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Imagine if it could replace the ads with pictures of your family, news, inspirational quotes…


Imagine if (when ?) the AI chip in each TV in the near future could smartmix© ads with pictures of your family, news, inspirational quotes...


Even better, product placement.

Your 5 year old is now magically holding BrandNewKoolAid™ instead of the original Coke. You grandpa has a fishing rod from BobsFishingEquipment®.


Oh god - there's the recent posts I've seen about people losing their social media accounts and then having deepfakes of themselves posting about BTC.

But what happens when the platforms get into it themselves?

Today using a loved one's image in a deepfake advertisement might seem invasive and wrong. But I wonder in the future if this would be seen as something acceptable. I'm sure somewhere there's a social media site that is carefully constructing their T&C's to allow them to do this if they so wish.


On the other hand, I think one protection against this particular scenario are the people who make their money using their likeness. Like, what if in that particular situation, Taylor Swift's dad (pick any celebrity) was the one browsing the internet. He just got served an advertisement with not just his daughter's face on it, but an ad with Taylor Swift's unlicensed likeness, where that likeness in most other situations is worth many millions of dollars.

For some tiny group that's below-board anyway with hacking people's social media accounts, I guess maybe there's not much you could do. But for any social media site or other platform, I imagine that IP lawyers trying to protect their client's likeness would descend in packs, which is a probably a genuine deterrent to a group considering implementing something like this.


You are definitely going to be proven right.


You don't need AI, just social media and reviews. It's been tried. Crazy effective but also feels creepy despite it just being a way to surface reviews and ratings from people you know on FB or Google+.


With pihole you could. Have the ad domains pointed to your own webserver that served you such things.


Get one into your neighborhood switch; and show your own ads to everyone. Local advertisers desperately want someone to hand their money to.


I don't know who you are, I can't prove to you I am real, but I love you. Have a nice day, and please, down vote this, I was doing so good being invisible until Someone upvoted me to a 1 again...




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