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LearnedHand

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2. I thought my BS detector was fairly sophisticated

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Sat May 16, 2026, 11:19 AM

Yesterday

But clearly not. This is so cynically discouraging. I always knew advertisers considered humans to be enemies who needed conquering, but this is a battlefield of which I was unaware.

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New York magazine - 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise [View all] IcyPeas Yesterday OP

Of course generative AI enables this sort of thing. And I found the last paragraph of the article chilling, highplainsdem Yesterday #1

That leapt out at me too LearnedHand Yesterday #3

+1 dalton99a Yesterday #7

I thought my BS detector was fairly sophisticated LearnedHand Yesterday #2

I guess... LakeVermilion Yesterday #4

And add to your reading list that Reuters article about how scammy Meta/FB is, knowingly and purposely. RockRaven Yesterday #5

The scale of the fraud .... IcyPeas Yesterday #9

Kick dalton99a Yesterday #6

Only NOW people are waking up to the fact GenThePerservering Yesterday #8

Radio, television, films, magazines, newspapers...all advertising, all the time. pecosbob Yesterday #10