IMO they will not ever make ads with your family’s faces because it will turn people off. Instead, they will make a fake AI family just like your family that you can relate to but won’t realize is actually supposed to be you. That is what they do now with their targeted demos but there’s only so many ads you can make the traditional way. AI will enable making hundreds of variations of the same ad.
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However, there have been reports of Facebook showing that your friends have liked posts and pages, when the people deny having liked them.
They've been doing that for years. I've audited my own "likes" for years and found a bunch of BS. And we roasted one of our friends for years because he "liked" Miller Lite.
Yep, I think that's the real terror of it, is that the line between ad and content will blur even further. There's already everything ranging from astroturfing to paid endorsements, but eventually AI maybe can get good at finding that line of what you think is trustworthy and crossing it maliciously.
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."
Just give AI your credit card bro.
Is it only me that finds personalised / targeted ads to be very poorly personalised and targeted ?
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?
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.
One of the reasons I went all out in blocking ads was because they were already doing this over a decade ago with stuff with text based on your location or search history. Hit singles in your area listed your city for example.
So yeah, obviously they were going to keep going down that route with AI.
Well that’s repulsive in the extreme
So more ads for me to ignore. Got it
At least they are not changing skin colour or ethnicity yet.
Sorry what?
I think I've misunderstood you because this is certainly possible, and I'm sure you're aware of that.
I've downloaded and ran some image models locally to restore old damaged family photos. I have accidentally changed my family to almost every race while learning how to prompt it correctly lol
How accurate is it? I'd be afraid of it generating likely-looking people that don't actually look like the real person.
Just wait. There’s so much that could be done with AI.
You could even include visual cues for every demographic, like hobbies, occupations, country of origin and so on. If the ad has a picture of an object relevant to your life, it will probably have absolutely nothing to do with the product they’re pushing.
If you didn’t hate ads already, the future will probably make you want to throw a molotov cocktail at the front door of the ad company.
"There's nothing like a sea of white"
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.
Mass ads (TV)
Personalized ads (Internet)
Psychological ads (AI)
I'd imagine that could get wild for people with schizophrenia.
Like those scenes in Minority Report. The world in the movie was rather dystopian.
Gross
Also zucc deserves absolutely terrible things
At the very least, he deserves several decades as a junior janitor in the Bhasan Char refugee camp (with full asset seizure) for his contribution to the Rohingya genocide. A similar rehabilitation approach should be applied to multiple other Meta executives as well and the whole board of Meta.
And when I say "asset seizure", I mean every last cent, with all family members and business partners being forced to sign affidavits agreeing that should any assets be found and there is reason to believe they were involved, they'll have to partake in the same rehabilitation program as Zuckerberg (including affidavits for their family members and business).
It's a scalable and efficient approach to justice.
lol jokes on them, I don’t look at ads.
Oh, fuck.
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.
TicketScalper doing shitty things for profit? Nah, couldn’t be.

