Do you and your human family have interest in sharing an exciting IRL experience supporting your [team of choice] with other human fans at The Big Game? In that case, don the chosen color of your [team of choice] and head to the local [iconic stadium]; Ticketmaster has exciting ticket deals, and soon you and your human family can look as happy and excited as these virtual avatars:
Ticketmaster’s personalized AI slop ads are a glimpse at the future of social media advertising, a harbinger of system that Mark Zuckerberg described last week in a Meta earnings call. This future is one where AI is used both for ad targeting and for ad generation; eventually ads are going to be hyperpersonalized to individual users, further siloing the social media experience: "Advertisers are increasingly just going to be able to give us a business objective and give us a credit card or bank account, and have the AI system basically figure out everything else that’s necessary, including generating video or different types of creative that might resonate with different people that are personalized in different ways, finding who the right customers are,” Zuckerberg said.
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Oh shit where do I buy?
So I get a sprite battle between Santa Coke and Pepsi Man?
Pepsi Man Theme - Man on the Internet
PEPSIMAN Hear the cry of carbonation Echoing throughout the nation When the world needs hydration Salvation comes in a can!Jokes on them because there has to be a product that exists that’s for me in the first place to have AI generated ads for it.
I can’t imagine the cost.
Pay per view pay and cost is very low. Per click is better but still not a lot. Using AI world mean investing significantly more money.
Seems like it would be a money dump.
It might be the future but it’s probably not very effective given how much lower quality the ads become as a result of AI.
I get a sense that people aren’t against easy to understand ads - as in, one company produces a concept, markets, publishes the ad, and delivers it to you on behalf of their client.
But people are not going to agree to reading that article, and consenting to 500 advertising partners to track you indefinitely to sell your data points.
All this technology, energy, and money that’s behind the surveillance economy, is the cost of turning you into the product.
What we the privacy concerned public would like to say is go make real products to help the world instead.
Oh look, yet another reason to use an ad blocker.
Exactly
My hate for AI is growing exponentially every day [stonks]
The world would be so much better if marketing and advertising were outright banned from the internet.
Not just the internet
I try to shy away from extremely hateful, violent thoughts but I genuinely think that great suffering needs to be visited upon the demon that came up with putting advertisements in gas pumps.
Jokes on them, I don’t see ads at all :D
(Ublock Origin, Librewolf, Ironfox, GrapheneOS, Sponsorblock, Grayjay saving the day)
Yep, not on my watch they won’t. 😎
Jokes doubly on them, I don’t have the money to buy their stuff.
I honestly can’t remember the last time I saw an ad. pi-hole + ublock origin. Never see them at all.
I need to update my pi-hole but I’m terrified to… I’ve been using it for more than five years and it’s been a hands-off champion; I’m afraid if I updated it’ll get all fucked up and I’ll have to reinstall.
I’ve had mine probably 5-6 years and I mostly forget about it. I probably update it once a year. It really is a set it and forget it piece of kit.
I was so scared to get it set up… it was my first Linux experience other than an Ubuntu box in 2007 or so. It was soooo much easier than I expected. I have it as my DHCP server tho, so if it goes down, my house has no web. I reeeeeally should update the system and my block lists though…
if there is a service that doesn’t work with my adblockers, i won’t use it.
where have i seen that before?
Couldn’t predict the horror of ad overlays!
Is this the web browser in GTA?
Naa this is from the documentary “Idiocracy”. You should watch it. There are a lot of accurate predictions even though it’s kind of old now.
They got a lot of stuff wrong, TBH. President Camacho, for all his superficial similarity to Trump, is sincerely invested in helping his country. Reality is way, way worse.
The other part is that they depicted the corporations as completely innocent idiots too; “the computer said the money went away so I had to fire people and now they’re all rioting in the streets!” As if the company wasn’t at fault for all of that.
At the end of the day it was a comedy. Sometimes subtly is a virtue.
It’s pretty clear that the movie satirizes and critiques the corporate world.
I’ll give you ‘satire’. But I don’t really agree with ‘critiques’. The lesson i got from the movie was “stupid people can’t really have empathy, so they just need to shut up and let actual smart people do the important work”, and also eugenics.
If it was critiquing the modern corporate structure, it would have included actual critiques of the modern corporate structure, rather than a single poor idiot in charge of a big company who should have just let the smart guy fix it all for him. In short, comapnies as they are would’ve worked if only the smart people were in charge of them.
That’s a fair point. I am just sharing my interpretation.
From the first time watching the movie in 2006 to a recent re-watch, I always got the impression that the eugenics piece was never meant to be taken seriously (or literally). If anything both parties were made to look rather silly in the intro (in their own way). Felt like more of a story setup.
There were definitely many critiques of US corporate culture (I was living in the US around that time after living in Europe and Asia) and the complacency of US society. The TV commercials/shows/ads, the Fox news show, the overboard consumerism, costco university, the Brawndo slogan. It made all of them look bad and stupid.
One could argue that an average guy solving all the worlds problems while the corporate types failed is a damning take on oligarchy.
The director, Mike Judge, didn’t emphasize the more sociopathic and dark elements of oligarchy, but the movie was meant to be a comedy.
Also the eugenics stuff. Yeah, it was just a low-effort way to set up the premis, but eww (and also very incorrect). They had to make sleepwaling into that kind of thing seem plausible with some explanation. Instead, we didn’t actually need that.
Is it only me that finds personalised / targeted ads to be very poorly personalised and targeted ?
You just bought a thing you need one of. Let me now show you ads of that same thing forever.
Bought a tire attachment for my air compressor the other day. You’d think I must live in a house with millions of tires to fill based on my product suggestions.
“Like, you really fucking love tires right? Have you heard of these 6 other tire-filling compressor attachments??”
Yes. Because targeted advertising is just selling something in it’s self. It was always a scam, but the mark os businesses that buy into the idea.
If company A has an ad that’s a good target and pays $20 and company B has an ad that’s a bad target but pays $100, which one are they going to show you?
Not sure what youre getting at.
Obviously it depends how good and how bad.
Also, there going to show both - but the frequency of each will depend on their assessed likelihood that im going to click and the revenue generated if I do so.
Doesn’t matter, they’ll get blocked like all the rest.
The future is no ads.
I’ve been blocking ads for like 30 years. I see so little advertising I feel like an alien.
I wholeheartedly agree, all ads are cancer and should be removed before they spread.
I think the worst thing about them is they’re all kinda bad too. No, scratch that, the worst part is that they still work.
Isn’t it cool that we let companies commit psychological warfare against us?
I think the future of obvious ads are Ai, but the future of ads are your own family members and friends hawking dish soap for 1% commission rates on their social media.
Then you want to create a future that does not serve you. If my family tries to sell me dishsoap, I will stop them. If someone wants to push AI ads, I will block them. There is no known mechanism they have to force me to watch ads.
Adnix by S.R.Hadden.
Heck, the present is ublock origin!
In an geological scale of time, humanity will very soon cease to exist and this will be undisputed truth
Oh, I wish that were true, but things are not this certain.
