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Why does my treadmill want my email address? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

This reads like a cyberpunk vignette; I enjoyed it. Thank you. I've started to take note when something decidedly cyberpunk happens in day-to-day life. I make a lot of notes.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I could increase the cyberpunk feeling by turning the TVs off with a flipper zero. I haven't felt the need to yet but it's always an option.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Remember when phones had ir transmitters

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I was so jealous of my dad's HTC one, haha.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

that's the direction we all need to be moving, if we're going to survive/avert the water wars.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

That's an idea...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Extrapolating a bit, here are the next steps

screens in places where people might look at an ad will all have built in image recognition and eye-tracking.
an algorithm/model will calculate the number of people within view and an acceptable level of eyes on screen per minute (or some other time increment tbd by an industry leading marketing psychologist) depending on the task they are doing.
the algorithm/model can also calculate the local demographic
the short format video content can be easily tweaked to improve engagement. If the racing crash clips aren't generating enough engagement, then it can try indoor cat clips.
when the eye to screen levels are at or above minimum advertising levels, display an ad that would best match the target demographic that the advertiser set. The ad contents will also match the actions of the local population.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Certainly. Having worked in advertising for 25 years, that's probably just phase one. Those short videos will eventually be different for each person seeing the screen... and largely A.I. generated with few humans in the loop. In the flip side, people will probably be able to program their smart glasses to hide all that shit. It's an arms race over our attention already. See: Trudell's "mined mind." Or Bo Burnham, for that matter.