Henry Was Right - by Ben Recht - arg min

On Monday, I offhandedly joked that all of the ads during football were for AI or schizophrenia medications. If you never watch live broadcasts, you may have thought this a literary flourish referencing our increasingly Philip K Dickian timeline. But no! Despite an announced MAHA crackdown on pharmaceutical advertising, Bristol Myers Squibb has been flooding the market with their creepy ad for their new schizophrenia drug. And with the pocket change they have left over from buying stakes in datacenter and chip manufacturing companies, OpenAI is running a weird new ad campaign. I know I’m not the target audience, but I’m still flummoxed by this OpenAI ad campaign. They show twentysomethings dealing with “real life” problems like cooking or fitness. In one ad, some guy asks ChatGPT for a recipe for his date, and it opens with his girlfriend being blown away by his cooking skills. In another, some other guy is trying to get better at pullups and asks ChatGPT for a fitness program. The str

On Monday, I offhandedly joked that all of the ads during football were for AI or schizophrenia medications. If you never watch live broadcasts, you may have thought this a literary flourish referencing our increasingly Philip K Dickian timeline. But no! Despite an announced MAHA crackdown on pharmaceutical advertising, Bristol Myers Squibb has been flooding the market with their creepy ad for their new schizophrenia drug. And with the pocket change they have left over from buying stakes in datacenter and chip manufacturing companies, OpenAI is running a weird new ad campaign. I know I’m not t