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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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[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 day 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 22 hours 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??"

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

If company A has an ad that's a good target and pays $20 and company B has an ad that's a bad target but pays $100, which one are they going to show you?

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 hours ago

Not sure what youre getting at.

Obviously it depends how good and how bad.

Also, there going to show both - but the frequency of each will depend on their assessed likelihood that im going to click and the revenue generated if I do so.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 3 points 20 hours ago

Yes. Because targeted advertising is just selling something in it’s self. It was always a scam, but the mark os businesses that buy into the idea.