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[–] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 156 points 1 month ago (3 children)

it's refreshing that i've seen exactly one post about the sportsball game, and it's not even about the sportsball, but about how people are sick of shit to do with advertising

[–] Maiq@piefed.social 63 points 1 month ago

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

[–] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] hector@lemmy.today 7 points 1 month ago

I'm just glad they beat the New England Pedants. Or is it the New England Pedophiles, that would make more sense considering.

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[–] BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 109 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It felt like half the ads were either fully AI generated, used AI slop or were for an AI slop factory company. It turned the game tonight into "which ads aren't AI slop" for me.

I cannot fucking wait for this bubble to burst

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 49 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 20 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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

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[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 82 points 1 month ago (2 children)

“Ads are coming to AI”

What an absolutely terrifying statement. Advertising should be abolished.

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 month ago (12 children)

I abolished it almost entirely from my life since I was about 10 years old. Have spent most of my media consumption on the internet with adblock. I honestly think it made me smarter. Not, in like a book smart way. But just having a better sense of reality.

The Superbowl is one of the only times I see ads every year. It just shocks me. Not that "ads work on people" but that people don't just go read a book or rent a dvd instead. Like, they are so fucking awful and ruin any watching experience.

Its amazing that there is a large portion of the population that literally spends 10%-20% of their media time watch ads.

[–] tynansdtm@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I enabled an ad blocking VPN on my wife's phone but it interfered with a streaming app so she disabled it. Sometimes she asks me to check her phone for the next step in a recipe or something, and the webpage has an ad at the top and at the bottom and the display is two thirds advertisement but she just says "it doesn't bother me." I don't understand how people live like this.

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago

I can kinda get that. I probably see more ads than I think I do. Self adblock from your brain.

I don't know if it's my spectrum brain or if this happens to other people. But I realized that I have literally mistlenly trained my brain to ignore REALLY OBVIOUS warning signs because they basically are designed the same as ads.

I'm the idiot trying to figure out why something isn't working with the big sign next to me telling me why.

Small tiny text sign in black on white. Well, that looks important. I'll read that. Big red bold and underlined sign. Can't fucking see it.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I use several different types of ad blocker for my phone and computer, and all of my television is done through a series of ad free ways that were kind of a pain to learn and manage, but are all free.

I get physically angry when I see ads. It is insane to me that people so willingly let that stuff be shit into their brains constantly.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago

I FINALLY convinced my wife to use Firefox with uBlock on their phone. We had a YouTube Premium trial for something (I think so we could play some vids at a party without ads) and they loved not seeing the ads. I kept telling them "you know, if you use Firefox in your phone with the uBlock extension to watch YouTube instead of the YouTube app you just won't get any ads, right? Also it can play videos while the phone is locked." This finally convinced them to try it for their podcasts.

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[–] BigTechMustBurn@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Both advertising AND AI should be abolished.

[–] Coldcell@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

I wish the general populace was educated enough to willfully ignore it, rather than legislate. This stuff should obviously die.

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[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 71 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

The funniest thing about this is that using AI slop for Superbowl ads is actually peak capitalism. The cost of the ad space itself dwarfs the cost for producing the ads, with AI or not. But the worthless MBAs driving this just can't help themselves.

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[–] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 68 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It really reminded me of the Super Bowl back in 2000 when all the ads were for websites, which was right before the "Dot Com" bubble burst...

[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fuck celebrities. When did they become so money hungry and do ads for anything. Kevin Hart is the worst he'll do an ad for anything.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 63 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I suppose it's heartening that the more we're forced to see AI slop, the more people seem to hate it.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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?

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

potential customers know how to make the same thing

This is 100% why I stay away from it. LLM's are just a incremental race to the middle, to the generic. Who wants their work product to be exactly the same as everyone else's?

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also the Olympics had AI generated clips in their opening ceremony, Pandora’s box has been opened unfortunately.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

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"

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 month ago (7 children)

This ad was insultingly bad. It was bad AI and not funny?

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9zitc6

[–] flowers_galore2@lemmynsfw.com 15 points 1 month ago

Ugh what was that

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[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The bowl I smoked in my garage was more super than that game

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 24 points 1 month ago (10 children)

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

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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It was horrible. Next year im doing my original plan and going skiing. Best ski day because it’s empty. Way better use of my time

[–] gdog05@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 1 month ago

There were may many ai ads and they were fucking awful

[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 month ago

So fucking many. When you heard they spent billions and billions on AI I didn't know it was all for Super Bowl commercials

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Watched on my DVR over an hour after the game started so I could fast forward through all the ads.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

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

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Isn't that the same every year though? You've got all the dumbest, drunkest eyeballs watching, time to roll out the biggest scams.

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[–] chillpanzee@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I'm more sick of the same 5 celebrities shilling every goddam thing under the sun. Damon, McConaghey, Woody Harrelson, Affleck, I'll take shitty AI over shitty celeb endorsements every time.

That aside... that Beast Mode 'gettin ya lick back' ad at the end dope as shit. I don't even know what they were advertising, but it was one of the highlights of the whole show.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hold on... What if those 5 celebrities have been AI this whole time...? 🤔

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Has anyone ever seen them and an AI data center in the same room?

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[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago

As if I needed more reason to not care about the super bowl.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well did anybody do anything about it, like, change the channel?

[–] sfbing@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

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

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is Will Smith selling spaghetti again?

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[–] borQue@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

super what? there's nothing super about it.

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[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The first stream I was using to watch it was from Canada, so I just mainly got patriotic Canadian ads, but that stopped and I ended up on one from Sky Sports. Since it was the UK, I got the bonus of no ads at all!

[–] mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

That pic looks like the female version of Kenneth Copeland.

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