Fuck AI

Having commercials as a tradition is peak capitalism.

Super Bowl commercials are a beloved tradition

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

Go Seagulls!

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.

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

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?

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

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

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"

I'm not American so I'm not very invested in the sport, I've never watched an event. But even I have watched some of the ads and half-time shows (in fact this is the second time I watched a half-time show, first time was Kendrick Lamar because I already knew I liked his music and he included his "Drake is a fucking pedo" song, which was a baller move on his part).

And even I know, you don't fuck with the superbowl ads. They have to be awesome, because that literally gets those people watching who don't even care about the sport. Fucking hell I've voluntarily watched the Doritos x Mountain Dew ad with Peter Dinklage and Morgan Freeman at least 20 times lol (at least the song part)

It costs so much money to get an ad spot there and you're guaranteed millions upon millions of views. Make it fucking count.

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.

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

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

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.

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

And you felt this was important enough to comment here to let all of us know?