""It is absolutely absurd," Temkin tells Fast Company. "Some of these are absolutely impenetrable. Like, what are they even talking about? It makes me wonder what the intention is.""
""We were looking at this and realized it just absolutely needed to be mocked, scrutinized, and kind of looked at in a sideways manner," he says. "My own thinking was this is both actually hilarious and kind of slightly ominous at the same time.""
David Temkin encountered billboard ads full of dense, opaque AI jargon and found the messaging absurd and impenetrable. He has a long history in Silicon Valley, founding startups and working at major tech companies. Temkin co-founded In Formation, a satirical print magazine that returned after roughly 25 years to ridicule and scrutinize tech self-importance. The third issue totals 150 pages of articles, essays, comics, jokes, and fake ads. The magazine expanded distribution through a Barnes & Noble deal, appearing in over 500 stores, and targets topics including data privacy, artificial intelligence, and biotech.
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