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too bad health outcomes arent the KPI these people are measuring.... profit is the only KPI that matters

Lol... people downvoting stanford university

Lemmy is a wild place.... left wing maga, i guess

I'm curious, in your opinion when does something like this become an ad? Is it an ad if they they pop it up mid-show every hour? No? How about every 10 minutes, is it an ad then?

If you're getting paid to promote someone else's shit, it's an ad...

If you're promoting something related to your own businss on your own propery and not getting paid by an external party, it's probably not an ad...

When you use an app from big tech, you're on their property. They can display whatever they want on their app. They can promise "ad-free" and break that promise if they want... or in this case, most people will agree it's not an ad

Again, my explanation of our enshittified reality is not an endorsement... hence i choose to avoid big tech where i can and opt for free software.

I welcome you to do the same instead of demanding that amazon follow your view of the world

Marketing departments attempt to bend reality and public opinion to benefit their company. Their efforts have obviously been effective with at least one commenter on Lemmy.

lol, you're making judgements on people trying to explain reality to you while you're the one actively giving money to facists

Then cancel your amazon....

I'm just telling you how the world works and why what you're seeing still counts as "ad-free"

i agree it sucks. So cancel your sucky service and don't try to compare me to a child abuse apologist

In the advertising world, it's not advertising, it's a promotion

For example, if you go to the grocery store, there is a difference between hearing/seeing something that says, "bananas are on special today" vs "go buy [specific brand] of cereal today!"

still sucks though

but super fast.

that's already making an "impossible" into a "possible"... and in my books, that's a useful tool if you take all the value judgements out of it.

My parents also said the same thing about electronic music

"it's not real music, the computer makes it!"

every new technology that lowers the barrier of entry gets derided every time. Tale as old as time.

Every new technology that enables more of the masses to participate will obviously mean more low quality stuff gets made. That doesnt mean the tool is worthless.

Is there a lot of AI slop art? Of course there is... but i hate these anti-AI extremists (especially concentrated in the fediverse) that reject ANYTHING that has even touched AI to be worthless.

"oh what a nice picture... wait what? The artist filled in one corner with AI? it's total trash!"

I dont understand how this shit gets upvoted so high....

Its the same thing maga people do: "the mainstream media is biased, so i'll just get my news from random blogs and websites...."

lemmy has become the lefty version of this

Tenacity is still active

Turn it into a spa, folks!

Agree with everything here.... but this isnt news

Half of the posts in this community are just opinion pieces...

We need to have some community standards.