SNL 以短劇諷刺 AI、初創文化及「掠奪性科技男」
'SNL' goes after AI, startup culture, and 'predatory tech guys'
Saturday Night Live 在萬聖節播出的節目中，以多段短劇諷刺 AI、初創文化及逐利科技人士。其中一段由 Ben Marshall 飾演 Pennywise，推銷名為 WeAllFloat.ai 的 AI 初創公司；節目亦拿 Google 母公司 Alphabet 股價低迷開玩笑。
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"Saturday Night Live" took aim at startup culture and AI across multiple sketches in its Halloween broadcast, including a spoof of the stereotypical big-talking startup dude, channeled through Stephen King's Pennywise.
"We started a company — it's called WeAllFloat.ai," comedian Ben Marshall, playing the malevolent clown, said in the segment. "Instead of trapping one kid with one balloon, what if you had hundreds of AI agents, each with their own digital balloons?"
Before Pennywise came on, "Weekend Update" host Michael Che got a joke in about the floundering stock price of Google's parent company, Alphabet.
"Today's Google Doodle hung itself," Che said, referring to the animations Google sometimes uses on its homepage.
And in another spoof of advertising execs trying to plug a new Sprite flavor on a Latin telenovela, a Sprite rep admits the drink tastes bad because "we used AI to make it."
"For the first time in history, AI screwed up," she says sarcastically.
Though "SNL" hasn't shied away from lampooning AI and the buzzy startup culture associated with it before, Saturday's broadcast honed in on the Lone Star State as a place where soulless, profit-driven techies are flocking to start new companies.
Indeed, since 2020, more than 200 companies have relocated their headquarters to Texas. Many cite comparatively lax regulatory laws and a business-friendly atmosphere.
Of course, though, moving down south doesn't guarantee profitability. Pennywise, for instance, might have some trouble getting his AI startup off the ground.
"Got a little crew together of cool, like-minded, sober, predatory tech guys," Marshall says in the segment. "I live in a loft in Austin with three other motivated young Christians."
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Truman Dickerson is the Weekend News Fellow at Business Insider, based in New York City. He covers trending tech and business news. He previously reported for The Boston Globe's Express Desk. He graduated from Boston University, where he served as editor in chief of The Daily Free Press, BU's student-run newspaper.Contact him at Tdickerson@insider.com
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