Just give AI your credit card bro.
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The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You
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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.
So more ads for me to ignore. Got it
Well that’s repulsive in the extreme
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.
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.
The future is no ads.
We think with ad blockers we're shielded by ads and to some degree, we are. At least we don't have to see the abominations. But ads are insidious. They echo. We can block the actual ads but we live in a reality that is molded by ads. They're massive coordination mechanisms that alter our shared culture. They push the masses into lifestyles and into brands. We can still shield ourselves, to some degree, from being influenced by all of this. But we can't really escape a world where a brand not only is a product but also a symbol.
I have to say, minority report really did a good job portraying parts of the future.
I'd rather pay for shit and not have ads.
But that’s the thing, they can have you pay for a 2000 dollar refrigerator and still send you ads.
I thought for a second they were AIing their potential customers into the ad image like "picture yourself at the game", I'm sure that's next... unconsentually.
Just imagining future ads once data collection gets to more insane points. Just imagining AI scanning your facebook page, then pushing clothing ads with pictures of you in the outfits, or the new TV with pictures of it in your house etc...
Honestly maybe we should get ahead of it... like intentionally make our facebook accounts showing some cave man living in a cave, and in 2 years when the advertisers start going stupid crazy... watch ads show up on it depicting a flat screen TV in a cave.
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TicketScalper doing shitty things for profit? Nah, couldn’t be.
wow they just really want me to start making a list of every product I will never buy again don't they?