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[–] movies@lemmy.world 166 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Dude’s a copywriter and can’t use “it’s” properly. Grammar must be less important when you’re making 400k a month.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 29 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (7 children)

"It's" is a valid contraction of "it has".

Edit: glossed over the other "it's"... doh.

[–] bitwise@lemmy.ca 67 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

"But not many people know how to use it to it's full advantage"

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

You really hit the nail on it's is head

[–] giacomo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

this is why I hate its vs it's. if "it" was Dave, it would be to Dave's full advantage.

this shit will likely never make sense to me.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

You only do "it's" for "it is".

The rest are "its". That simple. You don't do it for possession with "it".

[–] SystemDisc@feddit.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

If you can replace “it’s” with “it is” or “it has” it needs an apostrophe. If you can’t, because it’s a possessive pronoun showing ownership, there’s no apostrophe.

“It’s a good day.”/“It’s been a good day.”

vs

“Its day was good.”

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[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 weeks ago

Sure. Not here, though.

[–] himezero@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

Other it’s. Some would say people don’t know how to use “it” to its fullest advantage.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"It has helped me..." doesn't sound quite correct to me but i am not a native speaker so i may be wrong

[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

English speakers use has/have/had to signify perfect tenses, meaning the actions are completed but have effects that continue.

So past perfect: It had helped me. Present perfect: it has helped me.

[–] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No. 'Has helped' is the present perfect.

[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago
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[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 weeks ago

Scammers have been filtering this way for decades.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago

1000% this guy just uses an LLM

[–] Juice@midwest.social 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

This is broing but it mkaes me $400,000K a munth an 90 present margarines
Copyediting.

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 103 points 3 weeks ago

Ad: Send me 50€ and learn how to play the guitar!

If you send 50€:

"Thank you for the 50€, now don't forget to learn how to play the guitar."

[–] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 55 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I make over 73 cents a month staring at the sidewalk as I walk to work. With 3 easy payments of 59.99 I can show you how.

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

... how... does copywriting... have ... margins?

What are you classing as expenses?

You need an AP Style Guide, and your brain, and working eyes and fingers and a keyboard mouse and computer.

Wtf are margins?

You have an ongoing regular cost?

... this is a guide on how to set up some kind of LLM to do your copywriting, isn't it?

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

He's also accidentally claiming expenses in the realm of 40k a month. Even the most expensive llm don't need that.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 weeks ago

Of course it is.

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[–] GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone 42 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The broker that my retirement account is through is pushing some new AI insights tool. The screenshots show an example of a conversation that essentially goes.

Q: "How can I reach my retirement savings goals faster?"

A: "Consider contributing more to your 401k from each paycheck."

People will actually pay money to have some slop chatbot tell them that they can have more money in their account if they put more money in their account. Preying on stupid or lazy people is an extremely lucrative industry.

[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Anyone who buys it deserves what they get.

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

And we the people deserve everything that the scammer gets out of the idiot, just so

[–] Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 37 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

How to Make a Million Dollars
Paperback
$1,000,000.00 - Add to cart

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Shit you're right. If I price it half a million, no way two idiots buy a copy

[–] roserose56@lemmy.zip 30 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If nothing else, that Louis Theroux documentary about the manosphere exposed how all this influencer crap is built on a bunch of exceptionally dubious finance apps, that make Bernie Madoff look like a legit business mogul.

They all talked about how wealthy they were, but none of them really seemed rich. Rich people aren't up at 6am editing YouTube shorts and putting in the right hashtags. They're all living on borrowed money, and you get the feeling that if any of them tried to step off the treadmill, there'd be no life left to go back to.

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[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 22 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

With AI running rampant, I have to imagine copywriters have been decimated.

[–] markstos@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

I know one recently laid off. AI wasn’t explicitly the reason but his next job seems unlikely to be copyediting.

[–] w3ird_sloth@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Got laid off last fall. SEO is already pretty much slop so it was the perfect industry for LLMs. It was already getting hard to find good content online because of all the garbage we were loading up with keywords to game search. Now with AI generating it 24/7 traditional search is just dead in the water.

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[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Last night we were playing D&D and one of other players showed off a miniature character model he had generated with AI. "I'm glad I didn't go to school for 3D modeling", he says.

Guess what I took a bunch of classes for since the 1990s.

Whatever, my models all have more heart than slop. They can't afford me and I'm not making them free models anyways.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This isn't just the scamming internet randos, it goes into pretty high level business consulting.

"We just hired a company that has never worked in our field who doesn't employ anyone who has worked in our field to tell us how to work in our field better than we do today, this should be great!"

They always act so shocked that the consultancy did them zero good after giving them a few months.

[–] iocase@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 weeks ago

The consultants are literally a place to blame for mass firings or restructuring. Most of the time they recommend changes management wanted but couldn't say out loud since it would spook shareholders. It's dumb but it's how the majority of the consultancy grift works.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

If you could make that kind of money with copy writing, I'd be rich. Copy writers, tech writers, basically any kind of writers are always underappreciated and underpaid.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"No money down!". Snake Oil is still a thing in this complicated techno landscape.

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago

The word “journey” has been completely ruined by business idiots.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

"from my tiny, 1 bedroom apartment...."

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

You wouldn't want the answer, it's like, boring

[–] arc99@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Reminds me of those ads where scammer pretends if you invest in some obvious scam you too will own a jet and a Ferarri just like him. If it was such an amazing way to make money the last thing they'd do is tell anyone else about it.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

how do you suppose theyre making that 400k?

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[–] minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Why are you teaching him why his scam isn't working?

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Why not try to protect the general populace?

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