Former Yahoo CEO and early Google engineer Marissa Mayer is catching a lot of flack for how she uses AI. In an interview about her new app Dazzle, an AI assistant that learns from your camera roll, Mayer poses what she believes is an impressive flex for the product: it helped her come up with three bullet points about her ten-year-old daughter for a birthday presentation at school, describing her as “empathetic, creative, and an animal lover.”
It’s a vague description, like a generic horoscope — it could probably describe a lot of ten-year-olds.
Some onlookers, like progressive activist Leah Greenberg, marveled that “the fact that Marissa Mayer would voluntarily disclose this to a reporter is a pretty good demonstration of how deeply the culture of Silicon Valley has diverged from the rest of humanity.”
