That’s creepy as fuck and would guarantee I never buy that product.
DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026
Submitted 1 day ago by Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone to technology@lemmy.world
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Typhoon@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Literal nightmare fuel
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
Nope, nope and nope.
black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
Death to AI, death to capitalism
Bo7a@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
Death to allegra geller! Death to existenz!
LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
Long live the new flesh
chillpanzee@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
These remaining DirecTV subscribers are gonna be pissed when AT&T swaps out the dial-tone on their landline for an ad stream.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Most of them are probably boomers and will be dead soon, anyway
BD89@lemmy.sdf.org 7 hours ago
If it means they will finally stop fucking voting then good deal all around!
beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 17 hours ago
I can’t wait for this shit to become so pervasive that I only read paper books.
WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 11 hours ago
I hate what humanity chose to do with its “God given” gifts.
palordrolap@fedia.io 19 hours ago
Hahaha, that's not dystopian at all, hahahaha.
ieGod@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
TIL DirecTV is still around.
altphoto@lemmy.today 14 hours ago
OK so that’s the set we shouldn’t buy. OK noted.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Ok grandpa, turn off the DirectTV and power down your AM radio. Using a technology that old is guaranteed to land you deep in enshittification-land.
I’ve been watching Jellyfin for a while and I have not seen the first ad,
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Not my face. I‘m staying far away from those things. I wonder if generating personalized ads can even be profitable. Seems like a lot of effort to dish out some slop.
Nollij@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
It probably depends on how personalized the ads are. It should come as no surprise that targeted ads have been a thing as long as ads have existed. Coke ads during family shows, alcohol ads (you’ll be cool if you use our product) on MTV, etc.
There are already a number of algorithms to deliver one ad for a product over another, based on likely demographics. Streaming has greatly increased this, since specific demographic details are immediately and directly available when the ad is shown. I won’t get the same as on Hulu that you get.
As for generating ads on-the-fly, that seems unlikely. Few ads are fully generated at all, let alone in response to demographics or the specific viewer(s).
There are also risks when deploying ads without vetting. Some of these viewers will be dressed as Nazis, and will happily share the video to everyone.
muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 22 hours ago
Who the fuck are they getting your face?
dublet@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
DirecTV’s screensavers will let a user create an AI avatar of themself by scanning a QR code on the screensaver
You are expected to volunteer your face. And interact with the ads. Because you are getting this device to watch ads. Apparently.
Hule@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Bojack Horseman would look great as my face then.
PK2@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Challenge accepted!
Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive 😜.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Haha you probably think those things in your yard are birds
muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 16 hours ago
Makes sence that the birds aren’t working at the moment since the government is shutdown
beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 17 hours ago
They take pictures of you sleeping.
Grimy@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I have generated videos with me in then and it’s a very weird feeling. Actually getting surprised by then in an ad would be brutally unpleasant. They will never do this.
That being said, they will absolutely put people that reassemble us. So personalized ad with someone that has the same hair color, skin color, height, facial structure and age, wearing about the same kind of clothes we usually do.
Nollij@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
reassemble
I’m sure that was autocorrect, but it feels awfully portentous.
BD89@lemmy.sdf.org 7 hours ago
I surprised you think they will “never do this”. They will have some study done by an entity closely connected to an AI firm that affirms that “this makes products X amount more likely to sell!”
Whether it is true or not will be irrelevant. They will do it.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Probably run some GSA algorithm to make a version of you that could be a long-lost half-sibling you inexplicably want to fuck
Grimy@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
You say that as if it’s a bad thing
oh_@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Humanity could do many great things in this world with AI. Instead we are coming up with innovative new ways to give you ads. Get me out of this timeline.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
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oh_@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Now I have to go re watch old Futurama. Perfection.