• jj4211@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    This isn’t just the scamming internet randos, it goes into pretty high level business consulting.

    “We just hired a company that has never worked in our field who doesn’t employ anyone who has worked in our field to tell us how to work in our field better than we do today, this should be great!”

    They always act so shocked that the consultancy did them zero good after giving them a few months.

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      The consultants are literally a place to blame for mass firings or restructuring. Most of the time they recommend changes management wanted but couldn’t say out loud since it would spook shareholders. It’s dumb but it’s how the majority of the consultancy grift works.

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    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.

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

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    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.

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    2 days ago

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

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    2 days ago

    … 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?

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    2 days 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.”

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    2 days ago

    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.

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      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.