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> Eventually, this arms race ends with a computer vision model that looks at the screen, classifies visual elements as ads, and draws a rectangle over anything
by plutokras 2mo ago
> Eventually, this arms race ends with a computer vision model that looks at the screen, classifies visual elements as ads, and draws a rectangle over anything that looks like an ad.
That would be a killer feature for AR glasses. Imagine no billboards, no political posters, no neon storefront clutter.
- cybrox 2mo agoAnd you can get all that for the low price of just $199/mon on your new glasses subscription!
- JoshTriplett 2mo ago> That would be a killer feature for AR glasses. Imagine no billboards, no political posters, no neon storefront clutter. ...people invisible to you by wrapping themselves in a banner-ad cape... (Actual plot device in a science fiction book.)
- grumbelbart2 2mo agoOh, which book if you don't mind sharing?
- aembleton 2mo agoOr even someone wearing a Nike branded baseball cap, hoodie, trousers and trainers.
- MagicMoonlight 2mo ago[dead]
- kikokikokiko 2mo agoAnd some people appearing like flesh exposed monsters with ping pong balls for eyes
- tripzilch 2mo agoThis always happens when I'm out of gum
- pipe2devnull 2mo agoThat’s mostly what Vermont is like
- wildrhythms 2mo agoThey Live (1988)
- Terr_ 2mo ago> Imagine no billboards Washington State has a ~1960s law which I think was pretty clever: Highway advertisements can only be for things someone driving by can actually on the premises under the sign. That prevents the typical chains of billboards while making it pretty straightforward for actual stores. The law will probably need revision if/when someone tries to skirt it by putting in billboards with an attached symbolic vending-machine.