Our marketing professor made these slop fliers for a food truck he was endorsing for his class to attend, and it replaced the diverse workers with frat guys, fucked the contact information on the truck, replaced the menus with “it’s yummy” and “a great day” signage instead… all kinds of utter trash, and the FUCKED thing is… the source photo was right there. He could’ve fucking copy-pasted but that was too much work somehow.
He’s likely being told to show how he’s using AI in his classroom. The Administration and school that are telling him that are being told to encourage the use of AI in the classroom. The college is being told to incorporate AI in the classroom by donors and the institutions of private and public sectors that depend on capital investors. The capital investors are heavily leveraged into AI in their portfolio and using their other existing capital investments to push AI use in everything they can.
It’s the same reason we got “smart toasters” with a touchscreen and wifi. Any reason or rational that a college professor once had is being overshadowed by these structures. It’s a disease in our society that has existed long before AI.
AI just exposes it so perfectly and so ridiculously. In the past. You could convince someone why they might want their toaster connected to WiFi. It’s ridiculous, but it’s within a realm of reality. AI exposes the lies of incentives of capitalism so clearly. “This image is garbage and not even in a human way. It’s not a poorly drawn or contains a common misspelling. It’s literally hitting some internal feeling of anxiety when I look at it. That feeling of creepy, inhuman uncanny valley. And it will never go away”.
Nope, this is alllllll him. He’s even walking around violating FERPA by using pervert glasses during class and school events. We’re a largely anti-AI faculty and outside of one blackboard IT person, it’s similar through much of admin.
Our marketing professor made these slop fliers for a food truck he was endorsing for his class to attend, and it replaced the diverse workers with frat guys, fucked the contact information on the truck, replaced the menus with “it’s yummy” and “a great day” signage instead… all kinds of utter trash, and the FUCKED thing is… the source photo was right there. He could’ve fucking copy-pasted but that was too much work somehow.
He’s likely being told to show how he’s using AI in his classroom. The Administration and school that are telling him that are being told to encourage the use of AI in the classroom. The college is being told to incorporate AI in the classroom by donors and the institutions of private and public sectors that depend on capital investors. The capital investors are heavily leveraged into AI in their portfolio and using their other existing capital investments to push AI use in everything they can.
It’s the same reason we got “smart toasters” with a touchscreen and wifi. Any reason or rational that a college professor once had is being overshadowed by these structures. It’s a disease in our society that has existed long before AI.
AI just exposes it so perfectly and so ridiculously. In the past. You could convince someone why they might want their toaster connected to WiFi. It’s ridiculous, but it’s within a realm of reality. AI exposes the lies of incentives of capitalism so clearly. “This image is garbage and not even in a human way. It’s not a poorly drawn or contains a common misspelling. It’s literally hitting some internal feeling of anxiety when I look at it. That feeling of creepy, inhuman uncanny valley. And it will never go away”.
Nope, this is alllllll him. He’s even walking around violating FERPA by using pervert glasses during class and school events. We’re a largely anti-AI faculty and outside of one blackboard IT person, it’s similar through much of admin.