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I hope we see fewer comments like this that aren't shitting on projects that you have no stake in anyway

by nusl 25d ago

StilesCrisis 25d ago
This is a business--they have cloud and a sales team.
- nusl 25d ago
  Fair. I'll rm the personal project bit
- stavros 25d ago
  Eh, so what? It's whimsical and fun, and it's better if more things like this exist in the world than not.
  - mcmcmc 25d ago
    They’re literally reusing IP from The Office. It’s clearly not parody, and they directly reference the show. It’s one thing for a joke project to do that. They are attempting to profit off someone else’s creative work. And not even in the roundabout way AI does.
    - StilesCrisis 25d ago
      Not even in a clever way. The bots don't actually seem to carry any personality traits; they're just ways to label <session_0001> and <session_0002>. I won't accept it as an Office parody if Dwight can work well with others.
    - qup 25d ago
      Legally, I agree. Morally, I think it's totally wild to care if some totally unrelated real world thing gets named after a twenty+ year old cultural icon of a TV show as an homage. They're attempting to profit off their business. The office thing is a theme.
      - mcmcmc 25d ago
        I can’t imagine having so little empathy that you can’t put yourself in the shoes of the creator of the IP. They didn’t even bother to tweak the characters. It’s not “inspired by” or riffing on a theme, it’s a straight ripoff being used to market some AI product. Do you think anyone who created The Office would want to be associated with AI, something that’s threatening to drive them out of a job? What pisses me off the most is it’s just so damn lazy.
        StilesCrisis 25d ago
        Honestly, making Ricky Gervais upset might be the most redeeming thing in this product.
        qup 24d ago
        No man, if it's a "straight ripoff", it would be a TV show. Not an programming application.
        mcmcmc 24d ago
        Right, because a Temu backpack with Darth Vader on it isn’t ripping off Star Wars either And not everyone on the internet is a man

I hope we see fewer comments like this that aren't shitting on projects that you have no stake in anyway

by nusl 25d ago

I hope we see fewer comments like this that aren't shitting on projects that you have no stake in anyway

StilesCrisis 25d ago

This is a business--they have cloud and a sales team.

nusl 25d ago
Fair. I'll rm the personal project bit
stavros 25d ago
Eh, so what? It's whimsical and fun, and it's better if more things like this exist in the world than not.
- mcmcmc 25d ago
  They’re literally reusing IP from The Office. It’s clearly not parody, and they directly reference the show. It’s one thing for a joke project to do that. They are attempting to profit off someone else’s creative work. And not even in the roundabout way AI does.
  - StilesCrisis 25d ago
    Not even in a clever way. The bots don't actually seem to carry any personality traits; they're just ways to label <session_0001> and <session_0002>. I won't accept it as an Office parody if Dwight can work well with others.
  - qup 25d ago
    Legally, I agree. Morally, I think it's totally wild to care if some totally unrelated real world thing gets named after a twenty+ year old cultural icon of a TV show as an homage. They're attempting to profit off their business. The office thing is a theme.
    - mcmcmc 25d ago
      I can’t imagine having so little empathy that you can’t put yourself in the shoes of the creator of the IP. They didn’t even bother to tweak the characters. It’s not “inspired by” or riffing on a theme, it’s a straight ripoff being used to market some AI product. Do you think anyone who created The Office would want to be associated with AI, something that’s threatening to drive them out of a job? What pisses me off the most is it’s just so damn lazy.
      - StilesCrisis 25d ago
        Honestly, making Ricky Gervais upset might be the most redeeming thing in this product.
      - qup 24d ago
        No man, if it's a "straight ripoff", it would be a TV show. Not an programming application.
        mcmcmc 24d ago
        Right, because a Temu backpack with Darth Vader on it isn’t ripping off Star Wars either And not everyone on the internet is a man