[BadHumans]

This is everything I hate about the internet in one story. Using ads to target people, using AI to clone someones' voice and identity, dogs. The person who said they were excited, confused, scared but curious sums up how I feel about this although I'm not curious because I know where it leads.

[stratocumulus0]

I already find it disturbing enough that I'm getting targeted by all those run-of-the-mill AI entrpreneurs matching the ML part of my job title and auto-generating my work email in order to try to sell me their barely strung together ChatGPT wrappers because they were "impressed by my AI experience" (I have none). If I got physical advertisement material using my likeness and delivered in person, I would straight up call the police on whoever brought me that.

[nasdaq-txn]

I agree. It's an invasion of privacy dressed up as a cute story.

[mcculley]

I think we can all agree about the evil of the adtech ecosystem. But what do you have against dogs?

[rootsudo]

Exactly. All because they want a "job." which just rewards this sort of behavior.

[BadHumans]

They need a job because they are fleeing a war they didn't ask for and are trying to get back on their feet. I don't blame them for doing it. I just don't like it.

[batch12]

There are other jobs that don't require being gross.

[johnnyanmac]

In this economy? I don't know anymore.

[wiseowise]

People with skills and knowledge how to earn and spend money want to have high paying job, how dare they!

[batch12]

The same can be said about organized crime. Doesn't make it less slimy.

[surfingdino]

And yet they spent thousands on this prank. There is shortage of people able to work or fight in Ukraine, the country is fighting for survival and these two are busy spending thousands of euro on creepy shit.

[throwaway3306a]

You're free to donate money to Ukraine yourself. They didn't ask to be born there or to be in that situation.

I live in a country with hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees just living their new lives, working - and spending the money, sometimes a lot of it for expensive apartments, nice cars, luxury meals etc. Are all of them bad just because they don't want to be responsible for the state when they didn't sign up for that and nobody paid them to do so? I really don't think so. They are people like you and me, they want to live a happy life. Some contribute to the defense effort, some don't, both is fine.

[surfingdino]

I do donate. I do not expect them to be patriots and go die in a trench, but I also expect them to not be creeps and dickheads abroad. Their behaviour and narration presents a couple of cash-rich, entitled people detached from reality. They are not helping their own cause.

[throwaway3306a]

Are they trying to help any cause other than their own? Also - don't generalize based on nationality, please. These behave like this, others behave differently. This changes nothing about the war in Ukraine or Ukrainians.

[thih9]

To be fair, they acknowledge they are being creepy and that not all reactions were positive.

Also, of all the shady hustling that I’ve seen, targeting high level employees with a creative-and-privacy-invading pitch seems the least problematic.