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[–] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 149 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

it's refreshing that i've seen exactly one post about the sportsball game, and it's not even about the sportsball, but about how people are sick of shit to do with advertising

[–] Maiq@piefed.social 60 points 3 weeks ago

Usually the only way I know the game is on is the increased owl love in my feed.

[–] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] hector@lemmy.today 7 points 3 weeks ago

I'm just glad they beat the New England Pedants. Or is it the New England Pedophiles, that would make more sense considering.

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[–] BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 103 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It felt like half the ads were either fully AI generated, used AI slop or were for an AI slop factory company. It turned the game tonight into "which ads aren't AI slop" for me.

I cannot fucking wait for this bubble to burst

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 46 points 3 weeks ago

Even the traditional ads with big name actors had seriously weird uncanny valley faces.

This was the worst Superbowl for ads IMO. They've been trash for years, buy this was a new low.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 18 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Except after this bubble bursts they will bail these companies out with tax dollars.

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[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 79 points 3 weeks ago

“Ads are coming to AI”

What an absolutely terrifying statement. Advertising should be abolished.

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 70 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

The funniest thing about this is that using AI slop for Superbowl ads is actually peak capitalism. The cost of the ad space itself dwarfs the cost for producing the ads, with AI or not. But the worthless MBAs driving this just can't help themselves.

[–] captcha_incorrect@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Having commercials as a tradition is peak capitalism.

Super Bowl commercials are a beloved tradition

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[–] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 67 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It really reminded me of the Super Bowl back in 2000 when all the ads were for websites, which was right before the "Dot Com" bubble burst...

[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Only difference, is they had good ads and not just insert a celebrity ads.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Fuck celebrities. When did they become so money hungry and do ads for anything. Kevin Hart is the worst he'll do an ad for anything.

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[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 weeks ago

I heard you like ads

the site may be shady idk click at your own riskhttps://www.durgasoft.com/

img for those that don't want to click itWith ublock origin enabled btw:

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 60 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I suppose it's heartening that the more we're forced to see AI slop, the more people seem to hate it.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's kind of ugly and not exactly confidence inspiring, since everything they are putting out there the potential customers know how to make the same thing.

I saw an AI ad where they made three AI generated 'testimonials'. So this told me that not only could they fail to find even three actual customers to just say the words they wanted, they couldn't even dig up three actors or even three random employees to say the words. How pathetic must your offering be if you can't get even a handful of real humans to at least lie for it?

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

potential customers know how to make the same thing

This is 100% why I stay away from it. LLM's are just a incremental race to the middle, to the generic. Who wants their work product to be exactly the same as everyone else's?

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 36 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Also the Olympics had AI generated clips in their opening ceremony, Pandora’s box has been opened unfortunately.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago

That opening video of the Olympics was disgusting, how they could approve it to show "Italian excellence in design"????

Btw I find hilarious that openai themselves used traditional methods to make their codex ad while everyone else is using the slop generators "we can save $5000 if we bruteforce our way with thousands of prompts"

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 35 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

This ad was insultingly bad. It was bad AI and not funny?

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9zitc6

[–] flowers_galore2@lemmynsfw.com 15 points 3 weeks ago

Ugh what was that

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[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 34 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The bowl I smoked in my garage was more super than that game

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 24 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

depends on what you want from a game. fans of good defense saw something beautiful. miraculous. they saw a team just outright bully another for an entire hour. the other team also faced incredible defense, they just overcame it enough to put enough points on the board to win.

that said.

i hate that all of this knowlege of the game still lives within me when the whole sport is structured around everyone trying to be chill about continuous brain damage

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I loved every minute on the field and still like watching the game, but the NFL is a terrible organization and if I had kids I don’t think I’d want them subject to all the concussions I got over the years.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah. I loved playing football, but knowing what I do now I have a very different perspective on the game. I was very good, and probably could have gotten a full-ride scholarship prettu easily if I hadn't quit for stupid reasons, but now I think my juvenile self may have accidentally made a great call.

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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

It was horrible. Next year im doing my original plan and going skiing. Best ski day because it’s empty. Way better use of my time

[–] gdog05@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not a big sports fan so I can't believe I'd ever choose the Superbowl over anything. I think I'd rather fold my laundry. Creating custom backgrounds for a 1994 mah jong DOS game feels like a better use of time. But, if you enjoy the game with friends and/or family then it's probably not a bad use of time.

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[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 3 weeks ago

There were may many ai ads and they were fucking awful

[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 24 points 3 weeks ago

So fucking many. When you heard they spent billions and billions on AI I didn't know it was all for Super Bowl commercials

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Watched on my DVR over an hour after the game started so I could fast forward through all the ads.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago

But the game is designed around ads. Imagine paying $5000 for tickets to watch people stand around every 30 seconds.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Isn't that the same every year though? You've got all the dumbest, drunkest eyeballs watching, time to roll out the biggest scams.

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[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 weeks ago

As if I needed more reason to not care about the super bowl.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well did anybody do anything about it, like, change the channel?

[–] sfbing@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

The mute button seemed to work just as well on AI ads as it does on normal ads.

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Is Will Smith selling spaghetti again?

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[–] borQue@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

super what? there's nothing super about it.

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[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The first stream I was using to watch it was from Canada, so I just mainly got patriotic Canadian ads, but that stopped and I ended up on one from Sky Sports. Since it was the UK, I got the bonus of no ads at all!

[–] mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

That pic looks like the female version of Kenneth Copeland.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 7 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Is it ads for AI or CGI with AI?

[–] SlinkyBlack@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

There were a lot of ads for AI companies and plenty of ads that also used AI to make their content, so both

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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

According to the article it was ads for AI companies. I didn't watch it but my guess is they were probably using AI to make the ads.

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[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

My roommates only watched it for the ads and their first comment was about all the AI crap. They were completely disappointed and disgusted by the whole Super Bowl, except for Bad Bunny.

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[–] schwim@piefed.zip 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It would take me a lot less time to be sick of football.

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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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