Is it only me that finds personalised / targeted ads to be very poorly personalised and targeted ?
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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.
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!!
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.
Doesn't matter, they'll get blocked like all the rest.
So more ads for me to ignore. Got it
At least they are not changing skin colour or ethnicity yet.
Sorry what?
I think I've misunderstood you because this is certainly possible, and I'm sure you're aware of that.
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
How accurate is it? I'd be afraid of it generating likely-looking people that don't actually look like the real person.
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.
"There's nothing like a sea of white"
I bet that someone will force them to only use White skin color and strip DEI.
I'd imagine that could get wild for people with schizophrenia.
I swear to god, officer. It said "just do it" at me. And I took that personally.
Mass ads (TV)
Personalized ads (Internet)
Psychological ads (AI)
Like those scenes in Minority Report. The world in the movie was rather dystopian.
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.
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.
Tickermaster was always bad tbh.
Gross
Also zucc deserves absolutely terrible things
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.
lol jokes on them, I don’t look at ads.
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.
Oh, fuck.
TicketScalper doing shitty things for profit? Nah, couldn’t be.

