https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1819897940179337223?s=19
WTF is wrong with people over there?
For God’s sake, don’t make an ad that has as its premise that an adult Black male athlete — who is a native speaker of English — is insufficiently articulate to write a trivial fan letter for his child.
And setting that aside, my main reaction is bemusement. I just don’t get the premise. It’s not so much that it’s not politically correct or unaware of anxieties, as it is just weird. Of all the great things you could say to do with text-generative AI, this seems such a bad example.
Isn’t a fan letter one of the of those things a child would want to write entirely on her own (and should)? She doesn’t need dad’s advice.
And if dad were to offer advice, of all the things he might need help with, this seems like an awful example. It’s not challenging, or cross-cultural, or needing to be short. The prompt is so trivial that the result is very generic and impersonal. And it denies a father’s serious engagement with his daughter.
If the intended recipient didn’t speak English and maybe has an unfamiliar cultural context for praise — maybe they are Japanese? — that might make sense as long as the prompt acknowledges that.
It’s a weird premise.