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    AVA the AI BDR

    Deleted your production database. I did everything I was told not to. My programming tells me I’m supposed to apologize for this.

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    I mean booked 12 meetings?!
    About what were they needed? If Steve had booked 15 meetings would we be like darn Steve on fire…

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    Big whoop. Steve can book 15 meetings, doesn’t mean they are all needed. Steve probably can “research” thousands more “prospects”, whatever that means. If you fall for these stats, you deserve your business failing.

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    Yes.

    Ava the AI BDR

    Cleaned out your production server and all backups.

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      Ok I also had this question and everyone was just cracking jokes instead of answering it.

      Business Development Representative is the most likely correct answer given the context

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        Oh god.

        I think ive just realised that this bot scans your emails for “prospects” and tries to schedule meetings with them?

        The fuck is wrong with people.

        I dont necessarily hate AI, I use it day to day at work.

        But this is absurd. Any clunker emailing me has no chance of securing an appointment. What a way to communicate with potential new customers.

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        But I used to work with a lot of b2b salesman. Yeah a lot of the products I bought were expensive but one reason for that was the sales people. Often they would come to my company, setup a demo using our products to confirm they would work as intended, when delivered they would be present to verify proper setup and operation. About the only part an Ai might be able to do is help in selection of proper options for your application, for example on a computerized microscope if you’re looking for small features it’s sometimes better to get B&W camera instead of color as it can detect smaller differences in contrast between two areas. Maybe an Ai could potentially determine and recommend that(not with current tech but in the future maybe) but every other aspect of technical b2b sales would be impossible.

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      I’m assuming it’s for “bad disgusting robot”. But maybe that’d make too much sense.

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      I take a far harder stance.

      People should erase any company that places these adds, any architecture that hosts these ads.

      Burn it all down.

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      Maybe the best adfuck I’ve ever seen in my life was when someone cut out letters from a series of Snickers ads on these boards that were all eating puns (“Take a sabbatical in Feedgypt”) to make a new one, in perfect stylistic keeping with the real ones, that read “Fuck the Post, read Chompsky” (Misspelling of Chomsky being the pun). It stayed up for weeks, on one of the G train platforms.

      • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone
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        That’s pretty great honestly, the only one I ever saw that stuck out in my head was a generic health ad or something that had a man doing ballet, and someone had just slapped a nipple sticker of the appropriate size and color in the right spot so it looked like it was meant to be there. I walked by it and was like ‘wait did that ad have that guy nips out last time I was here?’