For decades, when the horrors of advertising surface in the news, I’ve been dipping into the articles that commercial advertising people write for each other.

It’s such a weird alternate world these people have constructed. One where the concept of consent simply doesn’t exist; where the general public do absolutely nothing with their lives except exist within one “channel” or another; where the right to blast advertising at everyone is so fundamental it can’t even be seen, let alone questioned.

Not really a surprise. But my word, the edifices of thinking that have been piled atop these assumptions are mind-boggling in their fantasy.

Arent like the margin increases on targeted ads already pretty bad? I don’t think running expensive chatbots (which then can be messed with by the people you are trying to reach, driving up the costs even more) are going to really provide value for the advertisement world.

Some LWer wanted OpenAI to spam a warning about AI killing us all to every user of their app

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gJJ9YHzuBvwAXrthW/there-is-a-channel-to-900m-weekly-users-what-goes-in-it