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> "Stop hiring humans" was never a sentence about humans at large, it was a sentence about a category of work.

I don't believe a word of it. It seems more likely that they are one of the many genAI companies who basically view people with a kind of contempt. I mean, that's exactly what their advertising was advertising.

I think they see that their public stance could make them a target of the ever-growing backlash and are trying to deflect it.

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> they are one of the many genAI companies who basically view people with a kind of contempt.

It's absolutely this, and they're not even hiding it. It's everywhere in their public presence.

- Their now-retired marketing slogan is, of course, openly contemptuous towards people.

- Although I don't know all the marketing jargon, if I got it right, their pitch is to have LLMs churn out marketing emails - again, contemptuous toward whomever's on the other end.

- This very release is itself AI slop - total contempt toward us, the readers.

It is weird for them to simultaneously a) apologize and b) brag about the marketing ROI of the trolling.

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