Comment by miltonlost
1 year ago
"buy this shit" and "use this shit we made" is still an advert. Just because the person receiving the advert doesn't pay for the product themselves via cash and instead is paying via their personal data doesn't mean the post is not advertisement.
The post is literally advertising MetaAI's product??? Do you know what an advert's definition is?
When I saw the original link on bluesky, I didn't have time to look into it, I had assumed it was something like a post where a sponsor had paid meta to show a user a picture of said user in one of their adverts. Ie meta was being paid to whore out your likeness.
> Do you know what an advert's definition is?
according to this: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/advertisement its not.
Look, I don't like meta any more than you do. But this is a service that is provided by them. Its not an advert, meta aren't making money from generating that user's likeness, or any other.
I don't like GenAI, its going to ruin an industry I love, one I wanted to return to. When the bubble pops, its probably going to make me loose my job too. But this isn't an advert.