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.

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.

*slop

Only difference, is they had good ads and not just insert a celebrity ads.

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?

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"

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

stares at you blankly with red eyes

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 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.

Both advertising AND AI should be abolished.

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.

Ugh what was that

Maybe AI wrote the script too...

I found it funny. In a bizarre, Wtf kind of way, but funny nonetheless.

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.

Hold on... What if those 5 celebrities have been AI this whole time...? 🤔

What about Hart. I see him everywhere. Haven't seen Harrelson or Affleck.

There were a lot of ads for AI companies and plenty of ads that also used AI to make their content, so both

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.

cgi cost more money since it requires people to sorta design it, so AI

And ads for AI 🤮

The mute button seemed to work just as well on AI ads as it does on normal ads.