On the big platforms, the ads actually have “ad” written on them somewhere or “sponsored”.
It will be harder on other sites, but not that hard. There’s an unbreakable ceiling for the ads here - they need to be readable trivially by human eyes, or they don’t work as ads.
So, you can hide or obfuscate the ad… but then it’s not a very good ad.
Cost issues aside yeah image embedding tech is really good and can already do tasks like this, LLMs with native image understanding are even better at it.
Reasons this wouldn't work are you'd really need to get it to a good enough and small enough model to run low energy use and very fast to not impact browsing. The other issue is it'll be a fixed target for a period of time so the ads could be tweaked to find how to get them through it.
I experienced this in Japan and Korea as well. There are of course, neighborhoods where noise is tolerated but while I was there I noticed most commuters whisper conversations on their phone. The thought of blasting a call or music on speakerphone is unconscionable.
Evergreen excuses for tech people desperately want to work. I get why, it would give you agency to do other things you WANT to do. I tried reviewing a colleagues agent-generated code and it was practically unreviewable. I watched him blame himself, saying he just needed to adjust a parameter. He tried everything except admit the machine does not conceptionaly understand what he was asking.
we're one more rl run from Codex not trying to satisfy the type checker by replacing an index accessor with a BFS of all the keys in the API response and matching the correct property via regex.
It's not BS though? That's what companies like Chainalysis professionally. This was covered in graphic detail as to how they caught a pedo ring in Andy Greenberg's book Tracers In The Dark.
Isn't it like claiming that breaking and entering is pointless, as you can always trace the perp through finger prints, unless they happen to wear gloves? Except in this case, most of the criminals operate from outside your jurisdiction as well.
You can tell this was written with love. Regardless of what tools were used to make this, I think we could all do more of this for the people important in our lives.
