Posts by cy80rg

Google wants to target you – yes, YOU – with AI-generated ads

Re: Oh I can't wait!

"public policy" is political, not an organic, realistic view of society.

Back in the 1950,s etc homosexuality was illegal for example.

If Google etc had existing back then, then these whole algorythms would have been "fudged" to reflect that, rather than the actual truth of the matter - as demonstrated by billions of unadulterated data points (users, commenst etc etc) .

Thats the risk / opportunity with AI - what its trained on...

Real world data, the truth as demonstrated by 98% of the population - or the "political agenda" of the day?

Re: Bring it

I agree - look on any "newspaper" website these days - and its full of every ad, banner, popup and flying blo*dy toaster you can think of, usually all at the same time!

What next "hit the monkey to win a free holiday"?

Really early 1990's advertising practices.

Advertisers dont want it - I sure as fook dont want it - I would much rather Google or whoever knew that I live in Scotland, like Man UNited football team and eat fooking KFC - to actually show me ads for somethiing id be intersted in (whats that - 10% off my next KFC? Thank you very much!).

And that, my friends, is what happens when you dont allow browsers, Google, anyone-with-any-intelligenmce, to learn what it is you might actually be intersted in...

But no, "Personal Information, maaaaan" - 'cos BBC...

And...?

"Oooh Google! Ooooh, Big Data!"

So, as a consumer - i'm shown ads for things I may actually be interested in, based on things Ive actively shown an interest in in the past, and I'm taken to what is increasingly likely to be a good place for me to achieve what Im actually wanting to do?

My GOD! The horror!

Funnilty enough - and a lot of you pseudo-geeks on here - lets face it, most of your arent - might not get this bit...

Advertisers dont want to pay for advertising to people who arent interested in what tey sell

Customers dont wont to see ads for things their not interested in

Web servers and content etc that we all use and love (if not, why arr you looking at it?) need to be paid for

Websites and creators make money by providing a service or product that we as a customer value

I dont see an issue with any of that?

Now - GDPR and main stream media, where most of you on this rag of a site seem to get their "geek cool" credintionals from...

BBC and the press had 100% market share for decades - there was no other way of reaching a mass market

What you saw, what you didnt, what you know, what you dont...

Now, alomng comes Google and the internet...

Sh1t! People can now think for themselves, post what they want without a "Board" of 12 people - who of course have no agenda - deciding what that must be.

Market share - down

Control - down

Viewers - down

revenue - down

Now GDPR - a "law" created by a failing State purely to gernerate revenue from "Big Tech" as revenue from actual positive activities from the EU dries up - there never have been any.

To bolster that failing "control" weilded by the media, to control and stop you and I - the people - from actually engaging with each other, withouit the blinkers of "policy" and "agenda".

Now - why might the mainstream media, EU and "GDPR" have an isseue with that?

Jesus - wake up people.

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