Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026

MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Limonene@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Rejecting Netflix fixes things for you and me, but the article says Netflix has 93 million ad-supported subscribers. I’m really worried about the amount of influence advertisers have on our society, and it’s only getting worse. Even if you and I can be above the direct influence of these ads, many people are not, and those people are influencing you and me. This produces a dangerous secondary influence that can reach most of society, and just fills everyone’s mind with lies, for hardly any cost.

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  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Eh, people are dumb as bricks. If it’s not ads it’s some fake news, social media nonsense, ai bullshit. It’s really pointless to worry about. You can either accept that you are sharing the planet with Trump voters and suckers who fell for NFTs or you will just go crazy.

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  • kalpol@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No different than the decades of ad supported broadcast television.

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    • RightEdofer@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Terrible argument. You can’t ignore scale. Algorithmic timelines increase efficacy and precision of ads tremendously. These platforms know exactly who to target with what ad, at what time, with what frequency to get the desired result. It’s like comparing a horse and buggy to a sports car.

      Generative ads will be even worse because they can be made specifically to each individual.

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      • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yes, that bit is terrifying

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      • kalpol@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh im not defending it. Just saying we’ve been well-fed geese for a very long time now. It has just changed from cramming us full of the Tootsie Pop Owl and the Doublemint Twins with a chaser of Sears Christmas Catalog to a succotash of targeted ads.

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    • LordCrom@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Except I didn’t pay a monthly fee for over the air TV. The Jeffersons didn’t cost 4.99 a month

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      • kalpol@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah this part is truly infuriating

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• trum_pam_pam@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  YoHoHo Arrrrghhhhhh!!!

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• samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They will. We just won’t see them when we watch their shows.

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