SF's AI billboards are making us sick. These people are fighting back.

San Francisco is blanketed in AI billboards that make no sense. And most of us have just... stopped reading them. But a few people are fighting back. This week on PST, host Emily Dreyfuss talks to three of them. Harris Alterman and Dave Ross are two New York comedians who've been plastering parody AI ads in the NYC subway ("Payroll, now in pill form." "UnderwAIr. Panties that think.”). Then, there’s Tucker Bryant, a San Francisco conceptual artist who rented a real billboard in the city's SoMa neighborhood and used it to advertise a fake chatbot – one powered not by artificial intelligence, but by himself, an “average individual." The result is a conversation about tech satire, cognitive surrender, the psychological toll of living inside someone else's hype, and what it means to crave actual human connection in a city increasingly decorated with gibberish. Plus: Emily's theory on how AI billboards hit every dimension of sociological alienation – and why that's more serious than it sounds. For more information and episode transcripts, visit: https://sfstandard.com/pacific-standard-time/ Support this podcast from The San Francisco Standard by becoming a subscriber: ⁠https://sfstandard.com/subscriber