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.
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.
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.
Adnix by S.R.Hadden.
Oh look, yet another reason to use an ad blocker.
Exactly
YOU DONT HAVE ENOUGH FINGERS.
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Oh shit where do I buy?
The world would be so much better if marketing and advertising were outright banned from the internet.
Not just the internet
My hate for AI is growing exponentially every day [stonks]
I honestly can’t remember the last time I saw an ad. pi-hole + ublock origin. Never see them at all.
if there is a service that doesn’t work with my adblockers, i won’t use it.
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…
Personalised my foot. When I browsed youtube logged into my google account all I got was generic TV ads for womens hair care products. I am a bald male.
Amazon recommended me a book by Charlie Kirk. I guess the algorithm hasn’t got me yet.
Well, fuck 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.
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.
Advertising doesn’t work on me. And it’s not because I’m some ultra-savvy “you can’t trick me” smart guy (I am but that’s not the point)… It’s that advertising doesn’t speak to me in the way I need to be spoken to. What I need to hear is how a product is going to change my life or improve it, and advertising doesn’t do that. All the subtleties about lifestyle, self-worth, being accepted by others, that’s just wasted effort on me.
I hate advertising so much it has a reverse action on me. If I remember an ad, it turns me away from the product.
I usually ignore advertising. I use all the blockers on my browsers, I don’t have or watch regular TV service. I don’t have Cable. I don’t use Netflix or Amazon streaming.
If I go somewhere and notice an over exposure of an advert - like an entire wall with 30 posters all for Gatoraide, guess what goes on my list of things to never buy. I mean, I never buy coke, pepsi, McD, or the common offenders of overblown adverts. Nothing ends up on my shit list faster than ads like this.
Thing is, if you’re bombarded by ads for a specific product, it means that company is spending a fortune on advertising. That is, the money their customers are paying them. I’m other words, the customers of those products are being ripped off.
I’ve noticed the same. I also find that I am way less susceptible to certain group dynamics than the average person seems to be. I don’t care about fitting in with the in-crowd or doing the thing everyone else is doing and the bystander effect seems to be nearly absent for me too.
I strongly suspect that those things are very related to neurodivergence in my case. My brain just brains differently.
Ads can work on me but it’s context dependent.
If it’s something I was already aware of and wanting, I have noticed that it can push my mind further in the direction of wanting to get it.
The other context is food. Like, if I’m hungry and I see an ad for food, it always looks like it’d hit the spot even if I know it wouldn’t.
Otherwise it just doesn’t actively do anything. If I need a product and have seen advertisements for a specific one, I still do research before choosing what to go with. And rarely ever is it the one I saw advertised.
The psychology of advertising is very interesting especially when you can actively feel its effects on yourself, and when you can tell it’s doing nothing to you.
The other context is food. Like, if I’m hungry and I see an ad for food, it always looks like it’d hit the spot even if I know it wouldn’t.
The exception for me is pizza. When they show it pulling apart with the cheese being stringy. I fucking hate that. It grosses me out.
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.
Question: What does AI advertise to you if you want nothing and have no money?
If current “personalized ” advertising is any indication, the new ai ads will push
- whatever you most recently bought
- gambling
- something relevant to whatever demographic it’s hallucinating
But it will never do something useful like advertise things you’re searching for
Crazy how much money is flooding into something so absurd on its face. You nailed the gambling part especially, looks like they’re not even waiting for the AIs to develop to flood that junk on every available platform and visible surface. There should be laws against it honestly, gambling addiction is absolutely ruinous.
I had to Google a tech problem recently. The Internet is officially dead. I should just start a gambling website and at least be comfortable in my remaining years.
The rice and bean barons will be competing for your attention.
Have you seen daytime TV? It’s a sea of ads for shite you’d never want, and if you have no money for the shite, there’s ads for loans as well.
Not in years, I avoid that shit like cancer, I feel physical pain when I’m sitting through ads. Can’t say I’m at all surprised.
I’m not against ads in principle. The advertisers are paying the bill for stuff I consume. Great.
For that effort, they get a chance at my wallet. And to be honest, making me aware of a business or product is indeed a way to get me interested in what they sell. I do prefer the ads to be relevant instead of always useless.
That being said, it’s currently preferable to use a blocker and let the people who don’t know how to use blockers subsidize my ad-free ways.
