Censored the brandname, no exposure for you today.
Those pens had about one working head, one that half worked and the rest dry from the beginning, you spent most of the time just playing with the springs. This seems like a good analogy for current AI usage.
It’s the thing that sounds more useful until you actually get to use it
After one try you realize it’s not useful for writing but a great distraction from the actual things you need to do.
Also, 20x the price of the original item.
Not to mention the way it fits in the hand. I have to alter my grip to accommodate the super-pen and it will affect my penmanship, not to mention cause fatigue in my writing hand sooner than normal.
Someone should inform them that they can only use one of those inks at a time…so they’re not getting any more done than “alone”.
It’s a perfect analogy because it seems like an improvement because it seems like an improvement and on paper it is. But as I got a bit older I realized that:
- I primarily used one color, meaning that it would run out of ink before the others
- The colors that didn’t get used would be gummed up by the time I did switch to them because it didn’t have a proper cap
- The barrel of the pen was wider to accommodate those extra cartridges inside making it more uncomfortable to use.
- The pen was more expensive than a box of cheap pens, so I only had one; since I’d lose pens all the time this meant that I’d have to use a cheap pen anyway, if I even had any.
Like AI, it’s a novelty that is worse in almost every way while appearing to convey an illusory benefit!
Not to mention the glorious stimulation of clicking them all while not writing anything in class. Fun but not conducive to productivity at all. A perfect analogy, really.
I did end up finding a multi pen/pencil I really like. I typically have blue and red ink in it along with a pencil lead tip:
That looks like a nice pen to use! It has some class and functionality.
accurate, spend 30 minutes fucking around with different colors making doodles for every 10 minute thing you’re supposed to do
A clunky tool that people see as a fun novelty once and then put it in a drawer never to be touched again? Sounds about right.
But the 4 color variety is fire.
Also, a clunky tool only children like.
Nobody at the company probably ever used one of those pens. They broke or got stuck way more easily than just a regular pen. Which… Is honestly a pretty apt comparison for AI.
the sheer girth of that pen alone is enough to make it unpleasant to use, great analogy for having AI coworkers
I’m not the only one that feels the perspective on the pens are off? Not just between them but like each pen has two perspectives in different places.
They are! They’re slanted differently, one is seen from the top, the other from the tip.
Wow, that seems like the sort of problem that might have been avoided if they’d used a human artist instead of genAI.
This is censorship I can get behind, well done!
They have a point. AI belongs in the same place as those pens.
The bin.
Wait, so with AI my company will be fat…less agile but really really gay…err…gender diverse!?
Wait, I’ll have to discuss this with my wife. She said no. Sorry techbro but I’m already taken. Perhaps on a different life? One where I didn’t marry and we could all have imaginary computer based sexual encounters with fictitious gay coworkers? Maybe.
Re the image in the post: so still alone then yeah?
Thank you for censoring the brand name 🙏
Yes, capitalism treats people as objects to be used (aka employed).
We are just pens to them. We are to be used and then thrown away when used up.
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Under-assed!!
:;;;(
Wait, will my work-AI-wife solve this & ass me properly or is that just a convoluted way of sending a meeting request with HR?
Remember the tech bro who created a female-presenting AI coworker and then immediately sexually harassed it? And then published the interaction online like it was a good thing?
Classic Chadbro.
Did he then not complain how she can’t do the dishes? Is he even on top of his game??
Nah, as I recall he centered his own feelings, dismissed the entire interaction as a “mistake,” and then went on to learn nothing about it at all.
Thought it said “AI Pen”
