They don’t need AI for this.
I recall that at least one website was having a transparent object follow the cursor around with a link to an ad in the invisible window. No matter where you clicked, ad.
Why waste all the electricity on trying to predict it, when you can get the same effect by simply snapping the ad link right to the cursor in a transparent window.
Don’t worry, that’s what the developer did. They just convinced their boss it’s AI to keep their job
So we determined that 95% is the sweet spot (in which the revenue from maximum advertising, is worth more than the lost customers due to death.
Could be worse. See: Blipverts.
I feel like I’m being told something. . .
Heh what’s this from
Also from: The Diamond Age (1995) by Neal Stephenson:
You could get a phantascopic system planted directly on your retinas, just as Bud’s sound system lived on his eardrums. You could even get teleasthetics patched into your spinal column at various key vertebrae. But this was said to have its drawbacks: some concerns about long-term nerve damage, plus it was rumored that hackers for big media companies had figured out a way to get through the defenses that were built into such systems, and run junk advertisements in your peripheral vision (or even spang in the fucking middle) all the time - even when your eyes were closed. Bud knew a guy like that who’d somehow gotten infected with a meme that ran advertisements for roach motels, in Hindi, super-imposed on the bottom right-hand corner of his visual field, twenty-four hours a day, until the guy whacked himself.
Ooo! Cyberpunk I’ve never heard of. Gotta read that.
Also check out Snow Crash which is considered one of the seminal works of cyberpunk. Same author, Neal Stephenson, and set in the same world though they’re set about a century apart and are only very loosely linked.
Ready Player One. Excellent movie!
If by excellent, you mean nostalgia bait then sure
To be fair, the same can be said of the book it is based on
“Defrauding advertisers while annoying users is the next big thing, which will surely not bite us in the ass long term”
Undefined term - “long term”. Management doesn’t know what that is.
Nah, just get personal PR managers for the involved people, let the company fail and make sure to move on before that.
The decision makes are exempt from consequences.
Right up there with the UI that shifts right when you’re going to tap/click on the thing you’re interested in and instead an ad or other feature is inserted and off you go.
Hmm… Watch an ad in order to post a comment.
Drink verification can!
Reading that made me want to slap you.
Glad i was on topic then.
I did this a long time ago. Instead of trigger on mouse up, I triggered a popup on mouse down then just loaded the page I wanted. It didn’t actually do what it looked like it was doing, but the effect was infuriating.
Maybe they should have invested in AI technology that can tell with 95% accuracy when somebody is about to hit them in the head with a baseball bat.
So it’s just the number 95% . . . Cause I know I’m batting a 1000 on this idea 🏏.
Don’t give them ideas.
anti-assistive tech.
