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We created a fake delivery company to get a job


/imagine one day randomly finding yourself in a foreign country thousands of kilometres away from home. Your own country is suddenly at war, and all you have is a backpack hanging off your back. That’s a weird situation to be in. But you have to figure something out. So starting a fake delivery company sounds like the most reasonable solution.

The final list ended up being a kombucha of industries: from the top investment fund and private jet broker, to the leading fashion brand and largest gaming, media, consulting and creative agency firms. Upon unlocking it, they are faced with a video of themselves in the future talking to themselves in ''now''.This involved months of us frustratingly tinkering with Artifical Intelligence tech and inventing lots of bicycles to establish our workflow.In a nutshell, we cloned their voice and appearance and made a movie-like trailer with a message. A small caveat though, that was a cease and desist letter from their lawyers ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)BBCIgnored (probably thought that was a bomb)Dazed mediaIgnoredWPPIgnoredTo add this post extra sophistication, I've asked ChatGPT to generate fancy charts based off this data.

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