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- malikNF 2y agoHe should patent the idea and block anyone else from attempting this.
- dylan604 2y agoToo late. Prior art already exists. Top of my head would be Black Mirror.
- pseudalopex 2y agoThis is satire. Twitter does not show replies to people who are not logged in.
- DoubleDerper 2y agoFor now.
- swah 2y ago"For nearly a year, Soren has been making unhinged interfaces daily." https://canyouimagine.lol/ https://canyouimagine.lol/
- iamleppert 2y agoLove it!
- scotty79 2y agoThey could require you to smile, you know?
- abeppu 2y ago"In Soviet Russia, ad watches you."
- globalnode 2y agoi very much like this
- willis936 2y ago*Capitalist America
- troupo 2y agoI highly recommend Soren's tweet feed. His ideas are often so close to "yup, this will be in the app sooner than later" or "creepy but great" that I was fooled a few times thinking this was an actual feature of an app/site
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- Ajay-p 2y agoMaybe this is unrelated but I refuse to do facial ID, or any type of facial verification. I don't want my phone, or any device that I am using, to record or analyze my features. Maybe that is nit picking a little but I am uncomfortable with all of it.
- wanderingstan 2y agoThe problem is that the face is critical to “normal” interactions. Thus the ChatGPT demo of using the camera to determine if you are speaking to it (or to someone else) to choose whether to respond. If talking with AI becomes more mainstream, face detection will (at first) make the experience better.
- shmeeed 2y agoYou are not alone. And the day some manufacturer's database with 1.8 billion sets of facial data is going to get hacked and exposed, I'll feel pretty smug about it.
- ryaneager 2y agoExcept for the fact that Face ID is completely on device in the secure enclave and not even Apple can access the data stored there soooooo…..
- shmeeed 2y agoThat's sure cool for Face ID. Now all that's missing is the same level of faith in all the rest.
- dwighttk 2y agoWho has ~1.8 billion centrally stored faces?
- vundercind 2y agoSome retailers are probably not far off.
- ashleyn 2y agoPlease drink verification can
- miles 2y agoJust in case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36542487 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36542487
- shmeeed 2y agoAs usual, Twitter won't allow me to read the corresponding thread. I desperately need for somebody to confirm to me that this is satire. TIA
- furyofantares 2y agoIt is, this guy makes these excellent fake ridiculous product screenshots daily.
- lawrenci 2y agoI'm so tired of hearing business people talk about how Elon laid off 80% of engineers at Twitter and "it still works!" It doesn't work well. X is a buggy mess, and a way worse user experience than Twitter was prior to Elon. For the past several weeks, threads have failed to load whenever I click into a Tweet.
- dwighttk 2y agoThis is designed to encourage you to login
- pseudalopex 2y agoHiding replies from people not logged in was intentional.
- Filligree 2y agoX has replies? I thought they shut that off.
- lawrenci 2y agoI am logged in, but for the past few weeks, replies won't load and I get an error message on my iPhone. The whole website is much slower too. I'm sure someone will tell me to use the app, but I don't have any intention to do so.
- coldpie 2y ago
- toddmorey 2y agoSoren is so good at these “doodles” of UI gone wrong. He had one for a zoom call that positions you in the frame based on your real world height.
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- wanderingstan 2y agoFirst encountered this idea in an old Black Mirror episode: https://youtu.be/Fj8-r30sSn0?si=FKr4OUTezm6YACqQ https://youtu.be/Fj8-r30sSn0?si=FKr4OUTezm6YACqQ Seems like something there’d be a lot of resistance to, but on the other hand inevitable. Is there a site to place bets on when certain levels of enshitification will be reached? (Only half joking.)
- bitwize 2y agoYour contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to watch the spots. You are going to watch the spots.
- gHA5 2y agoMCDONALD'S!
- sva_ 2y agoFor those unaware, OP is referring to Sony patent US8246454B2 which describes a system in which people can skip ads by e.g. shouting out the brand name of the ad.
- future10se 2y agohttps://i.imgur.com/OPbRxhK.png https://i.imgur.com/OPbRxhK.png I love (hate) that the figure in the illustration stands up with his arms raised. I wonder what the artist was thinking...
- latexr 2y agoI have always felt uneasy about that too. I think it’s because the next (and final) panel looks exactly like the first. It’s the implication that you’ll have to do something so over the top as getting up, raising your arms, and shouting a brand name, then resuming what you were doing as it that were completely normal.
- wait_a_minute 2y agoYou have to show exuberance when demonstrating your brand loyalty, otherwise you’re not loyal enough to pass the ad. You’ll need to watch the entire reeducation, I mean ad, in that case.
- why_at 2y agoUnrelated, but what's the best way to read a thread when somebody posts a twitter link like this? I've never really used Twitter but it seems like there's no way to tell if there are any relevant replies or anything more than just this one image unless you login. I used to use threadreaderapp but now it seems like they are asking for a login too :/
- pseudalopex 2y agoSome Nitter instances remain. I don't know how. Replies clarify it's satire.
- yellowsir 2y agonitter was awesome but since x, i just ignore the twitter void ... https://nitter.cz/ https://nitter.cz/
- Sophira 2y agoAs that site states, public Nitter instances are no longer viable.
- mmphosis 2y agoSomething went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot. Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com Not to single out twitter because a lot of web sites simply appear as a blank page. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess? But if you must: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances At the moment, this worked for me: https://xcancel.com/soren_iverson/status/1801253187602788424?mx=2&failedScript=vendor https://xcancel.com/soren_iverson/status/1801253187602788424...
- coldpie 2y agoI just move on to something else. Twitter's not worth the time/hassle.
- D13Fd 2y ago
- skilled 2y agoNot going to lie… this got me. Crazy world we live in where something like this seems plausible.
- edflsafoiewq 2y agoIUREO Anti-Ad FAKE EYE Mask - Fake eyes tricks eye-contact ad detect! - Black - 100% Polyester - Cool and comfortable ad-watching mask ad-block eye cover mask never see ads again mask - $2.99 on Temu
- runjake 2y agoI thought this was a clever joke comment, but I googled and this product actually exists. I am stunned.
- ffhhj 2y agoliving la dystopia
- paulmd 2y agoa few years ago I read an observation that Amazon is basically a hyperwebster for physical goods. If you can name a specific goal and think some product would do it for you, you simply type it into Amazon and by the time you press 'enter' a million monkeys on a million typewriters have already listed it for you. Your eschatrons immanentized in 48 hours or we offer you a $3 digital voucher, guaranteed. And the "keyboard smashings" school of brand naming only makes this more pointed...
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- PUSH_AX 2y agoIt's like that episode of the Simpsons where Homer is trying to sleep while on the jury, using fake eye glasses.
- pyrolistical 2y agoNext add social shaming. “You got an extended ad because your friend Bob has an ad blocker installed”
- renegat0x0 2y agoGoogle be like 'dont steal our ideas'
- hamasho 2y agoThis might be satire, but I'm genuinely surprised that clicking the ad links is not yet mandatory to keep using services.
- pseudalopex 2y agoAdvertisers use click through rate to measure ad effectiveness.
- squarefoot 2y agoThat is the reason they went absolutely crazy when adnauseam was introduced, as it used a different approach: it didn't block ads but loaded them in an invisible way, then "clicked" them randomly so that although the user wasn't pestered by ads, advertisers would get completely bogus click through data. https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam
- kjkjadksj 2y agoIsn't that good for their numbers though? I would imagine there are some advertisers who are buying out their own bots to juice click through rate. Why not? Incentives are high, disincentives are a slap on the wrist if you manage to even prove anything at all.
- Mordisquitos 2y agoWhat would be the incentive for an advertiser to spend money on bots to juice the click-through rate of their ads? More ad-clicks mean more money spent on ad networks, and bots are notoriously stingy customers, all the more so if they are your own.
- kjkjadksj 2y agoTo fool the client into thinking the ad spend does anything
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- bmitc 2y agoI've noticed that since the beginning of this year, YouTube has gotten very aggressive with ads, including more and more ads and multiple unskippable ads. And then they treat you like an idiot with a little popup that says "What to learn more about how to get rid of ads?", which just takes you to the YouTube Premium product, which is nothing but a premium for Google. Amazon Prime has also started adding unskippable ads.
- everdrive 2y agoThe hour's getting late for being able to easily avoid this sort of bullshit. It's time to gather what you can, save it locally, and then shift to physical media. DVDs, books, etc.
- bmitc 2y agoYea, I've been looking into what to do. I'm tired of subscription fees for one, although Spotify has remained sane. But I absolutely refuse to pay trillion dollar corporations more money, who already steal my data, just to get rid of ads. If they kept them reasonable, it'd be fine. But nearly all of the UX/UI additions are not to make the experience better but to make you click more videos and ads. There are even times that you can't even see the last few seconds of a video because it pops up clickable things that can't be disabled.
- jzb 2y agoIsn't Spotify about to raise its fees again for the second time in about two years? I dropped it a while back after the whole podcast push. Not (solely) because I'm not a fan of the people they chose to fund, but because they penny pinch on music royalties but wanted to shower podcasters with money -- I signed up for music, not podcasts! Spotify was easy (for me) to replace: I have a huge music collection already. YouTube would be tougher because I mostly rely on it for video clips I wouldn't be able to find elsewhere, except maybe Archive.org.
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- xutopia 2y agoThis is a joke of course... but it won't be one day.
- michaelt 2y agoDo note that this twitter account is posting fake screenshots of product ideas. Other posts include "Google Meet option to punish interrupters by sending them to meeting jail" "iOS camera lock if you record too much concert footage" and "Spotify feature to lock Christmas music until after Thanksgiving"
- trickstra 2y ago> "Google Meet option to punish interrupters by sending them to meeting jail" okay but I need that!
- Izkata 2y agoZoom has had it for ages, it's called the waiting room.
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- hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago"Fake"? That's a disingenuous judgement. They're conceptual art.
- delichon 2y agoFakeness doesn't degrade art. Art elevates fakeness.
- AdamH12113 2y agoHalf of Soren Iverson's joke features are depressingly plausible and the other half are completely implausible but more compelling than any real "AI" product I've ever heard of.
- AmericanChopper 2y ago> Uber option to let me drive I'd like this one. I've had quite a few trips where I asked the driver (Grab/Gojek, not Uber) if I could take over, and they pretty much always don't have an issue with it. Would have been nice to get a discount for it.
- riffic 2y agocan we not give the builders of the Torment Nexus any further ideas?
- itsafarqueue 2y agoTruly wonderful that this reads both ways
- riffic 2y agoit's a duck-rabbit and I'm not seeing the other way to read this, mind helping me out?
- EvanAnderson 2y ago> can we not give the builders of the Torment Nexus any further ideas? A - Please refrain from giving the builders of the Torment Nexus any further ideas. B - Are we able to stop giving the builders of the Torment Nexus any further ideas?
- riffic 2y agoah thanks, I was definitely thinking in terms of A but my subconscious may have also been running with B.
- throwaway14356 2y agoplease upload a picture of ur mum.
- trickstra 2y agoblack mirror s01e02
- oh_gosh 2y agoReminds me of the "Please drink a verification can" joke about Xbox's webcam peripheral a while back.
- ThrowawayTestr 2y agoNever has a joke been so prophetic
- ryandrake 2y agoI would be willing to bet money that there are software engineers, maybe even current HN readers in this article, who are hard at work actually trying to build a Please Drink Verification Can like system in reality.
- 4878241143 2y agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/greentext/comments/mlfkup/please_drink_a_verification_can/#lightbox https://www.reddit.com/r/greentext/comments/mlfkup/please_dr...
- tamimio 2y agoI like this more https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/fj24w7/sony_was_granted_a_patent_to_make_a_tv_that_will/ https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/fj24w7/sony_...
- micromacrofoot 2y agoor Sony's patent on interactive ads — "say McDonalds to end commercial" https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sony-patent-mcdonalds/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sony-patent-mcdonalds/
- amelius 2y agoShow McDonalds tattoo to end commercial.
- yellow_postit 2y agoThere are multiple startups in this space and Movie Pass threatened this “feature” a couple years ago. So while a great joke account, the reality may not be far off.
- drowntoge 2y agoGiven the current rabid state of tech, I think we're only a couple of years away from seeing the first real examples of this. The messaging will probably be a bit different, incentivizing continuous eye contact rather than penalizing looking away: "Keep your eyes on to watch just one sponsored content instead of two!" (Which of course, boils down to the exact same thing.)
- alamortsubite 2y agoIt was the next day brothers, and I truly had done my best morning and afternoon to play it their way and sit like a horrorshow cooperative malchick in the chair of torture while they flashed nasty bits of ultraviolence on the screen.
- fuzzfactor 2y agoVery few Americans have much familiarity with Russian language at all. When this was written during Soviet times, and the Hollywood movie made, it was far fewer, so mostly people did not get the connection whatsoever. If you ask a Russian how they are doing, if they are doing well they respond positively with a word that sounds just like "horrorshow". No differently than they did under the Tzars, Lenin and Stalin. Everything behind the "iron curtain" always been completely horrorshow, as much as it could be.
- alamortsubite 2y agoThis is interesting, and makes me wonder how they translated "horrorshow" in the Russian edition of the book. The Wikipedia entry on Nadsat touches on its translation briefly at the end of the Description section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadsat#Description https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadsat#Description
- runjake 2y agoAs others have said, this is a dystopian joke which will likely become a thing, eventually. But, it's a good reminder to review app privacy settings on your device. Stuff like YouTube probably shouldn't have regular access to your camera. For iPhones/iPads: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-built-in-privacy-and-security-protections-iph6e7d349d1/ios https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-built-in-privacy-...
- nerdponx 2y agoThis is less likely to happen on a device that you control, than on a device that you do not control, but nevertheless depend on.
- amelius 2y agoI mean, would you allow a remote salesperson to use your camera and command you to do silly things? Then why would you allow an AI to do the same?
- throwaway14356 2y agojob interview stage one, virtual aerobics. Get set...
- FrustratedMonky 2y agoEntire Black Mirror episode on this. Is this real? Joke? Asking because this similar idea has been popping up in last few weeks, and wondering if someone is really trying to do it.
- latexr 2y agoIt’s a joke, the author’s account is essentially a string of ideas like this. Most are more ridiculous than this.
- Animats 2y agoIt may be a joke now, but someone will probably implement it. Has anyone proposed this to YC yet? It's about the right size for a YC startup.
- TheLoafOfBread 2y agoFirst thing which I do with almost all my devices - put black insulation tape on the webcam.
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- ein0p 2y ago10 years later: please maintain eye contact with this government approved news broadcast to receive approval for purchasing cricket meal with your CBDC currency.
- jmorenoamor 2y agoI'old enough to just stop using anything that tries to do this. But I feel bad for next generations.
- noprocrasted 2y agoThe problem is that so much of our popular culture and social fabric has now been consumed and locked within such a disgusting business model.
- weinzierl 2y agoSomewhere (probably California), somewhen (probably already a couple of years ago) there must have been a meeting where a bunch of people (possibly some in suits, some certainly not) discussed the question (in total seriousness) what consequences a feature like this could potentially have. While - obviously - the majority must have concluded to pass, I can only image that probably one or two could have rooted for it.
- galacticaactual 2y agoIt’s funny that HN readers believe that “people in suits” think of features like this. It’s literally just all of you.
- kjkjadksj 2y agoTo be fair its mostly the consultants who are brought in to figure out how to squeeze more blood from the stone. People in the trenches often aren't given the time to be so imaginative.
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- btbuildem 2y agoThat was a thing in a Black Mirror episode, I'm pretty sure
- m4tthumphrey 2y agoThis featured in one of the early episodes of Black Mirror and is still in the top 3 for how regularly I think about it happening in real life.
- aidenn0 2y agoEpisode was Fifteen Million Merits [1], and might be the most cynical episode of Black Mirror, which is saying something. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits
- tombert 2y agoYeah, the ending of that episode is one of the most depressing out of the entire series (though I haven't watched the last season yet). The fact that even the "fuck you!" becomes commoditized and fake like everything else in the universe kind of upset me upon my first watch. It's probably my favorite episode of the entire series.
- Tao3300 2y agoI know this is fake, but if I ever see this, I'll find out where it came from. Then I'll break the device I see it on. Then I'll go to where it came from, and I'll ask them who told them to do that. Then I'll set the building on fire. Repeat until my demise or incidental coup. I will go full Liam Neeson in Taken over this, and I implore you to pledge the same for the love of everything.
- taylorius 2y agoBlack Mirror did that a few years back I think - 20 Million merits, or whatever it was called.
- will1am 2y agoThat would be really creepy..
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- adolph 2y agoIts like Clockwork Orange's Ludovico Technique meets Dune's Test of Humanity. https://thetiredinsomniac.wordpress.com/2019/03/04/the-horror-behind-a-clockwork-orange/ https://thetiredinsomniac.wordpress.com/2019/03/04/the-horro... https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Gom_Jabbar https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Gom_Jabbar
- tennisflyi 2y agoIt's definitely coming though
- asdz 2y agosome people don't get the 'humour' behind the fake ad
- M95D 2y agoWe're not yet there, but wearing hijab/niqaab/burqa or whaterver it's called, including by men, seems the only way forward.
- ZaraHabib 2y ago[dead]