Mr Altman is on the press tour again, and the bullshit-o-meter is off the charts| www.trend-mill.com
The Internet, culture, and the general online experience is polluted by pure, unfiltered, toxic AI sludge| www.trend-mill.com
You’d think the world had forgotten the most effective marketing trick of them all — sex sells.| Trend Mill
Slop has infected and overwhelmed every facet of our culture.| www.trend-mill.com
I was reminiscing the other day with a friend about a long-forgotten period of time — the days when the internet was fun.| www.trend-mill.com
If we get engage with AI sludge, it'll soon be all we have| www.trend-mill.com
190,000 years spent watching YouTube Shorts| www.trend-mill.com
It all begins with a fully AI-generated video narrative series about an incompetent Stormtrooper named Greg.| Trend Mill
I realized the other that I've almost stopped using Google Search, and that makes me kinda sad.| www.trend-mill.com
AI-generated videos are now at a level that would at least pass for the run-of-the-mill Netflix slop.| www.trend-mill.com
The answer to loneliness can't be a focus on less human connectivity and an increase in relationships with entities that don't exist, can it?| Trend Mill
World is a project involving giant orbs that scan your iris from the mind of everyone's favorite, trustworthy, "I promise this isn't for profit" tech guy Sam Altman.| www.trend-mill.com
The AI hardware category has been a right doozy so far, with product after product releasing to big hype, then offering little in the way of substance or function before dying as quickly as they arrived, typically setting fire to millions of dollars in the process.| Trend Mill
Sorry folks, I'm off on another "doomer" rant again.| www.trend-mill.com
"Mark Zuckerberg has been clear about his intentions: He believes that the future of 'social media' is a bunch of human beings scrolling through and arguing about AI-generated content on his many platforms.| Trend Mill
Dead Internet Theory is the belief that the majority of internet posts, traffic and users have been replaced by bots and AI-generated content.| www.trend-mill.com
After over two years and tens (or hundreds?) of billions of dollars spent, generative AI is still nothing more than a tech demo fuelled by what ifs, what could be’s and what probably won't be’s.| www.trend-mill.com
On the same day Microsoft revealed Majorana 1, a computer chip that makes a genuine step forward toward quantum computing, Apple unveiled another iPhone, only this time a bit smaller and a bit cheaper.| Trend Mill
I was only writing last week about my worry that AI agents — if widely adopted and then depended upon — will kill our own agency.| Trend Mill
The Internet of Things has been a bit of a failed product strategy.| www.trend-mill.com
Meta has had a week, and it's only, *checks calendar,* the second week of the year.| www.trend-mill.com
I think we've reached the point where the Internet—once a tool that offered us the entire world of information at our fingertips—is now completely unusable.| www.trend-mill.com
Somewhere along the way, we sucked all the fun out of this. We're all guilty of making this place, the Internet, a horrible, shitty, vapid hellhole.| www.trend-mill.com
Musk told advertisers to "go fuck themselves." Now he's suing them for not advertising| www.trend-mill.com
This always listening "companion" is as creepy as you think it is| www.trend-mill.com
Crypto. NFTs. Metaverse. Web3/Web5. GenAI. Technology has been moving at breakneck speed for some time now, but the last few years have seen the tech industry burn through a frankly ridiculous amount of the "next big thing." Those trying to cash in on the latest trend — the grifters — have been pivoting so fast they must be suffering whiplash.| www.trend-mill.com
The continued destruction of customer value to line the pockets of shareholders| www.trend-mill.com
As always, we can point the blame at one thing - engagement metrics| www.trend-mill.com
Without us, they would be nothing| www.trend-mill.com
Finally, humans are pushing back| www.trend-mill.com
I remember the early days of Facebook. I had just gone to university around the time it really took off, and whatever the hell this thing was, it was offering us a new way to engage with each other (and distract us from lectures) — and we loved it. It’s hard to imagine now, but it was actually fun to use. Sharing status updates, waking up after a night of heavy drinking to see what awful pictures the nightclub had shared of you, joining funny groups, following band pages, and of course, ...| www.trend-mill.com
The company is in danger of becoming the spam it has spent 20 years trying to fight| www.trend-mill.com
The company is no longer the creative rebel; it’s the soulless corpo juggernaut it once rallied against.| www.trend-mill.com
The AI grift-shift is still in full swing| www.trend-mill.com
