• RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world
    28·
    11 months ago

    Reminds me of Futurama, “we all have commercials in our dreams” scene.

    Leela: Didn’t you have ad’s in the 20th century?

    Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!

    • frezik@midwest.social
      4·
      11 months ago

      He’s also made some damn insightful comments over the years. I wish a little less insightful in this case. He had a programming background and usually isn’t full of shit.

      “The Merchant Prince’s” series is deep into pre-Great Recession liberal economics, but still a pretty good read.

      • trolololol@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 months ago

        I’m not that great at English, what’s the grammar on"merchant Prince’s"?

        Is this a prince that’s also a merchant?

        Is this a merchant that works or is associated with a prince?

        Is it a typo and is supposed to read princess?

        • frezik@midwest.social
          1·
          11 months ago

          Yeah, it’s not totally obvious. It’s an old phrase and I’ve never really liked it. A similar one is “trader prince”, which is pronounced a lot like “traitor prince”, which of course means something totally different.

          Anyway, it’s usually a prince that’s also a merchant. Historically, it refers to merchants who aren’t really princes or even any kind of nobility, but they get rich as fuck by trading across the kingdom. In the case above, the story focuses on a family that wasn’t originally noble, but got there after a very peculiar trade monopoly.

        • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
          1·
          11 months ago

          Haha, lul, that title did seem to stand out a bit from the other ones, but I didn’t read the des.

          I might start with Index, Codex, or Saturn - but I’ve intentionally skipped reading the synopsis (not as a spoiler, I’m indifferent to those, just as adhd management to ‘start the thing’ - by keeping the info simple it might seem like an easier pick for my brainhole to chose & allow me to perform the activity, and I feel like I don’t need to do much more research on the author or specific books).

  • Fontasia@feddit.nl
    92·
    11 months 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.

    • Acters@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 months ago

      I might have read the post from mastodon wrong, but I thought it was hinting at how it would use ai models to bypass restrictions by utilizing these models to change the ad to be undetectable by blockers. Not strictly for personalization

  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
    81·
    11 months ago

    If you put it on my computer then I control it.

    Oh look. AI task killer 4 found another one.

    • emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de
      9·
      11 months ago

      Literally if my “ai based adblocker” could block ads originating from another server, why wouldnt it be able to block hundreds of gigabytes of javascript? Why would i even let that download in the first place?

      • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        41·
        11 months ago

        In order to avoid detection we might need to download the JS, run it in a sandbox, and then reply with a plausible response.

  • einlander@lemmy.world
    6·
    11 months ago

    People are forgetting that Microsoft has now added ai accelerators as part of the windows requirements and the new Google Pixel phones also have AI hardware. Eventually someone will make it so all chromium browsers will have access to the hardware in JavaScript.

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      …,And Cloudflare will request using it for 5 seconds every time you visit a website hosted with them. I wonder how much crypto they’ve accumulated this way already.

  • Baalial@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    11 months ago

    I will 100% quit using electrically powered screen-besring devices if this becomes a thing. I’ll cold turkey electronic tech instantly, fuck that noise.

      • Baalial@lemm.eeEnglish
        0·
        11 months ago

        It takes prep, and also, you’re probably not going to truly “cold turkey.” I like music, for instance, and there’s literally only two ways to get music now - streaming or 🏴‍☠️, so you would have to make plans for that. I’m ok with 🏴‍☠️ so I’d be set with that for a good while. I also like books, retro games (which I already have a large library of), and physical hobbies that don’t require internet - hiking, etc.

        I will not just lay down and accept intrusive Idiocracy levels of ads though. I will literally “cave man” the rest of life if necessary.

          • Baalial@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            Do modern bands still print CDs? I haven’t bought a CD in so long that I dont think I even own one anymore. I have bought directly from several bands “bandcamp”/other pages and that was cool. Got mp3, FLAC, artworks, lyrics, etc for less than the price of a CD except every penny went to the band.

            I love modern tech and don’t want to see it destroyed but I will gladly go insane like a mountain man if they try to find out how many ads they can serve before it causes siezures.

            • Rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              11 months ago

              Oh actually you know what you’re probably right 😬 I know modern bands do records still, but I think the last CD I bought was Tranquility Base in like 2016. Bandcamp is great!

              I’m totally on board with you. I hate ads, especially when they interrupt music – and double especially when they interrupt music and the ad has its own music that completely shits up the mood!

  • Ekky@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    4·
    11 months ago

    Who else is excited for Rootkit “anticheat/DRM” requirements for web browsers? We all already give games full system access, so why not do the same for cookies?

    • Baalial@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Another thing that’ll have me just quitting tech altogether. If you need to advertise your product so hard as to ruin something of mine at all times so I’ll HAVE to look at your shit, I’ll spend extra money to never use your shit again. I’ll get rid of everything but one laptop or phone which will do all of my banking and literally nothing else.

  • Clbull@lemmy.world
    3·
    11 months ago

    On the plus side, the sheer power consumption of using an LLM to dish out targeted advertisements will be prohibitively expensive. Any agency stupid enough to do this with current technology is gonna go bust.

    As for hosting the LLM locally on the viewer’s machine… Remember the furore of shady companies burying crypto miners into their software? This is going to be even more wasteful of system resources and is going to result in such a sluggish user experience that the industry will go bankrupt.

    • borth@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      11 months ago

      Then Alphabet will come up with a new bullshit idea, “remove the limits for ‘trusted’ advertisers” so that they can inject more code than allowed as long as they keep paying for their ad “partnership”

    • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      I really hope you don’t know about this 4GB limit specifically because you’ve run up against it while doing anything real-world.

        • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          11 months ago

          I’ve made exactly two projects that utilized canvas, both of which I “released” in a sense. One contains 248kb of JS code and the other contains 246kb. That’s before it’s minified.

          So I guess that means I did my canvas code right. Lol.

          (Unless you meant 3d canvas or WebGL stuff with which I haven’t played.)

    • sysop@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 months ago

      It would just slowly accumulate it over time, little bit here, little bit there until it has a fleet of stuff to serve you in a queue, so while you’re making more and more bits for more videos, it’s serving you videos while you make bits of new videos and sharing them over websockets that JS CDNS force-feed our browsers to centralized servers to offload similar users with similar ad-tastes to also help compile.

      Some shit like that. Adtech is cyber terrorism. Never forget.