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« It's part of a trend known as "fake-fluencing." That's when companies create fake personas with AI in order to make it look like a real person is endorsing a product or service. The company in this case is Nexa, an AI firm that develops software that other companies can use to recruit new hires. Some of the videos feature Nexa logos in the scene. The company's founder and CEO Divy Nayyar calls that a "subconscious placement" of advertising. »

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[–] teppa@piefed.ca -4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Regardless if its AI or not youth unemployment in Toronto is nearing 20%, which is a great injustice that mass immigration did help create.

How this happened was Covid stimulus, the Bank of Canada printed lots of new currency to buy federal bonds during Covid, which causes a labor shortage as per the phillips curve. We then did mass immigration as the Bank of Canada was jacking up interest rates to cool the job market, and miraculously the labor shortage vanishes and we are left with the excess of people who are now looking for work. This was also why US wages rose much faster than Canada, as we had capital shallowing.

This AI may be bad but the problem is real, and it seems as though this AI slop will be used to refute the fact that people are really suffering due to government manipulation of the economy, with a clear goal to feed corporations cheap labor which the UN then called modern slavery.

[–] Englishgrinn@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Canadian immigration policy in the wake of Covid was reactionary and a mistake, as has been acknowledged by the people who put it in place. Relaxing temporary worker and student visa requirements allowed companies and universities to exploit the government's panic over Covid reconstruction.

But this video is gross for a bunch of unrelated reasons. It's racially charged. It's dishonest. It's propaganda from foreign money.

I understand the impulse to try and pull the conversation back to a substantial policy discussion- that conversation is harder and therefore feels more important- but that's not actually the topic of this post. I think there's value in everyone recognizing and taking time to denounce that gross racists are trying to manipulate Canadians with the one-two punch of racism and AI Slop.

Despite what I believe to be good intentions on your part, I would say that bringing up that more substantial and honest issue in reference to this video actually unintentionally lends them credibility they have absolutely not earned. Don't let your impulse to discuss more important issues inadvertently let someone claim this video is actually "about" anything real. Your seriousness, admirable as it is, shouldn't provide cover to these buffoons.