Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by ro_bit 591 days ago
> The real opportunity isn't in API fees or enterprise AI. It's in something far bigger: AI-generated, personalized audio and video advertising. Think programmatic advertising, but orders of magnitude larger.

It’s hard to embrace the hype of this “opportunity” when the end goal seems downright horrific for society

1 comments

Personalized advertising! Personalized high-pressure sales! Personalized phishing! Personalized scamming! Personalized extortion! Personalized coercion!

The possibilities are as exciting as they are endless.

Before AI, could you call up 4.2 million numbers in an instant with responsive robo-agents? Could you add convincing details to your pitch based on behavioural information collected from over 100 data partners? Could you deliver a heartbreaking plea in the voice of each and every person's child?

We're not afraid to take advantage of the very latest in personalized advertising, and that's what's going to set our toothbrush subscription service apart from the rest.