This is not so much about a particular post but rather to document Jakob Nielsen’s relentless generative AI boosting.

His weekly updates are so saturated with AI subject matter and every image is AI generated they are unreadable and I can only assume the text is AI generated as well. It really doesn’t matter if it isn’t, in fact, because he’s demonstrating in real-time how damaging the AI aesthetic is to a brand.

He also seems to be mentioning his 40 years of expertise a lot more, which might be a reaction to some negative feedback. I want to dig deeper, but I don’t like the feeling that I’ll have to read generated stuff carefully.

His latest newsletter triggered this post because he links to a terrible AI generated song he made (with the line “Jakob Nielsen with UX fame, forty-one years, still in the game”) and spends most of the newsletter talking about the process.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYt12jr5yUY

  • SteveOP
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    89 months ago

    You know you’ve done bad when you create the conditions for “got to give him credit for putting the work in” to this guy https://youtu.be/JZYZoQQ6LJQ

    • @swlabr
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      69 months ago

      I hate that you linked that and I hate that I clicked on it.

      • SteveOP
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        79 months ago

        But you have to give him credit for putting the work in

        • @froztbyte
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          69 months ago

          the comments on that video are exceptionally cringe

      • @carlitoscohones
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        79 months ago

        Skip to 1:03 for a second … this is the super-fast lyric portion of the video. Saying all of those syllables fast causes Mr. street-sounding rap guy to lose his accent code-switch and for that verse he sounds like a generic white guy. Pretty funny actually.

      • SteveOP
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        59 months ago

        He made a mil on pocket change

        • @froztbyte
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          59 months ago

          Ah, easy mistake to make: it’s a mill on pocket change

          Teensy tiny model mill, on a stand of pocket change! Adorbs

    • @Soyweiser
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      59 months ago

      Thanks, hate it. Amazing how much of it is just either ‘im rich!’ or ‘buzzword’.