My roommates only watched it for the ads and their first comment was about all the AI crap. They were completely disappointed and disgusted by the whole Super Bowl, except for Bad Bunny.
I’m not American so I’m not very invested in the sport, I’ve never watched an event. But even I have watched some of the ads and half-time shows (in fact this is the second time I watched a half-time show, first time was Kendrick Lamar because I already knew I liked his music and he included his “Drake is a fucking pedo” song, which was a baller move on his part).
And even I know, you don’t fuck with the superbowl ads. They have to be awesome, because that literally gets those people watching who don’t even care about the sport. Fucking hell I’ve voluntarily watched the Doritos x Mountain Dew ad with Peter Dinklage and Morgan Freeman at least 20 times lol (at least the song part)
It costs so much money to get an ad spot there and you’re guaranteed millions upon millions of views. Make it fucking count.
I’m probably going to look up and watch the Guy Fieri commercial. That was the only they said was good.
As far as the sport/game, mostly everyone outside of Massachusetts liked the result.
The funniest thing about this is that using AI slop for Superbowl ads is actually peak capitalism. The cost of the ad space itself dwarfs the cost for producing the ads, with AI or not. But the worthless MBAs driving this just can’t help themselves.
Having commercials as a tradition is peak capitalism.
Super Bowl commercials are a beloved tradition
I don’t have as much faith in AI. The manpower cost to have the team keep feeding prompts till it came out with something useful and then the energy bill to generate all the duds probably cost 100x more than it would have to hire writers, actors, editors, a director, and a crew to build sets.
they probably use AI to make the ai prompts.
*slop
As if I needed more reason to not care about the super bowl.
The bowl I smoked in my garage was more super than that game
depends on what you want from a game. fans of good defense saw something beautiful. miraculous. they saw a team just outright bully another for an entire hour. the other team also faced incredible defense, they just overcame it enough to put enough points on the board to win.
that said.
i hate that all of this knowlege of the game still lives within me when the whole sport is structured around everyone trying to be chill about continuous brain damage
I loved every minute on the field and still like watching the game, but the NFL is a terrible organization and if I had kids I don’t think I’d want them subject to all the concussions I got over the years.
Yeah. I loved playing football, but knowing what I do now I have a very different perspective on the game. I was very good, and probably could have gotten a full-ride scholarship prettu easily if I hadn’t quit for stupid reasons, but now I think my juvenile self may have accidentally made a great call.
I’m just happy the Pats were exposed as the frauds they were. A lucky team with the 3rd easiest DVOA schedule in NFL history.
stares at you blankly with red eyes
I’m personally embarrassed by the fact that every time I see one of those players wearing the pillow over their helmet I just think about how bad it looks.
we need a new freak show
Speaking of cte!: did you see that new helmet shape on one of the Patriots’ o line? I really hope it helps, because holy crap did it look goofy AF!
i noticed a padded overhelmet, which players are allowed to opt for. i also noticed some outershell features you didn’t used to see prior to Virginia Tech’s STAR system
I wondered what that helmet covering was on some players, yet not enough to actively search for it.
Cheers for the info
it’s been shown to be shockingly effective at reducing injuries while having the only downside of looking hella dumb. but i’m sure that was the attitude to leatherheads and helmets at some point, too
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I suppose it’s heartening that the more we’re forced to see AI slop, the more people seem to hate it.
It’s kind of ugly and not exactly confidence inspiring, since everything they are putting out there the potential customers know how to make the same thing.
I saw an AI ad where they made three AI generated ‘testimonials’. So this told me that not only could they fail to find even three actual customers to just say the words they wanted, they couldn’t even dig up three actors or even three random employees to say the words. How pathetic must your offering be if you can’t get even a handful of real humans to at least lie for it?
potential customers know how to make the same thing
This is 100% why I stay away from it. LLM’s are just a incremental race to the middle, to the generic. Who wants their work product to be exactly the same as everyone else’s?
Is it ads for AI or CGI with AI?
There were a lot of ads for AI companies and plenty of ads that also used AI to make their content, so both
I was grossed out by it. They don’t realize people hate them.
cgi cost more money since it requires people to sorta design it, so AI
According to the article it was ads for AI companies. I didn’t watch it but my guess is they were probably using AI to make the ads.
Also the Olympics had AI generated clips in their opening ceremony, Pandora’s box has been opened unfortunately.
That opening video of the Olympics was disgusting, how they could approve it to show “Italian excellence in design”???
Btw I find hilarious that openai themselves used traditional methods to make their codex ad while everyone else is using the slop generators “we can save $5000 if we bruteforce our way with thousands of prompts”
It felt like half the ads were either fully AI generated, used AI slop or were for an AI slop factory company. It turned the game tonight into “which ads aren’t AI slop” for me.
I cannot fucking wait for this bubble to burst
Even the traditional ads with big name actors had seriously weird uncanny valley faces.
This was the worst Superbowl for ads IMO. They’ve been trash for years, buy this was a new low.
Except after this bubble bursts they will bail these companies out with tax dollars.
Gold thing I own gold and am not American
I’m stockpiling helium.
Point is the AI will still be around. Your taxes will just end up subsidizing the US borrowing, as they buy treasuries to buttress their own currencies that are not trusted on their own, because you, like the rest of us, have the wrong people in charge. No matter where you are, we have the wrong people in charge, whether the absolute worst (yet,) or not.
We have a system across the west, of socialized recessions, and privatized gains/profits.
Why do you think more and more countries are transitioning trade with the US to other countries?
It’s not just Trump. Not many countries want to subsidize your AI bullshit.
It’s being forced in us just as much as on you
It really reminded me of the Super Bowl back in 2000 when all the ads were for websites, which was right before the “Dot Com” bubble burst…
Only difference, is they had good ads and not just insert a celebrity ads.
Fuck celebrities. When did they become so money hungry and do ads for anything. Kevin Hart is the worst he’ll do an ad for anything.
Shaq does this too.
I heard you like ads
the site may be shady idk click at your own risk
img for those that don't want to click it
With ublock origin enabled btw:
There were a couple good ones. The prostate cancer one caught me off guard and at least got a chuckle out of me
it’s refreshing that i’ve seen exactly one post about the sportsball game, and it’s not even about the sportsball, but about how people are sick of shit to do with advertising
Usually the only way I know the game is on is the increased owl love in my feed.
Go Seagulls!
I’m just glad they beat the New England Pedants. Or is it the New England Pedophiles, that would make more sense considering.
Nothing about Bad Bunny? Really!?
My family doesn’t GAF about the Super Bowl
And you felt this was important enough to comment here to let all of us know?
Yep, I thought maybe others felt the same. I guess I’ll run my opinions by you next time
The point was the title is “NFL Fans” to be sick of AI ads. Are you an NFL fan? Is your family an NFL fan?
Do you go into threads about a video game or a movie and just say “I don’t care about this stuff”?
Don’t sweat it, they’re probably a bitter, hungover Patriots fan. Aka a Patriots fan.
Nah, Bills fan. I had a great time watching the frauds get exposed.
don’t sweat it ivanafterall is an AI idiot.
At least they made it to post season.
You wanna talk about frauds? I’m a cowboys fan. We are the one true fraud.
But the Seahawks drafted, traded, and brought back the griffin brothers who played at my alma mater. Seemed as good a reason as any to root for them
Watched on my DVR over an hour after the game started so I could fast forward through all the ads.
But the game is designed around ads. Imagine paying $5000 for tickets to watch people stand around every 30 seconds.
I also waited an hour but I still had to go live by the start of the fourth quarter. And then being stuck watching the ads was excruciating.
“Ads are coming to AI”
What an absolutely terrifying statement. Advertising should be abolished.
I abolished it almost entirely from my life since I was about 10 years old. Have spent most of my media consumption on the internet with adblock. I honestly think it made me smarter. Not, in like a book smart way. But just having a better sense of reality.
The Superbowl is one of the only times I see ads every year. It just shocks me. Not that “ads work on people” but that people don’t just go read a book or rent a dvd instead. Like, they are so fucking awful and ruin any watching experience.
Its amazing that there is a large portion of the population that literally spends 10%-20% of their media time watch ads.
I enabled an ad blocking VPN on my wife’s phone but it interfered with a streaming app so she disabled it. Sometimes she asks me to check her phone for the next step in a recipe or something, and the webpage has an ad at the top and at the bottom and the display is two thirds advertisement but she just says “it doesn’t bother me.” I don’t understand how people live like this.
I can kinda get that. I probably see more ads than I think I do. Self adblock from your brain.
I don’t know if it’s my spectrum brain or if this happens to other people. But I realized that I have literally mistlenly trained my brain to ignore REALLY OBVIOUS warning signs because they basically are designed the same as ads.
I’m the idiot trying to figure out why something isn’t working with the big sign next to me telling me why.
Small tiny text sign in black on white. Well, that looks important. I’ll read that. Big red bold and underlined sign. Can’t fucking see it.
I use several different types of ad blocker for my phone and computer, and all of my television is done through a series of ad free ways that were kind of a pain to learn and manage, but are all free.
I get physically angry when I see ads. It is insane to me that people so willingly let that stuff be shit into their brains constantly.
I FINALLY convinced my wife to use Firefox with uBlock on their phone. We had a YouTube Premium trial for something (I think so we could play some vids at a party without ads) and they loved not seeing the ads. I kept telling them “you know, if you use Firefox in your phone with the uBlock extension to watch YouTube instead of the YouTube app you just won’t get any ads, right? Also it can play videos while the phone is locked.” This finally convinced them to try it for their podcasts.
I honestly think it made me smarter. Not, in like a book smart way. But just having a better sense of reality.
that people don’t just go […] rent a dvd instead.
Superb sense of reality, grandpa.
I want you to go search “Redbox near me” on Google. If you’re in a major city there will be a bunch.
Also, I wasn’t saying that people use DVDs. But, if I wasn’t pirating I’d consider it over watching ads.
Didn’t Redbox die like a year or 2 ago? The company went bankrupt and just abandoned all the machines and some people were strategically acquiring them.
I want you to go search “is Redbox still in business?”
They’re still operating them mate. Doesn’t matter if they’re all universally owned.
But, holy shit, this wasn’t even my point. It was about owning something! I used DVD to refer to owning physical media instead of watching a movie while paying for a subscription and watching ads at the same time.
Pirate your media, buy DVDs at thrift stores or Facebook marketplace, or whatever. That was my point. It’s amazing to me that people pay for cable and pay for streaming services and still watch ads.
rent a dvd instead
Holy shit the level of autism in you. I can’t compete.
I’m autistic too, but I fall for this a lot trying to explain to other autistic people that don’t understand. You are being an asshole when you take every sentence someone says literally. Especially, in the context of a completely different point someone is trying to make.
I said to rent a dvd. In the context of the post that is a suggestion to get media in different ways.
You can pirate shit, you can go to the library (some have HUGE selections for free), etc. That was the INTENTION of that sentence. A neuro typical person would understand this. Hell, most autistic people would understand this. But you sure are going on another level to purposely misunderstand the point of my comment.
Both advertising AND AI should be abolished.
Generative AI should be abolished. Transformative AI and other machine learning technologies are genuinely useful and cool
I wish the general populace was educated enough to willfully ignore it, rather than legislate. This stuff should obviously die.
Isn’t that the same every year though? You’ve got all the dumbest, drunkest eyeballs watching, time to roll out the biggest scams.
Well there was a time that the Super Bowl ads were fun and inventive because it was their time to shine but I suppose we’re well past that at this point.
It was horrible. Next year im doing my original plan and going skiing. Best ski day because it’s empty. Way better use of my time
I’m not a big sports fan so I can’t believe I’d ever choose the Superbowl over anything. I think I’d rather fold my laundry. Creating custom backgrounds for a 1994 mah jong DOS game feels like a better use of time. But, if you enjoy the game with friends and/or family then it’s probably not a bad use of time.
I don’t like sports in the slightest, but I watch the superbowl every year with my dad or his family. He made porkchops this year. They were pretty good
