this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2025
407 points (96.6% liked)

Technology

76648 readers
3286 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

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.

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

YOU DONT HAVE ENOUGH FINGERS.

LOOK AT HOW HAPPY THESE PEOPLE ARE. THEIR HAPPINESS IS BECAUSE THEY HAVE MORE FINGERS! MORE FINGERS MORE HAPPINESS!!!!! CLICK HERE NOW TO BUY FINNEGAN'S FINGERS THE BEST FINGERS THAT WILL EVER FING!!!!!

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 2 points 12 hours ago

Oh shit where do I buy?

[–] Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 days ago (5 children)
[–] architect@thelemmy.club 1 points 12 hours ago

I think the future of obvious ads are Ai, but the future of ads are your own family members and friends hawking dish soap for 1% commission rates on their social media.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wholeheartedly agree, all ads are cancer and should be removed before they spread.

[–] sulgoth@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think the worst thing about them is they're all kinda bad too. No, scratch that, the worst part is that they still work.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Isn't it cool that we let companies commit psychological warfare against us?

[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Heck, the present is ublock origin!

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In an geological scale of time, humanity will very soon cease to exist and this will be undisputed truth

[–] Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Oh, I wish that were true, but things are not this certain.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

So I get a sprite battle between Santa Coke and Pepsi Man?

Pepsi Man Theme - Man on the Internet


PEPSIMAN

Hear the cry of carbonation
Echoing throughout the nation
When the world needs hydration
Salvation comes in a can!
[–] llama@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Jokes on them because there has to be a product that exists that's for me in the first place to have AI generated ads for it.

[–] termaxima@slrpnk.net 16 points 2 days 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 2 days 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.

[–] termaxima@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Nowadays I'm even starting to find it annoying on a browser with adblock, but without NoScript ! Quite a bit of nonsense disappears when you take the few seconds to only enable the scripts a page actually needs

Also, YouTube specifically is a horrible experience without an extension like UnTrap to turn like 75% of the buttons off.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 days ago

Well, fuck that.

[–] thehatfox@lemmy.world 120 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

I can't imagine the cost.

Pay per view pay and cost is very low. Per click is better but still not a lot. Using AI world mean investing significantly more money.

Seems like it would be a money dump.

[–] knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 76 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 62 points 3 days ago

Not just the internet

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

It might be the future but it's probably not very effective given how much lower quality the ads become as a result of AI.

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days 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.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days 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.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] jojo@piefed.social 85 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[–] letsgo2themall@lemmy.world 53 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I need to update my pi-hole but I’m terrified to.. I’ve been using it for more than five years and it’s been a hands-off champion; I’m afraid if I updated it’ll get all fucked up and I’ll have to reinstall.

[–] letsgo2themall@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've had mine probably 5-6 years and I mostly forget about it. I probably update it once a year. It really is a set it and forget it piece of kit.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

I was so scared to get it set up… it was my first Linux experience other than an Ubuntu box in 2007 or so. It was soooo much easier than I expected. I have it as my DHCP server tho, so if it goes down, my house has no web. I reeeeeally should update the system and my block lists though…

[–] Scavenger8294@feddit.org 19 points 2 days ago

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

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

show your true colors!

Goes to show their trike colors

We are liars, lying is all we do all day, every day, for money

Well thanks for letting me know!

[–] yggstyle@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago
[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 62 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

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

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

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 47 points 3 days 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 3 days ago

Couldn't predict the horror of ad overlays!

load more comments (8 replies)
[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

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

[–] albbi@piefed.ca 18 points 2 days ago
[–] runsmooth@kopitalk.net 1 points 1 day ago

I get a sense that people aren't against easy to understand ads - as in, one company produces a concept, markets, publishes the ad, and delivers it to you on behalf of their client.

But people are not going to agree to reading that article, and consenting to 500 advertising partners to track you indefinitely to sell your data points.

All this technology, energy, and money that's behind the surveillance economy, is the cost of turning you into the product.

What we the privacy concerned public would like to say is go make real products to help the world instead.

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 days ago
[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (7 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.

load more comments (7 replies)
load more comments
view more: next ›