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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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[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks 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!
[–] runsmooth@kopitalk.net 1 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I thought for a second they were AIing their potential customers into the ad image like "picture yourself at the game", I'm sure that's next... unconsentually.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just imagining future ads once data collection gets to more insane points. Just imagining AI scanning your facebook page, then pushing clothing ads with pictures of you in the outfits, or the new TV with pictures of it in your house etc...

Honestly maybe we should get ahead of it... like intentionally make our facebook accounts showing some cave man living in a cave, and in 2 years when the advertisers start going stupid crazy... watch ads show up on it depicting a flat screen TV in a cave.

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[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] melfie@lemy.lol 1 points 2 weeks ago

TicketScalper doing shitty things for profit? Nah, couldn’t be.

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