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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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[–] FalseTautology@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 days ago

Got bad news for you advertisers...

The future sucks.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 days 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.

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'd rather pay for shit and not have ads.

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wow they just really want me to start making a list of every product I will never buy again don't they?

[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days 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.

[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 12 points 4 days ago (9 children)

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

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[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 7 points 4 days 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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[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 1 points 2 days 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.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days 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.

[–] vector@no.lastname.nz 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

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

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days 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."

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

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

[–] runsmooth@kopitalk.net 1 points 3 days 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.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Gross

Also zucc deserves absolutely terrible things

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[–] vane@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Just give AI your credit card bro.

[–] lost@lemmy.wtf 6 points 4 days ago

Well that’s repulsive in the extreme

lol jokes on them, I don’t look at ads.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

So more ads for me to ignore. Got it

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