Lots of startups are launching in this space. Creating ad copy and assets is obviously a hot idea.
I would love to hear what people’s takes on the market dynamics are, especially if any of the YC founders working in this space see this!
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#62This is depressing. We are already meat in the google ad-serving machine that tracks us, profiles us, gives us "free" stuff (gmail, anyone?) in order to feed us advertising. Now even that advertising will be AI-generated. The human is reduced to the ultimate consumption machine, to be fed stuff paid for by advertisers and generated by machines.
> The human is reduced to the ultimate consumption machine. Question is, if the AI bros are right about a "new industrial revolution", will there be consumers to consume if all the wealth is concentrated in the top 1-2% of the population? (the owners of AI hardware and software)
I keep seeing this worry about "who will consume?!!?" This is entirely unfounded - the AI will develop its own marketplace and AI will consume.
The question is, will be there anything left for humans to consume ? will we survive ?
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#63This is depressing. We are already meat in the google ad-serving machine that tracks us, profiles us, gives us "free" stuff (gmail, anyone?) in order to feed us advertising. Now even that advertising will be AI-generated. The human is reduced to the ultimate consumption machine, to be fed stuff paid for by advertisers and generated by machines.
Personally I'm okay with that as it weakens the argument that ads are content, a dubious argument often used by ad companies.
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#64Suspicious-me is wondering how Google are going to treat AI generated marketing slop created using Pomelli differently to slop created with other tools (or even human created marketing content) in search ranking? If I were an EvilGoogle manager, I'd have an enshittification playbook complete with a timeline and KPIs/OKRs mapped out - and probably already linked to individual engineer's promotion/RIF futures. They kno…
Google actually doesn't give a single flying fuck about AI slop because they produce it themselves and believe AI slop will feed their quarters going forward. They sometimes pretend to care but not really. You can already stuff Google Merchant full of ai-generated slop images that have little to do with how an actual product looks like and that's something they could easily control if they wanted... but do they? Nah,…
That's also my opinion, they didn't care about non-AI generated slop either before that so why would they now?
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#65Dare I ask: who owns the IP to all the generated content? User? Google? Some complex arrangement governed by a 20-page ToS?
AFAIK and this may have changed, but at least in the US, AI-generated content is not copyrightable so it's effectively public-domain.
Copyright or not, surely there's ToS that you're expected to just click through and not read.
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#66This is depressing. We are already meat in the google ad-serving machine that tracks us, profiles us, gives us "free" stuff (gmail, anyone?) in order to feed us advertising. Now even that advertising will be AI-generated. The human is reduced to the ultimate consumption machine, to be fed stuff paid for by advertisers and generated by machines.
Personally I'm okay with that as it weakens the argument that ads are content, a dubious argument often used by ad companies.
I wonder if these ads will still be called "creatives".
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google actually doesn't give a single flying fuck about AI slop because they produce it themselves and believe AI slop will feed their quarters going forward. They sometimes pretend to care but not really. You can already stuff Google Merchant full of ai-generated slop images that have little to do with how an actual product looks like and that's something they could easily control if they wanted... but do they? Nah,…
That's also my opinion, they didn't care about non-AI generated slop either before that so why would they now?
If they cared, it would be trivial to scan for and block ads on YouTube that literally say "I am Elon Musk. Click the link below to message my assistant to start making money. This is a special message only for you." With a badly deep faked video of Elon Musk.
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#68This is depressing. We are already meat in the google ad-serving machine that tracks us, profiles us, gives us "free" stuff (gmail, anyone?) in order to feed us advertising. Now even that advertising will be AI-generated. The human is reduced to the ultimate consumption machine, to be fed stuff paid for by advertisers and generated by machines.
People can choose to not consume crap they don’t need. They won’t, but they can. Advertising is now just worthless noise to me because I generally don’t buy stuff anymore but what I need. I can’t imagine why anyone would buy most of the crap I see advertised, but they do. Halloween was a recent example: how many tons of plastic shit for costumes was shipped from China only to be thrown away the next day? How much can…
> They won’t, but they can.
That is the problem with this advice. “Can choose not to” is code to stop someone complaining. “Just don’t use it then”. It sounds equivalent to the “love it or leave it” slogan used in the 70s in America.
We don’t leave. We fight. We don’t stop using. We openly and publicly criticize
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personally I'm okay with that as it weakens the argument that ads are content, a dubious argument often used by ad companies.
I wonder if these ads will still be called "creatives".
I'm sure they will, this industry is completely delusional and out of touch with reality
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The human is reduced to the ultimate consumption machine. Question is, if the AI bros are right about a "new industrial revolution", will there be consumers to consume if all the wealth is concentrated in the top 1-2% of the population? (the owners of AI hardware and software)
I keep seeing this worry about "who will consume?!!?" This is entirely unfounded - the AI will develop its own marketplace and AI will consume. The question is, will be there anything left for humans to consume ? will we survive ?
Buy acre of land, plant potatoes, raise chicken, pay your tithe to your landlord. People will survive, for sure. Not all of them, but enough.