I saw the band Chat Pile a while back in Los Angeles. They played the previous night in San Francisco — their singer mentioned the billboards and led the crowd in an ethusiastic chant of "F*k AI!".
The AI Billboards Are Killing SF
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Re: The AI Billboards Are Killing SF
#12I feel like SF has been full of frequently inscrutable billboards as long as I’ve been coming here — at least a decade. It’s maybe got slightly more extreme recently, with an even larger percentage of them being inscrutable to me as someone who both works in tech and has a decent grasp of current industry trends. I’ve never really got it — if even I don’t know what you’re advertising (or often, who is advertising!),…
I sort of look at it as putting a flag on the moon. Billboards are how tech companies claim ownership of SF and the tech sphere, any consumer influence is incidental.
Re: The AI Billboards Are Killing SF
#13I feel like SF has been full of frequently inscrutable billboards as long as I’ve been coming here — at least a decade. It’s maybe got slightly more extreme recently, with an even larger percentage of them being inscrutable to me as someone who both works in tech and has a decent grasp of current industry trends. I’ve never really got it — if even I don’t know what you’re advertising (or often, who is advertising!),…
More ego than practical.
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#14If you drive through Las Vegas, all the billboards are about casinos. If you drive through farm country, all the billboards are about the local cash crop.
Advertisers target the people likely to see the ad and spend money on the topic. Billboards are extremely geographically restricted, so local interest dominates. This isn't really news.
And yes, they are annoying.
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#15Advertising should be banned. It's an attack on the mind.
Re: The AI Billboards Are Killing SF
#16I saw the band Chat Pile a while back in Los Angeles. They played the previous night in San Francisco — their singer mentioned the billboards and led the crowd in an ethusiastic chant of "F*k AI!".
Great performers, great band
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#17Ads are influencing us to buy things we don't need! This is terrible!
[Billboards stop targeting you at all.]
Ads no longer influence us to buy things we don't need! This is terrible!
Just take the win.
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#18Advertising should be banned. It's an attack on the mind.
You can't in california, actually.
While you can generally restrict new ones, you can't eliminate existing ones without basically paying out the lost revenue+etc to whoever is running it.
Re: The AI Billboards Are Killing SF
#19I saw the band Chat Pile a while back in Los Angeles. They played the previous night in San Francisco — their singer mentioned the billboards and led the crowd in an ethusiastic chant of "F*k AI!".
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Re: The AI Billboards Are Killing SF
#20Advertising should be banned. It's an attack on the mind.
You can't in california, actually. While you can generally restrict new ones, you can't eliminate existing ones without basically paying out the lost revenue+etc to whoever is running it.
Ban new ones and that will naturally go extinct