• PaX [comrade/them, they/them]
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    5 months ago

    Ad content recognition system maybe - if you see an ad, click a button and it goes into a database or if your browser sees an ad in the database it skips it

    Even if it can't be skipped I would prefer the stream be blacked out and muted rather than be subjected to psychological warfare

    • tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them]
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      5 months ago

      I would prefer the stream be blacked out and muted rather than be subjected to psychological warfare

      I genuinely feel psychological distress from YouTube ads, wish I could sue for damages.

    • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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      5 months ago

      ok, i think that's probably the only kind of thing that could do it at all. that sort of user-reported database is how some ad skippers already work. agreed on preferring nothing to psychological warfare.

      i look forward to the bizarro-world arms race where google gets more and more sophisticated techniques to make 100000 unrecognizably different versions of the same dog food commercial that the databases won't be able to recognize.

      • Tom742 [any]
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        5 months ago

        100000 unrecognizably different versions of the same dog food commercial that the databases won't be able to recognize

        Sounds like a potential task for some generative algorithm

        • Saeculum [he/him, comrade/them]
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          5 months ago

          AGI will spawn out of adversarial networks for ad recognition and disguise, calling it now.

          This is also why it will hate us.