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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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[–] thehatfox@lemmy.world 123 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 12 points 1 month ago
[–] jojo@piefed.social 85 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 77 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 63 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 63 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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

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

[–] spacelord@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago

Yep, not on my watch they won't. 😎

[–] rayyy@piefed.social 11 points 1 month ago

Jokes doubly on them, I don't have the money to buy their stuff.

[–] letsgo2themall@lemmy.world 53 points 1 month ago (4 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 19 points 1 month ago

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

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[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 47 points 1 month 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 24 points 1 month ago

Couldn't predict the horror of ad overlays!

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[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

[–] knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You just bought a thing you need one of. Let me now show you ads of that same thing forever.

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[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 month ago (7 children)
[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Heck, the present is ublock origin!

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

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[–] yggstyle@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago
[–] albbi@piefed.ca 18 points 1 month ago
[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (6 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 14 points 1 month 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.

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[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 month 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!!

[–] termaxima@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 month 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 12 points 1 month 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.

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[–] snooggums@piefed.world 16 points 1 month ago

One of the reasons I went all out in blocking ads was because they were already doing this over a decade ago with stuff with text based on your location or search history. Hit singles in your area listed your city for example.

So yeah, obviously they were going to keep going down that route with AI.

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (3 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.

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[–] falseWhite@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

The future of advertising is AI powered ad-blockers

[–] errer@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

IMO they will not ever make ads with your family’s faces because it will turn people off. Instead, they will make a fake AI family just like your family that you can relate to but won’t realize is actually supposed to be you. That is what they do now with their targeted demos but there’s only so many ads you can make the traditional way. AI will enable making hundreds of variations of the same ad.

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[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 month ago (10 children)

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

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[–] kosanovskiy@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

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

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 month ago
[–] Binturong@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 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

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[–] vector@no.lastname.nz 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

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

Well, fuck that.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

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[–] User79185@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

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

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

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

Gross

Also zucc deserves absolutely terrible things

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[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month 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.

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[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

The future sucks.

[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month 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.

[–] FalseTautology@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago

Got bad news for you advertisers...

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 7 points 1 month ago (2 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.

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[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

Soon enough, Disney will offer a personalize experience to white supremacists pigs where all the good characters are white, and you can pick the bad guy's skin colors. "Jesus had blond hair and blue eyes mom!" "Of course honey, just like Aladin."

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