Infomercial: For-Profit Online University | Adult Swim
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An Adult Swim parody infomercial for a for-profit online university that promises to let you print your own degree. It is absurdist comedy in the style of Tim and Eric.
Mentioned as a joke when threads touch on credentials, degrees or scams.
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3 comments from Hacker News
Sounds like the plot to For-Profit Online University[1]. " I'm a digital gardener." [1] [VIDEO]
My first experience with the term “digital gardening” was in this adult swim commercial for “For Profit Online University”. In that context digital gardeners were basically people given jobs on Mechanical Turk. Ive used the term with my friends over the last decade to describe any sort of endless digital grind-like toil. New crypto games come to mind. (So does Animal Crossing…) [VIDEO] (Concept is introduced at 6:30, but the whole video is hilarious)
I'd love it if marketplaces just banned AI books entirely. I see zero value in it. If I want AI text I can just go to AI it and it'll print out a books worth of text anyway; if I'm searching for a book I want something written by a human. I have zero interest in giving money to grifters and spammers. Incidentally, I feel like Cartoon Network predicted our current dystopian future like over a decade ago with one of their joke infomercials: [VIDEO] . (It's funny at least!) Thought coins and hiding from bots.