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  • Fontasia@feddit.nlto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneAI Rule
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    8 days ago

    I’m not scared of AI advertising because it will be impossible to sell. There are 3 issues:

    1. No marketing agency would ever have the balls to say “we’ve checked our database and there is no one who would click on your ad.”
    2. Any marketing department that gets told their ad has a near 100% click through rate would demand to be shown to more people because “obviously there’s a massive audience for our product.”
    3. There would be situations where the AI could not find an ad that the person would click on and the AI would shit itself because it would be prompted to “always show an ad”

    We already could have the option to only relevant ads but no ad company would because it’s being paid to shove ads in front of eyeballs.
















  • There are plenty of better reasons to hate The Verge; reposting Press Releases as “news”, jumping on trends of public opinion, 12 minute video summaries of 30 minute events, staff who think Debian is some sort of anti allergy medication (this has gotten better, but there is still a little too much Tim Cook semen spitting at times.), “reporters” who have the job of reposting anything from Techmeme and techurls, the stench of Vox elitism, staff posting quote tweets as news and staff posting their purchase recommendation emails from Amazon (with affiliate links added) as “deals”.

    All that being said, it’s still leagues ahead of Gizmodo and I do think it’s worth reading.