no i have not seen an ad in years
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I only ever see them when I'm using other peoples stuff. It's always really jarring.
Whenever I visit someone who watches TV my first thought is always a shocked "wtf, how do you live like this?" as they zone out for the commercial break every five minutes.
It poisons the brain, it has to be detrimental to mental health to be subjected to this for your whole life. When you don't see them for weeks and then it pops up it feels offensive.
Finally a useful application for AI, removing the middleman from affiliate marketing scams
unlimited obsolescence on inFLUencerSS!!
I've been seeing Shopify ads telling me I can set up a dropshipping business in just a few clicks
And to run the business you just use one of these "bookkeeping with AI" apps. I'm sure that's not going to cause any issue whatsoever...
What not blocking ads does to a mf
This was when I was at a friends and some of their streaming services play ads.
What not blocking ads does to a mf's friend
i hope you criticised their lack of ad blocking
Well, I did mention I could help them block ads, maybe I can convince them, eventually.
how to make friends and influence people (2025)
If saying "yooooo why haven't you installed ublock these ads are disgusting" is somehow a dealbreaker for a relationship it was never one to begin with lmao come on now let's not be melodramatic
totally fair. I guess I read criticizing as more, well, critical. I'm a rude enough person as it is I need to be careful how I go about these things lol.
Tell em the friendship is fucking OVER because you had to see a L'Oreal Hair Dye ad before your youtube video
you should end your friendship with them
I've seen one that may have also been for a phone or something where some Young Person says ”Hey Gemini, I need to study for an exam, can you read this material and summarize it for me?” and uses her phone to scan the material or something? Then the AI explains it to a whole crowd of people and they're able to ask followup questions.
First of all, lol, there's absolutely no way this works as advertised. Second, there's no way a scenario where a bunch of students crowd around one phone to study and ask the phone questions has happened or will ever happen.
hey gemini, how do I kill myself?
I never saw one of those ads until now - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bBfYX8X5aU
this advertisement is genuinely dystopian, creepy, and bizarre. please never make an ad about AI like this ever again
The funny thing is that reply was the summary in my google results.
Oh wow, that's not the ad I was thinking of, but it's almost as bad.
not the ad I was thinking of
I couldn't find that one. Google was shit. As always.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
AI is being marked as a replacement for having thoughts and making decisions.
Its crazy because some of the AI ads I've seen are literally just shit i would have googled back when google actually kinda worked, like how to fix something. Now you get to boil the ocean and the search results are worse.
I would put money on AI being involved in the creation and writing of an ad like that, which might explain the uncanny vibe it has. Or maybe it's just corporate suits who don't know how to talk to actual humans.
Can we make a new internet where companies over 10 employees are specifically banned from participation? Including subsidiaries or smaller companies underneath "parent" companies or something.
Normally I would agree with this, but if I do, I would be the 11th person thus barring it from happening.
i think last year or whenever apple was peddling it's "intelligence", the funniest ad i have seen popped up, where a guy scans a dog with camera to determine its breed, while standing 2 meters away from owner. Like my man, what kind of crippling anxiety you can possibly have for that to make any amount of sense, even for deaf person it would be easier to signal and give a phone to write the name, cause it's just nicer behavior.
No, my adblockers aren't playing, irl I've been blessed to not have seen any weird AI ads, just awkward regular ones.
The AI ads I always get are just grifters shilling how to do basic life tasks with our custom AI! And it describes just putting all your daily tasks into a spread sheet and then letting ai build your weekly schedules for you.
The ones where it promises to make you a better writer is very funny as well. Because it isn't really making you a better writer now is it? And is it really better? Or is it simply something that might usually be grammatically correct but often will lack any substance to the topic you are writing about.