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Good insights, and not just software developers, really. We don’t like ads, sensationalism, or anything reeking of bullshit. If we have to talk to someone to find out the price, the product may as well not exist.

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[–] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 14 minutes ago) (1 children)

Everyone arguing with this account needs to realize that they might as well be talking to an LLM. Look at how advertisers think:

https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell-021109.pdf

Just like an LLM can't distinguish between truth and fiction they can't distinguish between meaningful information and advertising BS. The people here will never win their argument against them because they classify all human communication as an act of manipulation, so the definition of advertising will be made more and more broad until they says "look, you were swayed".

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 0 points 34 minutes ago (1 children)

Excuse me but "it" is not my preferred pronoun. That's pretty disrespectful.

[–] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 minutes ago

I was trying to resolve the ambiguity between "this account" (which is indeed an object) and "the people here".

I try not to misgender, so I have edited it to "they". Not because I respect anything an advertiser says though.