DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026
DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026

DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026

DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026
DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026
Ah yes, that’s what will get me to engage with ads all they needed to do was put my face in them.
Business majors are so fucking stupid.
Ads are much more likely to be effective on me if they have attractive people in them.
I was taught none of that during my undergrad. Instead, i say that people who are greedy just happened to get business degrees as a tool to help them be greedy.
This is going to be an absolute nightmare for schizophrenics.
Imagine someone gets back at their ex and puts a dispenser with LSD in it programmed to dispense a bit every like 15 liters poured out of their Samsung Fridge... Which will probably also play adds with your face on it.
was....was this you?
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.
That's creepy as fuck and would guarantee I never buy that product.
Who in their right mind would think this is a good idea? Are managers so caught up in the "just add AI bro it will make us cool" hype train that no one stops to think "yeah I would never want this in my living room"?
they know what they're doing, they're just disgusting humanoids.
How long before someone uses this feature to create a feature length porno?
So, ah ... yeah.
I can't wait for this shit to become so pervasive that I only read paper books.
Paper books and comparable are now prohibited under the konzom act, your daily advertisement quota has been increased until morale improves or your mind breaks, whichever comes first.
Nope, nope and nope.
Seems like a real can / should problem to me.
Hard to believe this would entice anyone to purchase where a sexy lady couldn't.
looking pretty gay in that pullover hoodie. thats why you need a bearskin hoodie that makes you look like a real man.
These remaining DirecTV subscribers are gonna be pissed when AT&T swaps out the dial-tone on their landline for an ad stream.
does at&t still own direc tv?
I don't know. Maybe not. Last I worked with them they were still Hughes, but the ATT acquisition had been announced.
Fun story... it once took a bit over an hour to get from their building on Imperial Hwy to the passenger terminal at LAX, and you can see LAX out the uber window on the other side of the street the entire ride. Lol.
Literal nightmare fuel
Hahaha, that's not dystopian at all, hahahaha.
I hate what humanity chose to do with its "God given" gifts.
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.
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.
Its like that one Black Ops 2 mission
Salazar: We're all going to hell, man.
I’m so glad someone on this platform got that reference
I'm fed up with the streaming services, so I'm getting back to my big pile of DVDs and Blu-Ray discs.
I was randomly reminded of the "BD-Live" thing that I tried long ago. One of the most janky joyless things I had ever seen. Some marketing person had decided to do a marketing thing for movie promos and trailers and had forgotten that the thing was to be visited by actual people.
This sounds like it was cooked up by the same people. Looks like marketing people building a Thing.
TIL DirecTV is still around.
I haven't heard DirecTV mentioned in such a long time, I'm a little surprised it still exists
nope
I have generated videos with me in them and it's a very weird feeling. Actually getting surprised by them 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.
reassemble
I'm sure that was autocorrect, but it feels awfully portentous.
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.
Probably run some GSA algorithm to make a version of you that could be a long-lost half-sibling you inexplicably want to fuck
You say that as if it's a bad thing
Maan, I‘d rather have proper self lacing shoes. This version of the future sucks.