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?
Heck, the present is ublock origin!
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.
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.
We really need to teach everyone to use ad blockers. Ads have not existed on “my” internet since the 2000s…
I’m always horrified if I’m on a browser without a blocker, the web just so much more distracting and intense.
Nowadays I’m even starting to find it annoying on a browser with adblock, but without NoScript ! Quite a bit of nonsense disappears when you take the few seconds to only enable the scripts a page actually needs
Also, YouTube specifically is a horrible experience without an extension like UnTrap to turn like 75% of the buttons off.
I’ve had some trouble setting up a pie-hole. It’s an imperfect system and something of a constant struggle between advertisers and ad-blockers.
If you’ve escaped every digital ad over the last 25 years, congrats. I’m reasonably tech savy, use adblockers where I can, and haven’t been remotely this fortunate.
I mean something simple as Ublock Origin/Adnauseum with Firefox or an appropriate fork would work well, I’d presume.
Definitely stems the tide, but it’s a long way from “never seen an ad in 25 years”
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Oh shit where do I buy?
Well, fuck that.
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.
Charlie kirk can write?
Not any more.
Fuck AI and fuck advertising. Useless system reinforced by an even more useless technique.
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
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.
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.
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.
Agreed. I literally use an adblocker on youtube videos that are mostly 1 hour+ 80s/90s nostalgia ad compilations set to vaporwave lol
The issue is that advertizing used to have incentive to be compelling, interesting, memorable, or otherwise just leave you with a good feeling/association with the product they were trying to promote.
Now that every slop corporation is under the impression that they have your attention hostage, they feel justified in shoving literal 3-minute long reels of tiktok videos with MLM chicks screeching about how their makeup is “deadass rizz on god”. You can beat your ass it’s gonna be blocked from my screen lol
I have to say, minority report really did a good job portraying parts of the future.
The seas of purple / red / gold juxtaposed really does put into perspective the contrived sycophancy and camaraderie that comes with spectator sports. Artificial unity for its own sake, rather than for a common principle or a common goal.
It’s community with artificial colors and flavoring.
This all could backfire on the advertisers hard, especially with some well-placed counter-advertising.
Got bad news for you advertisers…
The future sucks.
