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And again, people should be informed if they dont want to buy slop that was written by ChatGPT.

My Johto display almost complete, just missing Janine.

I'd be willing to bet that 99% of dev's using AI are going to use it for art first, not "hey ChatGPT, fill in some dialog here"

If AI existed in the 80's

They should probably make the definition clearer or lay out standards for it, "Made by AI" is really vague and, like you said, everything will end up using it in some capacity.

I'd have no problem with AI being used for things like analyzing large data sets, procedural stuff like testing/qa/etc, testing for spelling/grammar/translation errors, or non-creative/artistic things. I take more issue with art, music, story, etc being directed by it. I expect most are the same, but at what point does doing this cross over from using AI to "Made with AI"?

I doubt they'll get super granular with it, but they should probably change it to be clearer and outline whatever their standard is for determining it. "Uses AI Generated Content" is probably closer to what they should be aiming for.

If creating it didn't take several times longer than consuming it chances are it's not worth to be consumed in the first place.

Also I wouldn't count rephrasing prompts til AI spits something out that "fits" as time spent creating.


Apparently cola rendered around 70k AI videos till they got something they considered good enough for their advertisement.
The good enough advertisement:I remember someone commenting how anal large companies can be even just for minor errors like the kerning of a single letter being slightly off but then consider this adequate...

I prefer this version:

That Coke ad is something else. Who watches an ad for Coke like that and thinks: "I wanna drink sugary piss water"?

Then again, here we are, talking about it and I never talk about Coke, so they clearly got their objective.

AI afaik hasn't been used for video advertisements, at least not by such big companies. Of course it works in the attention seeking department because it has the novelty of being new and AI being controversial, it was to be expected that this would provoke outrage or malice and therefore increase their reach. The thing is coke doesn't need that kind of attention to increase their reach, everyone already knows that brand.

The question is are only advertisement professionals repelled by this or are the consumers, too. We'll see if this was just a single stunt or if this becomes the new standard next year.

My gym just rose their price over 70 dollars. Amazon is removing no interest financing, what else is next a netflix price hike? How can they keep doing this over and over, and then tariffs on literally everything you buy. Its not been this bad in a long time.

More like ever? It's never been this bad.

Caffeinated sugary piss water. Sugar alone isn't addictive enough.

Right now its new and in the news. That's why Coke did it. How many ooo... AI! news articles, posts, blogs, etc. have you seen about the Coke commercial? How many times have you seen the Coke commercial?

Once AI adds are commonplace the only decision will be cost per eyeball.

How can they keep doing this over and over? Its EASY! It would be easy even if every form of consumer protection hadn't been drowned in a bathtub. Just raise the prices on everything and blame someone or something else.

As for netflix, there will be more tiers with commercials and more expensive commercial free tiers.

Does the great recession count in that long time? No one could afford anything and prices STILL rose. Not as fast as this year but IMHO you have to factor unemployment in.

I don't work in advertising. I have friends that do and they are repulsed by it, but it's also somewhat of an existential threat for them because it's their job. I have other friends who own marketing businesses (for content/media creation) that expect within 2 years they'll be out of business entirely. I'm indifferent to it, because I don't read an ad and go buy something, I read an ad, go look into it more, ask around, then go buy it if it's anything of consequence. I'm more annoyed at the proliferation of "reviews" that are paid for and make it impossible to find if something is worth a ***or not.

Marketing and advertising is one of those areas AI has a real potential to be mega impactful to the industry in a way that actually functions. For ads/commercials, if you can generate an ad that plants a seed of thought on a subject into a consumers mind, which then drives them to other media (website, influencers, etc) then it did the job. AI can do this and I don't think most people will care or even know (how many times do you see AI generated content on FB treated like it is real?). You can then use AI to generate web content at a much more rapid pace to meet things like keywords, referrers, etc. It still takes someone to polish it but the content generation is a lot cheaper.

It won't replace all the fake "reviews" online. You'll still have talking heads who are paid to "review" products that don't understand anything and only "review" it because they are paid to, but it'll drive more traffic to them when people see an AI generated ad then go look for their dumb opinion on it

The part that's baffling is before AI perfection was barely good enough. Now with AI subpar suddenly became perfectly acceptable?

Sure AI might be cheaper right now but big tech is known for ramping up pricing once the monopoly is established.

I think that's the case for most people. Advertising can only do so much, at some point the product has to lift it's weight.
However if the advertisement put the brand/product on ones radar when it previously wasn't it did it's job.

I agree on the payed reviews but I think that isn't legal unless it's clearly communicated that they've got sponsored.

This is why there needs to be transparency of the usage of AI.

Its not that subpar slop is acceptable, its the people putting out subpar slop want to save money and are deeming the subpar slop as acceptable to put out.

Consumers vote with their wallet and need to be sufficiently informed. A lack of information will lead to assumptions and subsequent distrust.

Moving goalposts?

I mean we never had perfection. AI got better over time and now that it can get the number of fingers right its uses have expanded.

There is also the WOW! look at what AI can do now! factor.

What ever we had it was a lot closer to perfection than what AI delivers.

I don't know about others but for me the wow effect is long gone and annoyance is taking over.

Lately I find myself clicking thru multiple pages because half the front page of search engine results are AI generated and often they drag out the point only to not answer the question at all.


I didn't know I had a goalpost either.

We might be heading for that tbh, I'm seeing some scary things going on with a lot of different markets and peoples spending habits. It's going to reach a bursting point soon I would think.

https://x.com/Andy_VGC/status/1995914769614635323

inb4: REEEEE TWITTER LINKS I DONT DO TWITTER LINKS
Well its the only place I have this video

Anyways, this video only made me more concerned that the new Metroid Prime game is gonna be absolutely *** mid.

Doesn't really fit the gritty semi-horror attitude of Prime, but I don't think it's a game ruiner to show people having personality. Makes sense that Samus would be a legend to people of her universe by now. Am I missing something?

Probably not.

Galactic federation solder is a quirk chungus who fangirls infront of Samus infront of her superior officer while on deployment.

Art reflects culture. It's a strange choice, but it's hardly enough to assume the game is ruined. Now, if the entire game is full of references intended for millenial man-children.. then yea, it's not great. I love Metroid; I'll suspend skepticism until there's evidence it's a game-wide issue.