Using AI to make a stick figure comic is peak laziness.
When all you have is a shovel everything you make looks like dirt
ironic, make fun of ai with ai
Almost all billboards in the Silicon Valley area are for AI and related services, it really does look like selling shovels to shovel sellers.
IMO the Silicon Valley startups are the miners, and companies like Nvidia, Anthropic, and OpenAI are the shovel sellers. And from that perspective there aren’t that many shovel sellers.
A look at San Francisco billboards (“past month” plus “anytime“):
There’s only one shovel in that slop. The rest are all just handles.
And the only one with a blade is, ironically, missing a handle.
And the handles are on shafts that are long enough you wouldn’t want a handle.
Does it count that there are an inconsistent number of fingers when it’s stick men?
It’s actually a good analogy, where the shovel manufacturer is Nvidia/semicon industry
They are selling shovel blades and handles, so the shovel sellers can put them together and believe they are providing a unique and valuable product.
What is the connection between San Francisco and shovels?
During the “Gold Rush” era (Wild West 1800s), there were plenty of people descending onto California to try and make their fortunes by staking out land to mine and pan for gold.
However, the first millionaire wasn’t anyone who got lucky staking out a mine. It was the largest store owner in the area selling all these prospective miners their shovels to dig with.
The “AI industry” has a lot of parallels here, but everyone wants to be the store owner, and hardly anyone has a genuine need for their tools.
Said first millionaire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Brannan
It’s quite wild. He’s also considered the first to publicize that there is a gold rush, much like these modern AI companies hype up their products to no end.
Err, this is dumb as rocks. The shovels would be the hardware.
Where was this when there was 36" (91.44 cm) of snow?
Sloperators and their lackeys will be blocked.
Shameful.
