing it because they look like trash, get low engagement, and are off brand for our art-inspired space. They got upset with me that we weren’t helping promote, and I explained my position on their AI flyers, and they sent a very lengthy email back about how AI is being utilized by small businesses in ways that we’re still scratching the surface to understand its value. I popped the email into chatgpt and asked if it wrote that email and it said it did, lol. Now I have more work on my hands to design their flyers for them, but it’s worth it.
Replying to @Kcap@lemmy.world
I recently read a decent article (in Danish mind you), focused on the positions some volunteers had from getting more fans to their local football club… Because they now posted stuff on Facebook.
Then followed up by an expert on engagement, and statistics on about half the population felt AI image generations to be off putting - And a fair chunk of the remainder not really caring, and a small minority finding it cool/useful.
That experts main position, was the human touch was lost and the volunteer of the local football club would most likely get more people to stadium if they asked a bunch of 2nd graders to draw match day posts.
Because it would genuinely connect to people. So yeah, a lot of smaller businesses and volunteers are currently having a feeling all of this AI gen is giving them more traffic and attention, but in reality they’re getting more attention because they went from doing nothing to doing something