No. No, I don’t think it will.

I don’t get how this would ever be a good idea.

I would be extremely uncomfortable seeing my face in adverts, even for products I use. I’m already uncomfortable with adverts using personal recommendations based on tracking my web history & habits.

I actively avoid those products in the future, and I can only see this alienating their marketing base further.

DirecTV’s screensavers will let a user create an AI avatar of themself by scanning a QR code on the screensaver. Afterward, they can use the avatar to browse through different AI content. Users will also reportedly be able to dress up their AI avatars, allowing Glance’s screensaver to recommend real-life products to purchase by performing a reverse-image search.

Who is gonna even willingly do this? You’re not creating a Mii to put into Wii Sports. It’s just to advertise to you.

(the company Glance, mentioned in the quote, is the company providing the AI screensaver ad technology to DirecTV)

In case you were wondering how they would get a picture of the users face…

“DirecTV’s screensavers will let a user create an AI avatar of themself by scanning a QR code on the screensaver”

Could I just use my cat’s face?

Oh, you mean the real reason there has been a push to get us to use face ID verification on every site that depends on ads?

You can fuck right off.

Bwahahahaha! I don’t even watch TV any more. Every time I wind up at my parent’s home I cannot believe the idiocy that’s on the TV. Ball game is on? They’ve made sure it’s impossible that a single frame of the feed does not show at least one advertisement, whether “splashed” over the video or covering every square inch of the location they’re broadcasting.

“Television” is officially dead to me, but I get that a lot of people still watch it. What I don’t understand is WHY they do.

I’d be more angry about this, but I just found out that DirecTV is still in business.

What better reason not to get DirecTV

I’d cut the plug off the dongle doodad and then run it over if this happened to me.

People with DirecTV will enjoy looking at my face, I guess?

I was scrolling through my LG TV’s settings not long ago and the amount of times it vampirically suggested I invite it onto my WiFi made me laugh.

No my friend, you’re my dumb TV. My laptop already doesn’t allow ads, so why would I need you to for a less navigable UI?

Your face, maybe. My face, no.

I feel a class action lawsuit incoming: “Advertisers using customers likeness in ads, without providing compensation”