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[–] GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone 21 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

The broker that my retirement account is through is pushing some new AI insights tool. The screenshots show an example of a conversation that essentially goes.

Q: "How can I reach my retirement savings goals faster?"

A: "Consider contributing more to your 401k from each paycheck."

People will actually pay money to have some slop chatbot tell them that they can have more money in their account if they put more money in their account. Preying on stupid or lazy people is an extremely lucrative industry.

[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Anyone who buys it deserves what they get.

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

And we the people deserve everything that the scammer gets out of the idiot, just so

[–] arc99@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

Reminds me of those ads where scammer pretends if you invest in some obvious scam you too will own a jet and a Ferarri just like him. If it was such an amazing way to make money the last thing they'd do is tell anyone else about it.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

"No money down!". Snake Oil is still a thing in this complicated techno landscape.

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 hours ago

The word “journey” has been completely ruined by business idiots.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago

You wouldn't want the answer, it's like, boring

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

... how... does copywriting... have ... margins?

What are you classing as expenses?

You need an AP Style Guide, and your brain, and working eyes and fingers and a keyboard mouse and computer.

Wtf are margins?

You have an ongoing regular cost?

... this is a guide on how to set up some kind of LLM to do your copywriting, isn't it?

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 hours ago

Of course it is.

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 17 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

He's also accidentally claiming expenses in the realm of 40k a month. Even the most expensive llm don't need that.

[–] movies@lemmy.world 136 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

Dude’s a copywriter and can’t use “it’s” properly. Grammar must be less important when you’re making 400k a month.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago

Scammers have been filtering this way for decades.

[–] Juice@midwest.social 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

This is broing but it mkaes me $400,000K a munth an 90 present margarines
Copyediting.

[–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 1 points 36 minutes ago

Retiring after a couple months sounds pretty sweet tbh.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 hours ago

1000% this guy just uses an LLM

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 23 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (5 children)

"It's" is a valid contraction of "it has".

Edit: glossed over the other "it's"... doh.

[–] bitwise@lemmy.ca 53 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

"But not many people know how to use it to it's full advantage"

[–] giacomo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

this is why I hate its vs it's. if "it" was Dave, it would be to Dave's full advantage.

this shit will likely never make sense to me.

[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 hour ago

because english is a trash language but pedants enjoy gatekeeping too much

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

You only do "it's" for "it is".

The rest are "its". That simple. You don't do it for possession with "it".

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 12 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Missed that one...

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It's nice to see them all

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 1 points 9 minutes ago

You really hit the nail on it's is head

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I think he's settled on just always using an apostrophe, and isn't really a copy writer

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

As noted grammarian Dave Barry notably said, the purpose of an apostrophe is to alert the reader: "look out, an 's' is coming!"

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 19 points 19 hours ago

Sure. Not here, though.

[–] himezero@lemmy.world 12 points 19 hours ago

Other it’s. Some would say people don’t know how to use “it” to its fullest advantage.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

"It has helped me..." doesn't sound quite correct to me but i am not a native speaker so i may be wrong

[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 7 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

English speakers use has/have/had to signify perfect tenses, meaning the actions are completed but have effects that continue.

So past perfect: It had helped me. Present perfect: it has helped me.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 1 points 8 hours ago

Thank you!

[–] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

No. 'Has helped' is the present perfect.

[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 2 points 17 hours ago

Whoopsie

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 85 points 18 hours ago

Ad: Send me 50€ and learn how to play the guitar!

If you send 50€:

"Thank you for the 50€, now don't forget to learn how to play the guitar."

[–] Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 34 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

How to Make a Million Dollars
Paperback
$1,000,000.00 - Add to cart

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

Shit you're right. If I price it half a million, no way two idiots buy a copy

[–] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 50 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I make over 73 cents a month staring at the sidewalk as I walk to work. With 3 easy payments of 59.99 I can show you how.

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 2 points 2 hours ago

I have two things to say to you.

I once unexpectedly saw my username embedded in the ground while staring at the sidewalk walking home from work and ...

Once my cousin confused the salt and sugar while visiting my childhood home and accidentally sugared her spaghetti. I don't think she finished it.

[–] roserose56@lemmy.zip 28 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Actually this
https://www.404media.co/larping-how-influencers-fake-being-rich/

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 39 minutes ago

If nothing else, that Louis Theroux documentary about the manosphere exposed how all this influencer crap is built on a bunch of exceptionally dubious finance apps, that make Bernie Madoff look like a legit business mogul.

They all talked about how wealthy they were, but none of them really seemed rich. Rich people aren't up at 6am editing YouTube shorts and putting in the right hashtags. They're all living on borrowed money, and you get the feeling that if any of them tried to step off the treadmill, there'd be no life left to go back to.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 22 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

With AI running rampant, I have to imagine copywriters have been decimated.

[–] w3ird_sloth@lemmy.world 1 points 54 minutes ago

Got laid off last fall. SEO is already pretty much slop so it was the perfect industry for LLMs. It was already getting hard to find good content online because of all the garbage we were loading up with keywords to game search. Now with AI generating it 24/7 traditional search is just dead in the water.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 32 minutes ago)

Last night we were playing D&D and one of other players showed off a miniature character model he had generated with AI. "I'm glad I didn't go to school for 3D modeling", he says.

Guess what I took a bunch of classes for since the 1990s.

Whatever, my models all have more heart than slop. They can't afford me and I'm not making them free models anyways.

[–] markstos@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago

I know one recently laid off. AI wasn’t explicitly the reason but his next job seems unlikely to be copyediting.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 11 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

If you could make that kind of money with copy writing, I'd be rich. Copy writers, tech writers, basically any kind of writers are always underappreciated and underpaid.

[–] minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Why are you teaching him why his scam isn't working?

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 5 points 18 hours ago

Why not try to protect the general populace?