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PaperclipPerfector  1yr ago (text post)   2819 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for April 14, 2023

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Google tagged everyone's photos in Google photos with their contents.

Did they? Checked the few photos I've uploaded, nah.

Google still can't even decide to show appropriate ads on youtube on my main profile. I've marked scammy dating site ads as 'irrelevant' about 5 times so far, it keeps doing it.

It's showing me ads for Replika chatbot. You'd think it'd figure out someone who hates seeing lingerie, dating site ads, rarely looks at thirsty content would not want to see that particular kind of ad, but no.

Eventually ad campaigns could be individualized

How's that going to account for people who hate ads to the point that they remember annoying ads and deliberately avoid products whose ads they've been shown ?

Google still can't even decide to show appropriate ads on youtube on my main profile. I've marked scammy dating site ads as 'irrelevant' about 5 times so far, it keeps doing it.

The quote "The future is already here. It's just unevenly distributed" seems relevant.

Maybe they'll show you ads for competitors, or content you enjoy with subtle product placement, like a cute dog with oreos in the background.

Did you try using the search function in the Google photos app?

content you enjoy with subtle product placement, like a cute dog with oreos in the background.

Facebook figured out I'm supposed to like beef jerky, which is quite impressive, so now I'm seeing ads for every single indigenous beef jerky company. While they're not as wrong as you with oreos.

Honestly it'd be scary if Facebook or google figured out I'm the kind of person who absolutely, totally loathes 'products' and only ever buys stuff that's a commodity. Am I going to overpay 300% for an energy drink just because it's branded ? Fuck no.

But what ad could they show me then ?

As to the tagging, I spent some time looking for tags in photos, but nothing. There used to be tags, then they deleted them, which made me stop using google photos.

Well, nothing groundbreaking tbh.

Still makes a lot of mistakes - for example, it tagged a photo of a Maxim heavy machinegun as a 'bike'.

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