You know a company is becoming unpopular when they start running negative ads about their product to attract attention. And that’s just what’s happening in the complicated, crazy world of “Artificial Intelligence” or A.I. for short. Like this couple in the picture who just checked out their on-line ad created with A.I., and don’t like what they see,  people are getting more turned-off at how fake everything looks and how their ad or post is just like a zillion other ones.

A lead editorial in a recent edition of The New York Times addresses this very issue.  Click HERE to read Cody Delistraty’s commentary. Just a heads-up, as we read the op-ed piece closely some of us thought  A.I. was involved which is a little weird and ironic. Some paragraphs from the article are pasted below.

The A.I. company Anthropic recently opened a pop-up in the West Village in New York City, it designated a “Zero Slop Zone.” Visitors are offered baseball caps with the word “thinking” on them, coffee and hard copies of a nearly 15,000-word essay by the company’s chief executive, with the title “Machines of Loving Grace.” Use of phones and laptops was discouraged, although to get in you were asked to show you had downloaded Claude, Anthropic’s large language model. Instead, humans were meant to hang out with other humans.

Anthropic’s marketing stunt is the most obvious example yet of A.I. companies’ recent “anti-A.I. A.I. strategy,” as I call it — an apparent bid to reckon with the public’s negative view of the technology. Only 17 percent of American adults think A.I.’s impact on the country will be positive in the next two decades, according to a Pew Research Center survey this spring. Less than a quarter think A.I. will benefit them personally. A.I. companies seem to have tacitly acknowledged this skepticism and are changing how they present themselves. Some of the most consumer-facing ones are marketing their flagship products as creativity triggers that are fundamentally human and appreciative of the analog — even as these attributes stand in stark opposition to what A.I. is and does. – Opinion, The New York Times. 

Here’s the link to the rest of Cody Delistraty’s NYT op-ed piece. Let us know what you think: send your opinion to: info@yourcanna-club.com