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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 121 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 77 points 1 week 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 week ago (1 children)
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[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 63 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 13 points 1 week ago

Yep, not on my watch they won't. 😎

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

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

[–] letsgo2themall@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week 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 week 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 week ago (2 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 week ago

Couldn't predict the horror of ad overlays!

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is this the web browser in GTA?

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Naa this is from the documentary "Idiocracy". You should watch it. There are a lot of accurate predictions even though it's kind of old now.

[–] lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They got a lot of stuff wrong, TBH. President Camacho, for all his superficial similarity to Trump, is sincerely invested in helping his country. Reality is way, way worse.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The other part is that they depicted the corporations as completely innocent idiots too; "the computer said the money went away so I had to fire people and now they're all rioting in the streets!" As if the company wasn't at fault for all of that.

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

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

[–] knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 7 points 1 week ago

Bought a tire attachment for my air compressor the other day. You'd think I must live in a house with millions of tires to fill based on my product suggestions.

"Like, you really fucking love tires right? Have you heard of these 6 other tire-filling compressor attachments??"

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[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

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

[–] yggstyle@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago
[–] albbi@piefed.ca 18 points 1 week ago
[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week 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 week 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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[–] snooggums@piefed.world 15 points 1 week 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.

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

The future of advertising is AI powered ad-blockers

[–] errer@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week 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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[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 week 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!!

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 week ago
[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 week ago (10 children)

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

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 6 days ago

it will be hard to make african american have white people skin, it would be so obvious

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[–] Binturong@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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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[–] kosanovskiy@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

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

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

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

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

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

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

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

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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The future sucks.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Gross

Also zucc deserves absolutely terrible things

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[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week 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 week ago

Got bad news for you advertisers...

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 7 points 1 week 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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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week 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.

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week 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."

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Tickermaster was always bad tbh.

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