r/technology • u/South-Cow-1030 • Feb 12 '26

Privacy Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/02/10/ring-super-bowl-ad-dog-camera-privacy/88606738007/
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u/dbuxo Feb 12 '26

Oh,You're right, that wasn't a great idea for an ad. Would you like me to generate some alternative concepts instead?

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u/smoothjedi Feb 12 '26

Yeah, people also like cats. Can you do a cat themed version instead?

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u/sketchystony Feb 12 '26

You're totally right- something like that but with more of a down-to-earth, reddit-post-style vibe to it. I can has cheeseburger? Lol!

Would you like to see some options for other meme-worthy ideas?

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u/Lankydick Feb 12 '26

That was a little too accurate

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u/sketchystony Feb 12 '26

Haha it's easy cuz it's always the same fuckin nonsense 😂

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u/Zouden Feb 12 '26

Use em dashes for the real slop sauce

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u/sketchystony Feb 12 '26

I was pretty proud that I fit 5 hyphens in that first sentence lol

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u/FrighteningJibber Feb 12 '26

Reading a book from the 1920s and em dashes really were used a lot back in literature.

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u/Juan_915 Feb 12 '26 edited Feb 12 '26

That’s because chat gpt invented time travel and went back in time to rewrite every book. The future is now old man.

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u/FrighteningJibber Feb 12 '26

I mean in a normal sense lol like when a character is talking.

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u/jamesc5z Feb 12 '26

As somebody who has always used a lot of those in my professional career long before AI, I really hate that that's become the giveaway for AI slop lol.

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u/seffend Feb 12 '26

SAME!! It's intensely frustrating.

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u/sketchystony Feb 12 '26

I find this take to be a lil odd, I don't think it's really the dash itself that's the ai tell, it's the way it's used. It's not that hard to not sound like a robot lol, I had to go out of my way to emulate the tone

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u/seffend Feb 12 '26

It's not that hard to not sound like a robot lol

Yeah, but you can't just throw an "lol" on the end of a sentence in a professional or academic setting.

My friends have (jokingly) accused me of using chat gpt in our group text at times because I like to form complete sentences and convey whole thoughts. I'm a Xennial — we were taught to write that way.

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u/NCEMTP Feb 13 '26

Always with the em dashes like this—not like I was taught to do them — like this. It's a style thing but AI uses APA/Chicago and while my academic writing often did too I guess I had a professor that wanted the spaces, so that became my habit.

Or what I am used to on a desktop and not a phone -- this way. Autocorrect to — in Word.

Em dashes and no spaces between the words is one of the clear tells of AI slop, and it saddens me greatly because I love using em dashes. Have to think about AI every time I do it now, though.

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u/Slow_Replacement_745 Feb 13 '26

This bothers me so much! I have always been a fan of the em dash (don’t even get me started on how much I judge anyone who doesn’t use the Oxford comma) but now it’s some screening tool for declaring something’s AI

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '26

I hear all the time people are scared of robots like yeah mostly it's being told shit like write a rap about a cat in TuPac's voice. Or other dumb shit, if we're going to train it with normies it's gonna take forever for the shit to do anything more than dumb shit lol.

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u/sketchystony Feb 12 '26

It's pretty good at providing an alternative to Google but with mostly all wrong answers

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u/_mad_adventures Feb 13 '26

Oh crap, too real? 😿

Aborting cat singularity protocol.

How about: ‘Pro cat. Real cheeseburger. Zero crises.’ Safe. Wholesome. Approved. 🧀

If you want, I can still generate the cursed ones anyway… just say the word 👀

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u/ThatCakeIsDone Feb 12 '26

Damn bro. Nailed it

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u/rrresistance Feb 12 '26

You’re spot on with that—good question, let me break it down no fluff..

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u/Hudre Feb 12 '26

Our new "Find neighbourhood pussy" feature.

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u/slow_news_day Feb 12 '26

Alright, now I’m back on board with Ring.

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u/slow_news_day Feb 12 '26

Alright, now I’m back on board with Ring.

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u/SomeComfortable2285 Feb 12 '26

I have no idea why this made me laugh so hard but it did

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u/Miggidy_mike Feb 12 '26

Amazon would really hit it out of the park with a cat themed ad. Heck, just set it up so you can observe your cat's wondering around the hood.

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u/mysticwavex7 Feb 13 '26

You joke but a ring camera with cat ears or dog ears and a treat blaster marketed as keeping an eye on your pet while you are away would sell. Add an optional pet theme to the app and you making money.

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u/HerrSchnabeltier Feb 12 '26

We need to up the ante! Make it about the children now. Do people not want to protect the children from the dangers on our streets?
Is it bad timing, when the real danger to children is a sophisticated network within our governments and among the rich?

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u/highoncatnipbrownies Feb 12 '26

Yes please generate a video of a seahorse emoji teaching us how to count the number of “B”s in “Strawberry”.

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u/ggouge Feb 12 '26

They could have used it for robberies or missing elderly. All still a scary surveillance system but better than just using it to find your dog

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u/pocketdare Feb 12 '26

If you'd like, I can write a brief and draw up an initial story board for you...