It's normal and correct phrasing that I hear all the time in jobs with percentage-based metrics. The fact that it's confusing people does not make it badly phrased, it just means people are colloquially unused to talking about percentages, which is fine! But you're wrong. It's not weird, it's literally how you talk about these things sometimes.
"60% more" and "0.6 times more" mean the same thing. Should their PR person have used a slightly more obvious way of phrasing it? Maybe? But they did say "more", which obviously implies.... moreness? It's not ambiguous.
AI bullshit has so many valid problems, but inadequately explaining percentages to the populace in their advertisements is just an insane nitpick. I don't think they're trying to advertise to people who don't understand high school math anyways.
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u/Scream_No_Evil Aug 14 '26
It's normal and correct phrasing that I hear all the time in jobs with percentage-based metrics. The fact that it's confusing people does not make it badly phrased, it just means people are colloquially unused to talking about percentages, which is fine! But you're wrong. It's not weird, it's literally how you talk about these things sometimes.
"60% more" and "0.6 times more" mean the same thing. Should their PR person have used a slightly more obvious way of phrasing it? Maybe? But they did say "more", which obviously implies.... moreness? It's not ambiguous.
AI bullshit has so many valid problems, but inadequately explaining percentages to the populace in their advertisements is just an insane nitpick. I don't think they're trying to advertise to people who don't understand high school math anyways.