I don't necessarily see why this example in particular even needed "AI." What a pointless waste of silicon.

It could be done by licensing a 50 cent stock photo (or simply stealing it, usage rights be damned, which is business as usual online anyhow) and a script to twiddle the color channels. There aren't even any logos on those peoples' clothing to update and all of the text in the background is deliberately out of focus so it's illegible and doesn't require updating for each version either.

I could knock a set of these together in Corel in about 5 minutes, with each new color combo taking 30 seconds or so.

I think the main point of interest is that about half of the crowd in the second generated picture example seems to be made up of copies of the same dude.

I will gladly boycott any company that wastes resources on this crap.

I'll keep blocking them regardless.

If an ad says my real fucking name I will disappear into the wilderness.

The current state of advertising is the same thing, but with person-generated content. Companies have been making market-specific ads for years.

I'll believe it when I see it. One of the more fun conversation topics this Thanksgiving was how ridiculously off target the targeted ads are for my family members who don't block them.

White college aged guy getting tons of ads for hair products meant for african american ladies' hair. Ads in chinese and spanish (we're all dirty US citizens with no second languages outside of what we learned through school/college). You get the picture.