Always hold companies responsible! Call them out and make them publicly respond. Shop local, fuck corporations!
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Written by Claude .... "You are right to raise this"... Like chatgpt dashing
Ah, yes, reaffirming that someone raising an issue is correct to have done so is the telltale sign of an LLM. Couldn't just be basic professional writing etiquette that LLMs were trained forwards and backwards on; it has to have been written by an LLM.
You don't actually write formally very much, do you?
I am forced to use claude daily at work, it smells like claude
I write formally all the time; smells like a PR team writing formally.
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Take notes, GOG.
GOG in this situation: Block the video for everyone speaking French.
But let's see if Proton actually stop this shit with other right wing weirdos or will just stop the sponsorship with this one dude.
For sure. I'm suspicious of Proton, though they clearly have a better PR staff. Low bar compared to GOG's recent self-own.
Nah this is what peak PR looks like:
"The right wing ideology is part of my cultural and historical heritage. As a Swiss, I am fully aware of both its history and the sensitivities surrounding it.
...
As a Swiss, I have every reason to treat this history with seriousness and respect. Precisely because of that, I reject any suggestion that this promotion carried an extremist message. It did not."
I'll never forget this shit, such ass response from GOG
Fill me in, what have GOG done? Please link to trustworthy source(s).
Sent a newsletter to half their customers containing "Slavic runes" (literally the logo for the SS) to promote some Slavic fantasy game
Imo it's even odds between some marketing child-left-behind googling "Slavic runes" to add to their email, and some 4channer on the team thinking they're making a funny joke. The fact that they recognized the issue enough to know that couldn't send the email in Germany, but sent it everywhere else anyway, makes me lean a little bit more toward the latter
I'm confused. I have Scandinavian ancestry and understand that some of the cultural identity was appropriated by Nazis and now some extremist fuck wits. e.g. how the Hindu swastika (also often confused with sauvastika) was appropriated. But I don't understand why that means appropriated symbols automatically = bad if they're used in their original context?
The main issue is that ϟϟ was both totally irrelevant to the topic besides being vaguely Slavic, and also literally the logo for the SS. In the modern day, that is its only connotation. It's not in its original context, it's just random runes thrown together
I'm asking both specifically about the GOG thing but also more generally. Yes, I know the SS appropriated runes for tgwit logo but I still don't see how that automatically makes runes themselves bad. I can understand how it would be triggering for some folks and so a level of sensitivity is required (which GOG clearly failed on) but I still don't get how appropriated symbols automatically = bad (because I've seen the same reactions to other ancient symbols over and over again and I'm still trying to understand it)
Because they used the ϟ rune twice. When used like that, it only has one meaning.
It's bad because the SS appropriated it and stripped all other meaning from it. It's like using the number 1488 in a username. It only means one thing, and while it's possible to stumble into it by accident, it remains a white supremacist dogwhistle
Aha. That news. Thanks for the reminder.
I didn't see news covering this shit but almost everyone subscribed in their newsletter receive an advertising for a game and the the e-mail subject contained nazi symbols. GOG response was the most idiotic thing possible.
https://redlib.nadeko.net/r/gog/comments/1txlz7z/comment/opxsir6 https://www.gog.com/forum/general/weird_subject_line_choice_for_a_newsletter
"You were right to raise this" and "we want to be straight about this" smacks of AI
An affiliate or sponsorship arrangement is a transactional placement for awareness, not an endorsement of a creator's views.
Uh, that’s kind of how this works. You might have your own corporate definition of sponsorship and endorsement but at the end of the day, it’s at the very least tacit approval
Honestly...good response. Own up to their error instead of ducking. Explain how it happened, and accept the responsibility of making sure it doesn't happen again. Well written with a good message.