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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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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 minutes ago

Well, fuck that.

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 1 points 22 minutes ago

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

[–] termaxima@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

[–] Ruigaard@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 hour ago

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

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

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

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 2 points 21 minutes ago

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

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] _AutumnMoon_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 9 points 7 hours 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 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Karl@literature.cafe 2 points 2 hours ago

Charlie kirk can write?

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 8 hours ago

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.

[–] yggstyle@lemmy.world 13 points 12 hours ago
[–] albbi@piefed.ca 17 points 13 hours ago
[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 13 hours ago
[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

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.

[–] kosanovskiy@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago

Fuck AI and fuck advertising. Useless system reinforced by an even more useless technique.

[–] Binturong@lemmy.ca 12 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Question: What does AI advertise to you if you want nothing and have no money?

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 hours ago

The rice and bean barons will be competing for your attention.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 points 11 hours ago

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.

[–] FalseTautology@lemmy.zip 8 points 13 hours ago

Got bad news for you advertisers...

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 13 points 15 hours ago

Good thing I haven't seen an ad in over a decade

[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 8 points 14 hours ago

The future sucks.

[–] User79185@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I don't need your ads, goodbye (ad blocked and burned).

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 13 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

Advertising doesn't work on me. And it's not because I'm some ultra-savvy "you can't trick me" smart guy (I am but that's not the point)... It's that advertising doesn't speak to me in the way I need to be spoken to. What I need to hear is how a product is going to change my life or improve it, and advertising doesn't do that. All the subtleties about lifestyle, self-worth, being accepted by others, that's just wasted effort on me.

[–] IndridCold@lemmy.ca 11 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I hate advertising so much it has a reverse action on me. If I remember an ad, it turns me away from the product.

I usually ignore advertising. I use all the blockers on my browsers, I don't have or watch regular TV service. I don't have Cable. I don't use Netflix or Amazon streaming.

If I go somewhere and notice an over exposure of an advert - like an entire wall with 30 posters all for Gatoraide, guess what goes on my list of things to never buy. I mean, I never buy coke, pepsi, McD, or the common offenders of overblown adverts. Nothing ends up on my shit list faster than ads like this.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 11 hours ago

Thing is, if you're bombarded by ads for a specific product, it means that company is spending a fortune on advertising. That is, the money their customers are paying them. I'm other words, the customers of those products are being ripped off.

[–] Bunbury@feddit.nl 6 points 16 hours ago

I’ve noticed the same. I also find that I am way less susceptible to certain group dynamics than the average person seems to be. I don’t care about fitting in with the in-crowd or doing the thing everyone else is doing and the bystander effect seems to be nearly absent for me too.

I strongly suspect that those things are very related to neurodivergence in my case. My brain just brains differently.

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[–] letsgo2themall@lemmy.world 48 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Scavenger8294@feddit.org 13 points 18 hours ago

if there is a service that doesn’t work with my adblockers, i won’t use it.

[–] knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 69 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 23 hours ago

Not just the internet

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

How about use it to just find a single goddamned product that I'd actually be interested in buying to show me? Half the time I explicitly enter what I'm looking for into a search field what I want still isn't the top of the results. Cunts.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Because you are not the customer of the ad networks. They are marketing bs to ad buyers, where you actually viewing the ad is merely incedental.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 6 hours ago

You'd think the ad buyers would be trying to sell products or services though. Not only get their ads in front of eyeballs but eyeballs that will buy their shit. Almost every ad I see is completely irrelevant to me.

[–] thehatfox@lemmy.world 106 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 42 points 23 hours 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"

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 21 points 21 hours ago

Couldn't predict the horror of ad overlays!

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[–] falseWhite@lemmy.world 13 points 19 hours ago

The future of advertising is AI powered ad-blockers

[–] jojo@piefed.social 77 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 54 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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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[–] vane@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

Just give AI your credit card bro.

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