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!?
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
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
I’m stockpiling helium.
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.
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.
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
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?
This ad was insultingly bad. It was bad AI and not funny?
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It was an ad for '90s nostalgia I think.
Maybe AI wrote the script too…
That was the part that was most annoying to me. Even if an ad didn’t have AI graphics it would have an unoriginal and chaotic AI script.
I found it funny. In a bizarre, Wtf kind of way, but funny nonetheless.
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”
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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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
There were may many ai ads and they were fucking awful
So fucking many. When you heard they spent billions and billions on AI I didn’t know it was all for Super Bowl commercials
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.
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.
I’m more sick of the same 5 celebrities shilling every goddam thing under the sun. Damon, McConaghey, Woody Harrelson, Affleck, I’ll take shitty AI over shitty celeb endorsements every time.
That aside… that Beast Mode ‘gettin ya lick back’ ad at the end dope as shit. I don’t even know what they were advertising, but it was one of the highlights of the whole show.
As if I needed more reason to not care about the super bowl.
