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“Ads are coming to AI”
What an absolutely terrifying statement. Advertising should be abolished.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Superb sense of reality, grandpa.
I want you to go search "Redbox near me" on Google. If you're in a major city there will be a bunch.
Also, I wasn't saying that people use DVDs. But, if I wasn't pirating I'd consider it over watching ads.
Didn't Redbox die like a year or 2 ago? The company went bankrupt and just abandoned all the machines and some people were strategically acquiring them.
I want you to go search "is Redbox still in business?"
They're still operating them mate. Doesn't matter if they're all universally owned.
But, holy shit, this wasn't even my point. It was about owning something! I used DVD to refer to owning physical media instead of watching a movie while paying for a subscription and watching ads at the same time.
Pirate your media, buy DVDs at thrift stores or Facebook marketplace, or whatever. That was my point. It's amazing to me that people pay for cable and pay for streaming services and still watch ads.
Holy shit the level of autism in you. I can't compete.
I'm autistic too, but I fall for this a lot trying to explain to other autistic people that don't understand. You are being an asshole when you take every sentence someone says literally. Especially, in the context of a completely different point someone is trying to make.
I said to rent a dvd. In the context of the post that is a suggestion to get media in different ways.
You can pirate shit, you can go to the library (some have HUGE selections for free), etc. That was the INTENTION of that sentence. A neuro typical person would understand this. Hell, most autistic people would understand this. But you sure are going on another level to purposely misunderstand the point of my comment.
I'm criticizing you because you were being condescending earlier. Now you're being ableist.
Dude. Your first reply was some age based condescending bull shit. You're really gonna play the ableist card at this point?
You can do it. You can admit you hyperfocused on one sentence, started with some condescending comment, and then kept doubling down.
I've given you so many opportunities to just say "yeah, I was nitpicking your comment".
I even reached out to you as clearly someone that is recognizing your own atypical brain in empathy. Like, it's just you and me reading these comments at this point mate. You can admit you started this is bad faith; and I can admit I took the bait.
No it wasn't, you're mistaking me for someone else.
Both advertising AND AI should be abolished.
I wish the general populace was educated enough to willfully ignore it, rather than legislate. This stuff should obviously die.
Generative AI should be abolished. Transformative AI and other machine learning technologies are genuinely useful and cool