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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:

Three screenshots of different emails from Ticketmaster showing the same three people, but with the colours of their clothing changed. The caption beneath follows the formula laid out in the previous paragraph

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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[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

YOU DONT HAVE ENOUGH FINGERS.

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[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 2 points 13 hours ago

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!
[–] llama@lemmy.zip 2 points 14 hours ago

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.

[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 1 points 13 hours ago

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.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

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.

[–] Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I’ve been blocking ads for like 30 years. I see so little advertising I feel like an alien.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I wholeheartedly agree, all ads are cancer and should be removed before they spread.

[–] sulgoth@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Isn't it cool that we let companies commit psychological warfare against us?

[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago

Heck, the present is ublock origin!

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

In an geological scale of time, humanity will very soon cease to exist and this will be undisputed truth

[–] Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 hours ago

Oh, I wish that were true, but things are not this certain.

[–] runsmooth@kopitalk.net 1 points 17 hours ago

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.

[–] termaxima@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 day ago (4 children)

We really need to teach everyone to use ad blockers. Ads have not existed on "my" internet since the 2000s...

[–] Ruigaard@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm always horrified if I'm on a browser without a blocker, the web just so much more distracting and intense.

[–] termaxima@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago

Well, fuck that.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

show your true colors!

Goes to show their trike colors

We are liars, lying is all we do all day, every day, for money

Well thanks for letting me know!

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 2 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Amazon recommended me a book by Charlie Kirk. I guess the algorithm hasn't got me yet.

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[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I have to say, minority report really did a good job portraying parts of the future.

[–] yggstyle@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago
[–] thehatfox@lemmy.world 121 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh look, yet another reason to use an ad blocker.

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[–] knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 76 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The world would be so much better if marketing and advertising were outright banned from the internet.

[–] winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 62 points 2 days ago

Not just the internet

[–] letsgo2themall@lemmy.world 54 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I honestly can't remember the last time I saw an ad. pi-hole + ublock origin. Never see them at all.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] letsgo2themall@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 hours ago

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…

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[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd rather pay for shit and not have ads.

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But that’s the thing, they can have you pay for a 2000 dollar refrigerator and still send you ads.

[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 2 points 1 day ago

Lmao, the ultimate grift

[–] albbi@piefed.ca 18 points 1 day ago

wow they just really want me to start making a list of every product I will never buy again don't they?

[–] jojo@piefed.social 85 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

My hate for AI is growing exponentially every day [stonks]

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 47 points 2 days ago (9 children)

where have i seen that before?

"a screen from idiocracy showing ads everywhere surrounding the title screen for a show called ow my balls"

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[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 62 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Jokes on them, I don't see ads at all :D

(Ublock Origin, Librewolf, Ironfox, GrapheneOS, Sponsorblock, Grayjay saving the day)

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[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 day ago
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