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    The useless LLM features are free, but editing the pdf (the thing you actually need to do) will cost you…

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      PLEASE use the LLMs, they are great, we promise, PLEASE we are begging you, it will change your life, PLEASE we spent billions of dollars on it thinking it will solve everything and now the shareholders are starting to ask questions PLEASE just one podcast from a PDF, PLEASE you will like it, trust me PLEASE BELIEVE ME.

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        it’s so tempting just for the novelty, but fuck adobe i’m not using it even for funzies

        foxit is love, foxit is life

        edit: my loud cat just meowed his agreement and my right front butt farted involuntarily in concert. it must be true

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    One is a symptom of the other. All the tech companies went insane in the covid years, gorged on free debt and infinite demand for their services. A drug high that would never end… until it did, of course.

    Now they’re all blowing their banks out trying to recapture the magic of that era, with “”“AI”“” as their supposedly-golden ticket. A shame it’ll all come crashing down soon, and take the world economy with it.

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    My coworker sent me a screenshot of this the other day so I loaded a 2-page bid scope for a project. It spent half the time on the boilerplate terms and conditions

    “Ah, so I see here that [my company] doesn’t run conduit”

    “Yeah, that’s so true! It’s up to [client] to run the conduit before work begins”

    “Right! Makes sense to me!”

    There was also no option to save the mp3. You had to play it with the odd open

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    I saw an ad yesterday for AI to generate product pictures. They’re not even hiding that AI is primarily a tool for conmen.

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    It’s SO dumb. Why would anyone actually specifically seek out and listen to an AI podcast generated by some random documents? How would anyone locate it? Why would anyone create branding for it?

    This is a feature without an audience.

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      i guess the apparent intention was so that it can be listened to, instead of read. the actual intention was to get money from the same type of person this appeals to

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          This feature is intended to summarise and also make it more listenable to someone who would fall asleep to the audio book version, I guess. There’s lots of terrible uses of AI, on the spectrum of those this isn’t that bad

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        hold up

        not to make too much fun, but does it make coloring pages too? didn’t it already have that feature? how does it differ from TTS?

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      no shit we had someone come in to our work and was paid to lecture us for an hour on how to do this. they recommended it for when we’re catching up on work outside of work - something I absolutely will never do

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        Service number three million nine hundred and forty eight thousand two hundred and seventy seven.

        Customer number pee bee six eight one nine arr four nine three.

        Invoice number eye en vee dash three hundred and ninety thousand two hundred and sixty five.

        Amount dollars three hundred and seventy six point two two.

        Please pay at ess haich tee tee pee Colon slash slash double u double u double u dot I think this podcast is getting boring dot com forward slash …

        • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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          alexa, change the numbers from actual verbal numbers to binary in EEEEEEEEE at the pitch F3 held for fourteen seconds for each one bit and UUUUUUUUUUU at the pitch A2 held for twenty-one seconds for each zero bit. Also throw in a C10 for four point two seconds every thirteenth bit with the vowel əəəəəəəəəə just to fuck with people.

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    Just as surreal as the housing bubble years, just as surreal as the 90s tech bubble years.

    They’ll be talking about this one for years, lol