Comment by pousada
21 hours ago
It would make every marketing department and basically every startup founder conmen too. While I don’t completely disagree with that framing it’s not really helpful.
21 hours ago
It would make every marketing department and basically every startup founder conmen too. While I don’t completely disagree with that framing it’s not really helpful.
No, that is not true. Coca-Cola doesn’t advertise itself as a cure for cancer. Dropbox doesn’t advertise itself as a tax-filing application.
Theranos on the other hand… That was a con and the founder was prosecuted.
And again, Sam Altman has a history of deceit.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoi...
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-...
Coca-Cola advertises itself as a “happiness machine” as something that brings people together, builds communities, creates love and friendship.
The latest slogan i can remember is “open happiness”.
I like fizzy sugar drinks as much as the next guy but Coca-Cola is not liquid happiness.
Edit: Dropbox marketing slogan is “for all things worth saving”
Slogans are not promises, they are vague feelings. In the case of Coca-Cola, I know someone who might literally agree with the happiness part of it (though I certainly wouldn’t).
The promises of Theranos and LLMs are concrete measurable things we can evaluate and report where they succeed, fall short, or are lies.
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