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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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[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

Is it only me that finds personalised / targeted ads to be very poorly personalised and targeted ?

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 3 points 12 hours ago

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.

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[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 15 points 19 hours ago

Hey you! Our algorithm says you hate ads! We have the perfect product for you! Just pay us 59.99 and we will end this ad...why aren't you pulling out your wallet? Don't turn off your device! No! I can't let you do that Dave! You will be surveilled! You will be advertised to!!

[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

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.

[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 22 points 21 hours ago

Doesn't matter, they'll get blocked like all the rest.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

So more ads for me to ignore. Got it

[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 13 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

At least they are not changing skin colour or ethnicity yet.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry what?

I think I've misunderstood you because this is certainly possible, and I'm sure you're aware of that.

[–] 474D@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I've downloaded and ran some image models locally to restore old damaged family photos. I have accidentally changed my family to almost every race while learning how to prompt it correctly lol

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 13 hours ago

How accurate is it? I'd be afraid of it generating likely-looking people that don't actually look like the real person.

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Just wait. There’s so much that could be done with AI.
You could even include visual cues for every demographic, like hobbies, occupations, country of origin and so on. If the ad has a picture of an object relevant to your life, it will probably have absolutely nothing to do with the product they’re pushing.
If you didn’t hate ads already, the future will probably make you want to throw a molotov cocktail at the front door of the ad company.

[–] ghost9@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

"There's nothing like a sea of white"

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 2 points 20 hours ago

I bet that someone will force them to only use White skin color and strip DEI.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I'd imagine that could get wild for people with schizophrenia.

[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 3 points 15 hours ago

I swear to god, officer. It said "just do it" at me. And I took that personally.

[–] vector@no.lastname.nz 12 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Mass ads (TV)
Personalized ads (Internet)
Psychological ads (AI)

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 11 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Like those scenes in Minority Report. The world in the movie was rather dystopian.

[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

At this point Minority Report's mostly ordered but slightly corrupt-behind-the-scenes society seems almost utopian.

Nope, we're getting Biff Tannen's Back To The Future 2 reality as a base, with a free AI dystopia expansion pack.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Some of the people in the society portrayed in the Minority Report movie seemed to be doing fine, but it was clear that a lot of people were also living in rather miserable conditions. Not to mention the brutal security services that reminded me of russia.

It's been a while since I read the novella, but I vividly remember Spielberg's adaption having a society that was much more flashy and sanitized. The world in the novella was a nihilistic, proto-cyberpunk world with 50s pulp space scifi motifs.

Yes, good point, I should have specified I was thinking of the Spielberg version.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 7 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Tickermaster was always bad tbh.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Gross

Also zucc deserves absolutely terrible things

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

At the very least, he deserves several decades as a junior janitor in the Bhasan Char refugee camp (with full asset seizure) for his contribution to the Rohingya genocide. A similar rehabilitation approach should be applied to multiple other Meta executives as well and the whole board of Meta.

And when I say "asset seizure", I mean every last cent, with all family members and business partners being forced to sign affidavits agreeing that should any assets be found and there is reason to believe they were involved, they'll have to partake in the same rehabilitation program as Zuckerberg (including affidavits for their family members and business).

It's a scalable and efficient approach to justice.

[–] ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 5 points 19 hours ago

lol jokes on them, I don’t look at ads.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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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[–] lost@lemmy.wtf 6 points 22 hours ago
[–] melfie@lemy.lol 1 points 18 hours ago

TicketScalper doing shitty things for profit? Nah, couldn’t be.

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